Desperate times call for desperate measures. With all eyes on the VP debate, focused specifically on Sarah Palin, how can the McCain Campaign possibly deflect attention from her performance? By manufacturing controversy and playing the Race card.
By now it really shouldn't come as a surprise.
Oooooo Drudge. When I saw your headline linking to an Obama Camp video of kids singing title "Obama kids sing for dear leader", I thought you couldn't out do yourself this week. Of course you did, but hey, your an asshole.
Check the front page of Drudge right now.
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Yup. BLATANTLY PRE-SPINNING THE DEBATE AS RACIAL CHARGED AND/OR MOTIVATED. THIS IS BULLSHIT.
The McCain Campaign is saying they had no idea that Ifill's book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,"(Not 'Age of Obama' Drudge), was going to be published.
This from the GRETAWIRE on Fox
I confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill's book (I think I told them when I made my efforts - emails about midnight - to find out!) I am stunned....the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair - in law, this would create a mistrial.
BULLSHIT.
As Judd Legum points out over at Huffpo,
If that's true, it just shows the McCain campaign's incompetence. The debate moderators were agreed to on August 6. Ifill's book was reported in the Associated Press two weeks earlier:
First off, Ifill is a class act, and unlike Fox News Corporate policy would never inject a political agenda into her journalism.
Next, just like with the impulsive Palin choice, You buy it, you own it. If you have a problem, the appropriate time to bring that up is before you buy. You don't get to keep a car for 3 months then bring it back expecting a full refund because one day you checked under the hood and didn't like what you saw.
Finally, this needs to be exposed for what it is: race baiting. The McCain camp WILL thru talk radio and fox noise infect the the discourse just enough to put doubt in the "semi-comatose" undecideds head that Sarah Palin will get treated unfairly in the debate.
I SAY SHENANIGANS, CALL THIS OUT FOR WHAT IT IS, BULLSHIT RACE BAITING.
PS. Ifill broke her ankle this week. I wish her a speedy recovery so she can hopefully put a foot in Matt Drudge's ass.