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OMNI NEWSLETTER: MCCAIN WATCH #2
FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUNE 17, 2008
Compiled by Dick Bennett (First McCain Watch, April 15, 2008)
CONTENTS
The Real McCain Films
McCain in the Media (see below)
McCain and Hamas
M and Oil
M and GOP
M and GI Benefits
M and Pennsylvania
M and Lobbyists
A Developer
Donors
[For rest of Newsletter see www.omnicenter.org, click on periodicals.]
Hagee
Media (more)
Neocons
McCain Is More Of McSame
Its always a hard thing to watch someone deny who they are and what they believe. With the amount of television coverage that McCain will get as we head to the general election campaign, this is going to be continually painful
THE REAL MCCAIN Series: Watch the video http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/24684188/39179
There's no question John McCain is getting a free ride from the mainstream press. But with the power of YouTube and the blogosphere, we can provide an accurate portrayal of the so-called Maverick. We can put the brakes on his free ride!
Since we first released The Real McCain a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: The Real McCain 2.
We're doing everything to get the facts out there about McCain. Join us in making a concerted effort to tell the story that corporate media refuses to tell. E-mail this video to all of your friends and family members, news blogs and other local media outlets. And don't forget to Digg it!
According to Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't:
"It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship."
The mainstream press may not do their job, but we can surely do ours. It is crucial that we alert the public to the REAL McCain, and it is crucial we act now, before it's too late.
Yours, Robert Greenwald, and the Brave New Team Brave New Films is located at 10510 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232. You can get our latest videos on email, iTunes, RSS, Facebook, and YouTube here.
MCCAIN IN THE MEDIA
“The Press Corps’ Unshakeable Crush on McCain” by Peter Hart, Extra! (May-June 2008). The corporate media follows the GOP line. In same no. see “Failing to Use the 1st Amendment to Defend the Bill of Rights” by Cynthia Cooper: Media don’t probe candidates on civil liberties.
MEDIA AND MCCAIN
Isabel Macdonald. “Endorsing a Different Standard for McCain, Obama.” Extra!Update (April 2008). Corporate media were more interested in examining Obama’s connections (Rev. Wright) than McCain’s.
Peter Hart, “McCain’s Iraq War ‘Advantage.’” Extra! Update (April 2008). Pundits have treated the Iraq War as an advantage for McCain over his Democratic opponent, even though he is as hawkish as Bush, because they believe he has a built-in advantage on military matters.
MCCAIN AND HAMAS
EXPOSED: McCain a Complete Hypocrite on Hamas!
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/85587
McCain was for talking to Hamas before he was against it.
MCCAIN VS. FAIR PAY FOR WOMEN
Recently, Senate Republicans filibustered the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law that would have overturned an appalling Supreme Court decision that practically abolished remedies for gender-based compensation discrimination in the workplace. In opposing this legislation, Senator John McCain said that if women want better-paying jobs, they just need more "education and training."
Let's tell Senator McCain that he should stop blocking an up or down vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Women don't need more "education and training." They need the Senate to ensure equal rights for women under the law. Please have a look and take action. http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=142&id=191-433089-di3gfa&t=42
Thanks! Edrene
John McCain is lying to America. He claims to be a straight-talking maverick. He publicly distances himself from the wildly unpopular Bush administration.
But it's just more of the same. Making windfall corporate profits the law of the land. Pandering to the religious right. Endless war.
McCain's latest ingenious policy proposal is his idea to lift the gas tax during the summer months to supposedly help ease the burden on vacationing families. McCain's idea is so out of touch that everyone from Paul Krugman to Bush's council of economic advisors thinks it's a horrible idea.
McCain's proposal is not about making life easier for families. McCain's real special interest is big oil. They get huge tax breaks to help them continue to rake in record profits, even as prices soar at the pump.
Democracy for America wants the voters to know the truth. We need to make an impact now while the issue is hot. Our goal: 2,000 donors contributing $50 each to fight back.
https://democracyforamerica.com/contribute/mccain
DFA will run a people-powered campaign, using radio ads to target the very voters McCain hopes to shore up with his gas tax holiday. We will go after white men and independents, running our aggressive persuasion ads on drive time sports radio in upcoming primary states.
