I'm about to go renew my license plate tabs. Wish me luck.
A quick note before I leave: at this point, it seems pretty clear that the media is steadfast in its refusal to cover Obama's response ad connecting McCain with Bush.
Because they won't play it, I'm going to repost it here:
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I haven't watched much cable news today, but I did skim through the first 75 minutes of "Morning Joe" and I just saw the first half of "Race to the White House."
Not surprisingly, there was virtually no mention of Obama's response ad, but they are still playing John McCain's Paris Hilton porno queen ad.
On Morning Joe, they did play Obama's ad once -- an hour after first playing McCain's ad. Four minutes after playing the Obama ad -- they played the McCain ad again.
On David Gregory's show, they just played the McCain ad again, and have spent the entire show so far discussing McCain's attacks on Obama. Not a single mention of Obama's response ad which tied Bush to McCain.
I don't think there is any reasonable explanation for this failure. They would defend it by saying that the injection of race by McCain into the campaign is more newsworthy, but the fact is that McCain's flacks merely raised that issue to distract attention from Obama's ad. The statement they were allegedly offended by is something that Barack has said, practically verbatim, for months now. Nothing new there at all.
Yet like a moth to light, the media heads straight for the McCain campaign talking points. What a bunch of tools.
© Jed Lewison