Election in TMZ's Hands - Everyone Stay Calm

John McCainJohn McCain is a thief, shamelessly stealing from the TMZ playbook to get elected. This according to a little thing called TIME magazine.

Columnist James Poniewozik ridicules McCain for "running a TMZ campaign," saying McCain's tactics are akin to TMZ publishing "DUI write-ups and nipple slips." Bum rap, we think. Click here for nip slips and mugshot galleries.

Poniewozik claims the ad showing Obama with a zillion flash bulbs going off is a cheap shot: "Like a snarky blog, the McCain campaign argues that Mr. Thinks He's All That is overexposed." The dude says McCain's ad "implies that Obama is an empty suit, a D lister," framing him like TMZ and others "frame celebrities like [Britney] Spears by appealing to a mix of fascination and resentment."

For the record, we have not come to bury Britney, we have come to praise her.

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16. it is a little annoying how TMZ concentrates on posting items about people I would not consider a celebrity. its like TMZ gives them their 15 minutes of fame over and over and over again. Give us info on the REAL celebrities. Not the wanna bes...

Posted at 10:50AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Denise

17. Obama is definately an empty suit. Notice how he skirted the questions at the unofficial debate the other night. He and his militant wife should bow out gracefully before they embarass the country any further. McCain 08

Posted at 11:08AM on Aug 18th 2008 by mrsmal

18. #11....You are the one who needs some educating. For one, I'm a woman. Polls may be accurate, but they do not reach a majority of people. You may know how to read, but you can't interpret. Another thing, by stating a black man will be not elected does not make me racist. It is idiots like you that spout off "racism" when you have not the intelligence to think of anything else. My statement means that that is the views of voting America, do some research. It is idiots like YOU, who spout off and start calling names when you you can't comprehend what is being said. You and small minded people are what is wrong with America. State nonsensical things when someone doesn't agree with you. Grow up and figure out how to read. Quit hiding behind racism.

Posted at 10:53AM on Aug 18th 2008 by This election is such a joke

19. Obama has 143 days experience in the Senate!! McCain is a war hero! Obama has not a clue how to run this country! He is a puppet for the Democrat led Congress ilk like Pelosi who wont even let us vote on drilling but she is going to save the world. Lord help us if Obama Hussein is elected!!

Posted at 11:01AM on Aug 18th 2008 by D

20. You're not running America, that’s giving you dumbazz to much credit. What I can say is you're definitely polluting it with your filth.

Posted at 11:05AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Commentkiller

21. You're not running America, that’s giving you dumbazz to much credit. What I can say is you're definitely polluting it with your filth.

Posted at 11:15AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Commentkiller

22. You're not running America, that’s giving you dumbazz to much credit. What I can say is you're definitely polluting it with your filth.

Posted at 11:15AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Commentkiller

23. You're not running America, that’s giving you dumbazz to much credit. What I can say is you're definitely polluting it with your filth. Obama 08!

Posted at 11:14AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Commentkiller

24. You're not running America, that’s giving you dumbazz to much credit. What I can say is you're definitely polluting it with your filth. Obama 08!

Posted at 11:14AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Commentkiller

25. McCain Will do anything to get elected even Hug Bush...TMZ is like a accident on the side of the road u hate it but can't help but look TMZ's time will be short the staff show their faces on TV that means it's only a matter of time before a crazy hurts one of them for talking about a Celeb they love..watch your backs it may be all funny now...but I hear things

Posted at 11:12AM on Aug 18th 2008 by the truth

26. Darn right TMZ is ruining America. They're morally bankrupt. The latest issue of my favorite comic Ralph Snart blasts TMZ, et. al. for their shameless scandal manufacturing.

Posted at 11:22AM on Aug 18th 2008 by Fred Garvin

27. Obama IS an empty suit. He has accomplished nothing in his life. He's spent 2/3 of the time he's been a U.S. Senator runningn for the presidency. His resume is a pack of lies, he never votes on anything, he refuses to take a position on anything, and he cannot talk his way out of a wet paper bag without a teleprompter. Good luck, American, if you vote for this Marxist phony.

Posted at 11:27AM on Aug 18th 2008 by LaReina

28. YOU CAN DO IT TMZ -

Investigate McCain and I bet you will help the country from a man who spent a CAREER bragging about his military serivce but SEALED THE RECORDS he brags about - to me this is biggest of all COWARDS.

Posted at 11:40AM on Aug 18th 2008 by mollie

29. When Bush was elected 8 years ago he had very little experience…look how that turned out…there is no way Obama should be president…

- Democrat against Obama

Posted at 11:42AM on Aug 18th 2008 by NO OBAMA

30. Hold on, i thought the entire goal and point of TMZ WAS to ruin America......IT'S NOT??????!!!!! DAMMIT!!!! Now I have to go back to reading Perez Hilton (blech)

Posted at 11:44AM on Aug 18th 2008 by duh

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