It is imperative that we stop McCain from taking us deeper into economic despair with nonsense proposals designed to pander to a key voting bloc in an election year.
The time is now. Together we will unmask the McCain myth. Join us today and contribute $50.
https://democracyforamerica.com/contribute/mccain
This is only the beginning. The more DFA members take action, the faster we can escalate the attack. DFA's people-powered campaigns will use sophisticated micro-targeting to contact voters who are crucial to a Democratic victory in November.
McCain is appealing to working and middle class Americans. He wants folks to think he is working for them. The gas tax holiday is no exception. A recent Reuters article connects the not-so-subtle dots:
"Economists said that since refineries cannot increase their supply of gasoline in the space of a few summer months, lower prices will just boost demand and the benefits will flow to oil companies, not consumers. "You are just going to push up the price of gas by almost the size of the tax cut," said Eric Toder, a senior fellow at the Urban-
MCCAIN TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ: WAR FOR OIL
AND A CORPORATE MEDIA SPOKESMAN AGREES
"My friends, I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East." --McCain, May 2, 08
Chris Matthews opines:
"You know, if somebody else were to say that, they would be accused of being a communist, or radical, or a leftist. For John McCain, a war hero, to say that we're fighting in the Middle East to protect our oil sources is an astounding development." --
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/02/john-mccain-admits-iraq-war-was-over-oil/
MCCAIN WINNING GOP CONSERVATIVES
“All Aboard the McCain Express” by Rick Perlstein, The Nation (April 21, 2008). Between 2001 and 2006 the Republicans conservative movement controlled the gov’t., with the result of a crashing economy, a rotting infrastructure, a failed war, and a less safe world. It’s this Party McCain is leading.
GI BENEFITS
A letter in the NWTimes today gives yet another reason to oppose McCain. His is the first of 3 names on a bill competing with another bill which would expand GI benefits. McCain's bill apparently preserves the status quo and discriminates against the Natl Guard and Reservist guys who have been fighting, and also favors soldiers who have been in the service longer over those who have fought several tours of combat. ---Coralie
How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania
Frank Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27rich.html?ref=opinion
McCain: The 'Anti-Lobbyist' Who Works With Lobbyists
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/mccain-the-antilobbyis_n_87941.html
A Developer, His Deals and His Ties to McCain
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/politics/22diamond.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Jim Hightower has compiled some good information about donors and finances of Clinton, Obama, and McCain.
Scroll to end of the first article.
-Carl
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/1654
MORE ON DONORS from The Real McCain Series
1. Watch the video
2. Forward it to others
Dear Dick,
Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what's John McCain's plan? Will he hold the corporate leaders of the energy industry accountable when he addresses them today in Houston? Probably not, considering they are some of his biggest fund-raisers.
The Center for Responsive Politics finds that McCain has accepted over $1 million from the oil and gas industry. Many of McCain's top advisers have lobbied for big oil, which is why he now acts in their best interests, opposing environmental legislation and alternative energy plans. And that's exactly why we want everyone to know The REAL McCain.
Watch the video: http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/24684188/42047?utm_source=rgemail
McCain is desperate to distance himself from President Bush. But according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund, McCain has received millions in donations from the same oil, coal, nuclear, chemical, utility, and auto companies that helped the Bush administration create its energy plan-a plan that has raised gasoline to $4 a gallon.
Here's what you can do: Send this e-mail to ten of your friends, family members, and colleagues. Tell them to send it on to ten people they know. And don't forget to Digg it! Spread the word that McCain is taking major contributions from wealthy oil executives like Bob Mosbacher, just one of the special interest leaders he'll be addressing in Houston.
Make sure everyone gets to know The REAL McCain, subscribe to Brave New Films today. Yours, Robert Greenwald
[Go to www.omnicenter.org for complete Newsletter #2 June 17, 2008.]
This is also a BOOZMAN WATCH if our Congressman supports McCain as completely as he has been a Bushclone.
Dick Bennett
jbennet@uark.edu
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