I was just watching the “Sedona Surprises” video from McCain’s daughter. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but I am shook. I guess because I’m a naive asshole.
It’s not on par with Katrina, and I don’t mean to suggest that it is, but it sounds to me a similar tone (though, obviously, much less devistatingly). The thing I took away from Katrina, that I cannot get over, that I cannot let go of, that I cannot forget long enough to ever settle back into the same mindset I had before it hit, is that we are on our own out here–we cannot depend on our government to save us and, in fact, our government can and does turn its back on us, knowing that the rest of the country will come to believe that we have somehow brought this abandonment on ourselves.
Watching the McCain video, watching the “press” corps going to John McCain’s ranch and eating his food and sitting in his big comfy chairs and getting drunk and swinging in his fucking tire swing and laughing away like they’re all best buddies. I mean fucking Politico buying Cindy McCain flowers?
Fuck you, assholes.
While the rest of the country struggles to pay for food and gas and their houses, while manufacturing jobs dry up, while we’re playing “Shall we or shan’t we fight Russia?” and while we’re out here trying to get enough information to make sound judgments about who should run our country, you’re busy playing “Picnic with Our Next President”?!
Fuck you, you fucking fucks.
I watched this whole thing, all the footage of the press corps who are supposed to be my eyes and ears on the campaign trail instead playing party time with the popular kids and I about wanted to vomit. If this is what the MSM does, then good riddance.
It just pissed me off. i mean, it’s one of those things you know is true, but to see it there in front of you, repeatable on YouTube over and over and over again is just galling. Is there no professional decorum at all?
So, yeah, it’s a good thing we have the internet, so you can find stuff out for yourself. Because it’s not like you can trust these people to bring you the truth.
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Amen.
The McCains put that together deliberately? For us to see that their daughter is a vapid airhead who OMG Loves Road Trips to their ranch with the live-in servants while the rest of the country can’t even afford to drive off on vacation? B, I’m not ignoring the point you’re trying to make, which I think is valid. But I’m even more shocked that they think this makes their daughter look good. The tone-deafness coming from that corner is horrifying.
NM, yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I completely agree.
wow, ya know, OMG!!!!! — I love road trips TOO… oh wow, and ribs… we must be like sisters! She has an iPod? Me too! OMG!
But sadly, here’s the thing:
I can’t take road trips because gas is TOO FUCKING EXPENSIVE
Ribs? I have to settle for hot dogs because ribs are TOO EXPENSIVE
Wine… can’t have that here, I have to drink my PBR from a can
How anyone could think this would be viewed as a positive thing for McCain is beyond me.
It must be nice to live so carefree… meanwhile I’ll be sitting here working, and doing my best to figure out how to stretch my dollars to pay for my electric rates that are going to go up 20%, my health insurance, and my rent. Too bad I can’t dine on ribs, knock back some wine, swing on a tire hung from a tree and kick back in a recliner on a patio — I have more important things to do, like try to exist in this economy.
Why do I keep wondering why there was no fiddler there, as in fiddling while Rome burns?
How many houses does McCain have again? I’m guessing you have to like road trips when you’ve got so many different mansions to commute between.
The only way he can claim to be a man of the people is to acknowledge he hires a lot of people to clean the pools, cook the meals, change the sheets, tend the gardens, serve the beer and ribs. Hope he’s got all their Social Security benefits paid up.
About that health insurance, Beth … you are aware that McCain wants to make any employer’s contribution to insurance taxable. So that the employees’ share will have to increase if he wins. Not that his daughter will have to worry, I’m sure.
But Bridgett, royalty always used to be peripatetic; McCain just wants to bring us back to the good old days.
Jeebus, do you enjoy mentally masturbating over this crap? McCain (or really his wife) is rich.
The Clintons are rich
The Obama’s are rich
The Kerrys (Heinz) are rich.
The Gores are rich.
The Pelosis are mega rich.
Where were you when the press had such a cozy relationship with Clinton? Oh. didn’t mind that.
As I recall, the richest people in congress are democrats.
Whoop dee doo, except for the whole “You can’t count on government”. Duh! I’ve been telling you that forever.
you are aware that McCain wants to make any employer’s contribution to insurance taxable. So that the employees’ share will have to increase if he wins. Not that his daughter will have to worry, I’m sure.
NM, there is no “employer contribution” here — I am an independent contractor, working for myself. My health insurance $ comes from my own pocket.
