McCain Web Ad Mocks Media's "Obama Love"

By: Scott Conroy
Topics: The Media

John McCain used to joke that the media was his political base, but now his campaign is using humor to suggest that the same crowd that was once wowed by the witty senator's "straight talk" is now in the tank for his opponent.

A new web ad called "Obama Love" strings together a series of clips featuring prominent TV journalists, including some that delve into the personal impact the Obama phenomenon has had on them. The ad takes particular aim at MSNBC's Chris Matthews, highlighting his description of a "thrill going up my leg" as he listened to an Obama speech.

Suggestions that Obama has been getting preferentially treatment from the media are not new, but the accusation has intensified during the Illinois senator's foreign trip, which is drawing enormous media attention, including one-on-one interviews with all three network news anchors.

The McCain campaign is advertising a contest on its web site that allows users to "pick the best song" to capture the media's alleged love affair with Obama.

Meanwhile, the conservative independent group Citizens United went on the cable airwaves on Monday with an ad that features conservative commentators arguing that the media swoons for the Illinois senator. The group plans to release a film in September called "Hype: The Obama Effect."

Watch the McCain web ad "Obama Love" below:

Scott Conroy
Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.
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by qtpi1020 July 25, 2008 5:41 PM EDT: I''m a fan of all the Obama love coming from the media. 236.com had a really funny comment on how even the people on McCain''s campaign must adore Barack. The whole feature is actually great-- http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/24/if_they_imd_barack_obama_and_t_2_7906.php.; Reply to this comment


by gocubs58 July 24, 2008 5:51 PM EDT: McCain''''s base at CBS showed some McCain love by re-editing an interview between the Senator and Katie Couric to make it look like McCain didn''''t blunder some basic facts about the surge.
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This is why I am done with CBS news. Couric and company should be fired for their "cut and paste" journalism.; Reply to this comment


by libsluv2spit July 23, 2008 3:51 PM EDT: its scarey when almost 80% of all liberals gets thier news from comedy central..from a person who''s main experience is ''actor''; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 July 23, 2008 1:39 PM EDT: There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein didn%u2019t have Nuclear or active Chemical Weapons and viable delivery systems. Hussein didn%u2019t even have one aircraft after the first Gulf War.

The McCain/Bush plan has been:

Create a false need to invade Iraq.

Don%u2019t send enough Troops to secure the entire population.

Don%u2019t provide the necessary protective equipment.

Disband the Iraqis Military forcing them into armed rebellion.

Don%u2019t use Iraqis to rebuild their own country and use foreign contractors instead
leaving everyone unemployed with nothing but time to fight the occupation.

Mismanage $Billions in Federal Treasury Funds, and deliver funding to the insurgency.

Drop the number, or over extend the US forces ability to maintain troop levels.
Then, implement an increase or %u201CTHE SURGE%u201D of Troop levels 5 years after the original occupation began.

Call for a successful VICTORY when told to leave by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki.

Thus, it has been: create a problem, broaden the problem, implement a fix and then call it a success?

And, the American People are strapped with a devalued $dollar, higher Energy Prices, and $1Trillion Dollars in debt.

Victory?; Reply to this comment


by aj4321-2009 July 23, 2008 1:29 PM EDT: That''''s why I''''m begging you to vote for John McCain.

Posted by "racist ignorant" ChrisL45 at 09:43 AM : Jul 23, 2008
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Are you on your knees?; Reply to this comment


by aj4321-2009 July 23, 2008 1:27 PM EDT: all he is is a black teacher at law school.

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Wow, racism with morning cup of coffee, eh?; Reply to this comment


by memekiller July 23, 2008 1:03 PM EDT: McCain''s base at CBS showed some McCain love by re-editing an interview between the Senator and Katie Couric to make it look like McCain didn''t blunder some basic facts about the surge.; Reply to this comment


by chrisl45 July 23, 2008 12:43 PM EDT: Obama is the teacher saying to the world all my students did not fly into the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon! This is Obama''''s plan, legacy, and shows his charisma as well. First, all he is is a black teacher at law school. That''''s what he is using. Traditionally, when I think of a black professor, I think of someone who knows the laws dealing with "minorities" over everything else. I mean that''''s what they are best at, what they like dealing with, and what is expected of them by their students. So, here comes along Obama with that label. Minorities such as radical extreme Islamist groups can use this fatherly protection against the United States to come in and learn how to fly planes for example. Obama is keeping his fingers crossed when he talks to the heads of countries such as Palestine, Iraq, and Jordan. It might work in the short term for the terrorists. Maybe they want to see what they can get. Thus, unintentionally or intentionally Obama is telling countries such as these that maybe he wants to send American troops to Afghanistan to kill them like over 10,000 Russians were killed there. That''''s Barack Obama''''s plan, legacy, and secret. That''''s why I''''m begging you to vote for John McCain. John has the experience to get things done. God Bless Senator John McCain, our troops, and the USA; Reply to this comment


by humbolt45 July 23, 2008 11:17 AM EDT: michaelhseid...I think you should definitely include Bush as one of the poorest choices made by the people...or should I say supreme court?; Reply to this comment


by alicerea1 July 23, 2008 10:24 AM EDT: The reason many Democratic supporters will not vote for Obama is because they are embarrassed of him, his life, his unfair tactics and his beliefs. And they still don''t know all about him.

1. They don''t want a candidate that has been in a twenty year relationship with Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.

2. They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that has a twenty year relationship with Father Pflaeger as his compass in life

3. They don%u2019t want a candidate that went to a church that supports Louis Farrakhan, an anti Semitic racist.

4. They don''t want to defend Black Liberation theology.

5. They don%u2019t want a candidate that lies about his relationship with Tony Rezko, the Syrian Criminal that sold his property to Obama and supported his campaign.

6. They don''t want a candidate that could work with a domestic terrorist, William Ayers.

7. They don%u2019t want a candidate that Hamas supports.; Reply to this comment