Oh Mr. McCain

After the Feb 12th primaries Obama and McCain spoke back to back, and the differences were stunning. Let's do a little comparing and contrasting shall we?

First we'll start with the transcripts:

Obama's Potomac Primary Speech
McCain's Potomac Primary Speech

Both aren't bad on paper, but what happens when you add some visuals?

Whoa.

McCain's setup was a lot different from the surrounding crowds of Obama (and Clinton btw), whereas in stark contrast McCain camera was just filled with old while men. Where Obama spoke about America and even mentioned McCain and went on about him for a few minutes. McCain on the otherhand alluded to Obama multiple times but didn't actually mention his name. Where's the love? Obama did a great job, focusing on both Clinton for the present primary races, and at the same time linking McCain to Bush. McCain must have found a thesaurus just before his speech throwing out "platitude" while trying to knock down Obama's theme of hope. You could tell by his face the immense pride he must have felt for busting out a multi-syllable word like that. I think Olbermann puts it best when he said after both speeches, "The rule has to be, if you can, always speak before Barack Obama".

How can anyone actually think that McCain will make a good president? Because he's boring? Because he's afraid to say the name of his competition while not actually saying his name (O'Reilly anyone?)? Because he's anti-hope? This guy has nothing to go on except what republicans do best: do nothing and complain about everything.

UPDATE:

Here's the full video of the respective speeches:

Olbermann Profiled on CBS

Awesome CBS profile on Keith, summary on Crooks and Liars:

My Letter to ABC

If you haven't heard yet, ABC intents to run a "docudrama" called The Path to 9/11 on September 10th which inaccurately attributes the causes of 9/11 to the Clinton administrator and Democrats. It's discussed in detail on Media Matters as well had being featured on Countdown last night(C&L has a video as well).

This morning I went on ABC and wrote this in their feedback section:

Please do not air Path to 9/11. It is a gross misrepresentation of the events leading up to one of our nations greatest tragedies and to exploit it for obvious political reasons is disgusting.

Furthermore please take down any "education" material you have related to the show.

If this documentary airs I will boycott your network, there are plenty of other non-blatantly biased networks for my entertainment purposes.

Some critics will probably cry about liberal documentaries like Bowling for Columbine or SuperSize Me, but the main difference here is that these are seen by choice. They weren't aired on public airways for the simple fact they don't have any real relevance other than pre-election propaganda. It makes me start wanting to buy Adbusters again to support the taking back of our public communications from the hands of easily influenced and greedy aristrocrats.

You can also go to the offcial ABC blog and make a comment if you'd like, although it's now "moderated" so only the comments that fit the shows agenda are put up there. I made one myself countering some of the Micheal Moore comments but I doubt it will make it up there.