October 01, 2008

MSNBC Pulls Ad Calling on McCain to Release His Medical Records

Ummm, why? What's unreasonable about calling for the disclosure of information that will have a direct effect on a candidate's ability to do his or her job? Of course that's especially true when you've got a candidate who is 72, has had cancer 4 times, and who engaged in a weird joke/suspicious stunt in which a selection of records were shown to reporters (only 1 of whom was a doctor, and who couldn't make copies) last Spring. But the same holds true for other national candidates who haven't released their records (Palin and Biden). These directly affect their fitness for their job.

And just how in the tank for McCain is O'Reilly? Apparently he thinks calling for him to be open with the American people about his health is the most "vicious" ad of the campaign. Riiiiight (insert eye-roll here).

Posted by armand at October 1, 2008 10:31 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Media | Politics


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I honestly don't remember -- did anyone refuse to air the SBVfT ads in '04? I'm not thrilled with this ad, and I probably wouldn't approach the (otherwise legitimate) issue in this particular fashion, but I'm getting tired of media making editorial decisions about what ads to air when they can't bring themselves to call a lie a lie in their actual coverage of the campaign.

Posted by: moon at October 1, 2008 12:13 PM | PERMALINK
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