alt.politics.economics

On 03 Mar 2008, Harry Hope wrote:

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> Thanks mainly to conservative talk radio, John McCain has not been on
> particularly good terms with the GOP base.
>
> But that all changed recently when the New York Times published a
> story about McCain and his exceedingly friendly friendship with a
> female lobbyist.
> /2008/02/22/us/politics/?_r=1&ref=poli
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> If there's one thing wingnuts hate more than John McCain, it's the New
> York Times.
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> (I don't know why - they seemed pretty keen on the Times when the
> administration wanted to invade Iraq.)
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> And so an uneasy alliance formed, with the talkers defending McCain
> from the evil, devilish, left-wing media.
>
> Even Rush Limbaugh started to come up with lame excuses for supporting
> the guy he's been trashing for the past eight years.
>
> Unfortunately it all came crashing down again last week, when local
> GOP officials tapped radio big mouth Bill Cunningham to open for
> McCain at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio.
> /openers/2008/02/rightwing_radio_host_rips_demo.
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> In the GOP stronghold of Cincinnati, right-wing radio host Bill
> Cunningham whipped up a crowd of more than 300 supporters by using

300? Golly Gee. A whole 300.


> Barack Obama's middle name often, ripping Hillary Clinton as a first
> lady and referring to former . Secretary of State Madeleine
> Albright as an "ugly, old woman."
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> Some people cheered, while others sat shocked.
>

Shocked that the jokes were so mild, I imagine.


> "At some point the media will stop taking sides and start covering
> Barack Hussein Obama the same way they cover Cheney and Bush,"
> Cunningham roared.
>
>
> McCain quickly realized that one of his supporters had gone a bit "off
> message."
>

How, exactly? McCains bread-and-butter are Cunningham's listeners (he
hopes).