Exador, yes, they’re all rich — we’re on the same page. BUT it doesn’t have to be thrown in our faces.
No, we can’t count on gov’t — I totally agree there. I wouldn’t want to count on government either. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the whole reason that the MS gulf coast is leaps and bounds ahead in recovery efforts as opposed to NOLA is b/c the people of MS banded together to help their own. As a 24 year resident of the state prior to moving to Nashville, the mentality in MS is to take care of yourself and your neighbor, as we learned a long time ago during Reconstruction that the gov’t didn’t have the people’s best interest at heart.
speaking about press relations to politicos and the sensible, useful way to conduct campaign trail reportage, i recently watched a movie that touched on that. this movie. go see it.
i never really knew the man, or his works, they were all before my time. nevertheless, in the space of an hour and a half, i came to miss him and his contributions palpably.
Just for the record, wartime occupation and Reconstruction in New Orleans under Spoons Butler was nothing for white Confederates to dance and sing about, although the Union Army’s complicity in functionally re-enslaving African-American workers to Louisiana sugar plantations probably did send mixed messages about whether Washington would come through for rich white guys.
Yeah, Ex, my comment isn’t about “how nasty that the McCains are rich” but about the tone-deafness that honestly can’t see that most people don’t live the way they do. Obama, who started out poor, is a rich man now, but having been poor keeps him from making the same mis-step of pretending that he lives just like everybody else, oh wow!
Yeah, he was kind enough to visit his “I live on $1 a month” half brother when he was in Africa. Obama patted him on the head and moved on for his world tour.
Ooh, what a nasty man. You’re right; when Republicans like Cindy McCain cut their half-siblings out of their lives and won’t share the wealth it’s business as usual, but when a Democrat like Obama does it, it’s a sign of something bad. Remind me again of what bad thing having a poor African half-brother is a sign of?
Republicans don’t prance around pretending to be the beacons of brotherly love, that democrats do.
Hey, you get to hammer the republicans for hypocrisy when they get caught with hookers and boys, I get to hammer the democrats for their hypocrisy over claiming to be generous and loving, while they screw over the “less fortunate”.
I don’t make the rules.
All right, all right. Let us not miss the main point, which is supposed to be that, no matter how rich or unloving-towards-their-brothers politicians are, the media is supposed to be reporting, not cavorting.
Yeah, but Ex hasn’t told us yet who gets to complain about that one. I think he said that he’s the one with the rule book about all these things.
Then why is that guy on FOX named Neil Cavorto?
Remind me again of what bad thing having a poor African half-brother is a sign of?
the straight line that answers itself. magnificent.
That girl puts the bimbo back in blonde.OMG.
Kneel Cavorto ! Now there’s a porn name, if ever there was one.
Getting back to B’s point, there hasn’t been real investigative journalism in decades. Blame CNN. Ever since the 24 hour news channels started, they had to compete with each other so much that they’re forced to kiss ass. They can’t risk getting excluded from access, so they play ball. If they do get excluded, they can’t scream about it because there are 50 other news sources to compete with for the public’s ear.
That’s Infotainment!
the media is supposed to be reporting, not cavorting.
But cavorting is so much fun. And the food is free and the liquor is great.
Well, and what Exador said about the need to kiss as. But, really, ass kissing is fun when that ass is giving you free food and drink. Or so I imagine.
But have you had McCain’s grilled buffalo wings? They are soooo to die for.
B, I’m gonna side with you on this one, though not quite as forcefully as you. (Fuck you, you fucking fucks. You do have a way with words.)
It’s too cozy for for comfort.
But then again, it’s not like every member of the media was there, and as Ex brings up, this is hardly some sort of partisan issue. Both sides are, as usual, guilty.
I miss this blog, as I don’t have time to participate like i want. All I want to say is this: You remain one of my favorite bloggers of all time. Seriously.
Amazing and appalling. I mean, the Newsweek’s White House reporter Holly Bailey is falling off her ass giggly drunk, which I’m sure will have no impact on her ability or desire to analyze McCain’s policies objectively.
I assume the McCains do think this makes them and their daughter look good. “mccainbloggette” has a whole series of these videos, most with only a couple of thousand views (as opposed to Sedona Surprises, which has 144,000+). They’re mostly sweet, about, for example, Cindy McCain’s trip to Cambodia. I found the video on McCain’s health care policy (Lil Peanut) particularly interesting.