# Could McCain succesfully attack the "media"?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 1, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-mccain-succesfully-attack-the-media/466016 "2008-10-01T16:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-mccain-succesfully-attack-the-media/466016/41 "2008-10-06T12:58:58Z")

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Well, Palin brought up the Ayers thing, accusing Obama of “palling around with terrorists” – and the Obama campaign [responded with a Web ad bringing up McCain’s association with the Keating Five.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_el_pr/candidates_attacks) Glass houses, John! 😃 And the memory of the S&L crisis is a lot fresher and rawer than the memory of the Weather Underground’s desultory bombing campaign.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-mccain-succesfully-attack-the-media/466016/42 "2008-10-06T16:48:50Z")

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BTW, **What the … !!!,** such media bias as there is in this election [favors McCain, not Obama.](http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190012?f=h_top) Why would McCain want to do anything to screw that up?

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