2008

• McCain's Bermuda Triangle

  Ross Tuttle

  Just months after the Keating Five scandal, John McCain hosted a family reunion at a Bermuda Navy base--on the taxpayer's dime.

• McCain's 'Screw Up'

  Countdown : Media Analysis

  Keith Olbermann lauds Late Night host David Letterman for challenging McCain on his attack ads in a way that only he can.

• The 'Hate Talk Express'

  MSNBC

  The Nation's Ari Melber discusses the growing sentiment amongst conservatives that McCain's campaign has grown far too negative.

• McCain Must End the Politics of Hate

  Brave New Films

  Instead of discussing the real issues, McCain and Palin have turned to stoking the prejudices of their supporters

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  McCain and the Meltdown

  : Banks & Banking

  Robert Sherrill's pathbreaking 1990 exposé of the savings and loan scandal sheds light on John McCain's deregulatory politics--and our current financial crisis.

• Suppressing the Youth Vote?

  Radio Nation : Voters & Voting

  Young people are registering in record numbers. Can they make it to the polls? Plus, Robert Fisk on Obama and Israel

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  McCain's Kremlin Ties

  Mark Ames & Ari Berman : Russia

  He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's political advisors have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions.

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  Can Late Night Comedy Sink McCain?

  Adam Howard : Media Analysis

  If Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue to cast McCain as a liar, it could have a devastating impact.

• McCain Puts Campaign Before Country

  YouTube : U.S. Economy

  John Kerry takes McCain to task for playing politics with our nation's crumbling economy. If only he had been this bold four years ago!

• Bailout Failure Is McCain's Fault

  MSNBC

  Chris Matthews on McCain: 'He called charge, and the Republican retreated. That's what happened here.'

• Mr. McCain Goes to Washington

  The Daily Show

  Jon Stewart says John McCain is the only man who can impulsively overreact to something ten days old.

• Letterman Slams McCain's 'Suspension'

  CBS

  The Late Night Show host asks, 'What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president?'

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  John McCain: Crisis Enabler

  Mark Sumner : U.S. Economy

  The deregulation binge that tanked global markets is a bullet deliberately fired into the economy by ideologues, heedless of the ultimate cost to taxpayers. And John McCain cheered them on.

• Bankrupt AIG Underwrote McCain's 'Reform Institute'

  Mark Ames : Presidential Election 2008

  John McCain is making a big show of criticizing the government "bailout" of insurance giant AIG. But it turns out that AIG is one of the largest donors to his pet think-tank.

• McCain vs. Spain

  CNN

  McCain declares he wouldn't grant a meeting with the President of Spain if he's elected, perhaps forgetting that Spain is a US ally.

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  McCain and the POW Cover-up

  Sydney H. Schanberg

  The war hero has long sought to bury information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

• McCain Must Release His Medical Records

  Brave New Films : Presidential Election 2008

  The state of John McCain's health is an issue of grave concern for all Americans, regardless of political persuasion.

• Nixon Dirty Trickster on McCain Team

  Jon Wiener : Music

  The man instrumental in a White House move to deport John Lennon in 1972 now heads McCain's transition team.

• Senator, Let's Talk About Sex

  Sharon Lerner : Sex Education

  With his deceptive ad linking Obama to condom ed for kindergartners, McCain broaches a topic he'd best avoid.

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  The McCain-Follieri Love Boat

  Mark Ames & Ari Berman : Presidential Election 2008

  What are we to make of a straight-talking maverick who spends his 70th birthday on the yacht of an A-list con man?

• John McCain is Dazed and Confused

  Talking Points Memo : Presidential Election 2008

  Here's a comprehensive condemnation of John McCain's fitness to lead in less than six minutes.

• Is John McCain Racist?

  The UpTake

  Author Irwin Tang talks about McCain's excessive use of the derogatory term 'gook', in his new book John McCain's Racism and Why it Matters.

• McCain Learns How to Use a Computer

  YouTube

  McCain, the self-proclaimed 'illiterate,' computer non-user gets excited about a one-hour CD that guarantees it can teach him this 'complicated' technology.

• Oh, McCain!

  Flinch Studio Animation

  This Schoolhouse Rock-inspired cartoon portrays John McCain's "double-talk" express.

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  John McCain's Voodoo Reformism

  Ari Berman : Presidential Election 2008

  The Republican candidate's maverick image obscures his cozy relationship with lobbyists.