GRITtv: What the Media Missed
source: http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/10/10/whats-spinning/
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So many low moments in the week's political and financial coverage, our guests are having a hard time choosing. Choire Sicha is stuck on the New York Times political pages, so careful about what they can and can't say and yet...the story beyond the horserace seems to slip out of their grasp.
In terms of guilt by association and the Ayers story, Logan Pollard sees a failure to explain Obama's place as a junior player in the Chicago political scene, where the now-wealthy Ayers is an accepted person in the Chicago education community, and Barack Obama's association with him, however tenuous, is no different than that of the mayor of Chicago, Republicans in Chicago, and the philanthropic education community there. As Joe Conason puts it, there's an "inability to turn over the rock."
Joe Conason used to write about the World Anti-Communist League (a.k.a. "WACLE", "the cesspool of world politics," with support from rogues of the world from Rev. Moon to the Japanese organized crime syndicate Yakuza.) Conason fills us in on the McCain/John Singlaub/IranContra/Keating connection. McCain used to sit on the board of WACLE, which apparently was the norm in the conservative political landscape that an ambitious politician in Arizona would associate. WACLE's U.S. Council For World Freedom head Singlaub was a friend of his dad, Admiral McCain. MSM, if you're going to comb through the associations, you need to . . . really comb through the associations.
In terms of guilt by association and the Ayers story, Logan Pollard sees a failure to explain Obama's place as a junior player in the Chicago political scene, where the now-wealthy Ayers is an accepted person in the Chicago education community, and Barack Obama's association with him, however tenuous, is no different than that of the mayor of Chicago, Republicans in Chicago, and the philanthropic education community there. As Joe Conason puts it, there's an "inability to turn over the rock."
Joe Conason used to write about the World Anti-Communist League (a.k.a. "WACLE", "the cesspool of world politics," with support from rogues of the world from Rev. Moon to the Japanese organized crime syndicate Yakuza.) Conason fills us in on the McCain/John Singlaub/IranContra/Keating connection. McCain used to sit on the board of WACLE, which apparently was the norm in the conservative political landscape that an ambitious politician in Arizona would associate. WACLE's U.S. Council For World Freedom head Singlaub was a friend of his dad, Admiral McCain. MSM, if you're going to comb through the associations, you need to . . . really comb through the associations.
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