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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31. 28. face it peeps...obama is gonna be are next prez....if you think he aint...your smokin somethin good....lol

this country needs a black prez...to finally show all you crackas what it feels like to be in are shoes....

obama is gonna show all yall what it feels like...cuz face it...we need a change

Posted at 11:38AM on Aug 18th 2008 by obama in 08'

THE ONLY 'CHANGE' WE WILL HAVE IF OBAMA IS PRESIDENT IS WHAT'S LEFT IN OUR POCKETS...

Posted at 11:49AM on Aug 18th 2008 by strawberrygirl

32. OMG, this clown is a total joke! He whines about Obama being a "celebrity" and McShame is the MEDIA WHORE! He claims Obama uses the media and it's actually McOld Man using the same media escape. Crawl out of Obama's ass and get back on the campaign trail and the issues this country is facing. Or is that something McGeritol can't do? He trys to talk the talk, but shows he can't walk the walk!!! He is so foul and totally transparent. His fear is so apparent. He is scared to death he will loose to Obama. MAN-UP dude! Do either of these guys realize what is at stake here? Do either of them really care about this country? We are still at war with foreign countries and facing a historic event and China is bleeding us dry. Yes, China owns the U.S. govt!!!!!!!! This is truly America's wake up call people, we must dig deep and put our differences aside, or we will end up with someone much worse than President Bush!!

Posted at 11:59AM on Aug 18th 2008 by McSame Is A Joke!

33. Obama is overexposed! If this story is true, then McCain is correct!

Posted at 12:07PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Me in DC

34. I am a blackmale and i will be voting for obama come November--for alot of reasons but mainly because his stands on equal rights.Alot of people do not know this but congress just voted two months ago to see if minoritys will be able to vote come November.Hopefully when and if he gets into office that will change.But can't help to wonder sometimes that maybe a white womens early posting on this forum was credit,that a blackman will never become president of AMERICA.In my 25 yrs of living in AMERICA-- if there one thing i know it that majority of white americans can't be trusted when it comes to black people.If they can be fool into thinking that he is a muslin--that his wife is a radical--or just believe all the b.s that comes on fox news about him nightly,what would they do at the polls come November?

Posted at 12:17PM on Aug 18th 2008 by can't help but to wonder

35. TMZ ruining America? Last I checked it was the Bush Administrations job. Some of you fobs stuck with the McCain bandwagon should "edumacate" yourselves a pick up a newspaper and not just look at the pictures:

McCain - Only started critiquing the war four months after "Mission Accomplished". Obama was against 'invading a sovereign nation' much like Russia is doing in Georgia these days-- FROM THE BEGINING.

McCain - Was joined with kooky pastor Tom Hagee who is an openly Anti Catholic and is an extremist Christian fundamentalist who is an end times type preacher waiting for the second coming only so Jews can convert to Christianity when the Second Coming occurs...a looney toon for sure, but McCains buddy until McCain distanced himself after the press starting revealing who Hagee was. Hagee claims that the Jews in Europe were 'hunted down' by Hitler to return to Isreal. A friend of McCain and a crackpot.

McCain - Claims his campaign not run by lobbyists. LIE. Here we go again. McCain is joined at the hip with lobbyists representing every major corporate concern from failed Fannie Mae to Blackwater to large oil interests....George Bush Part II. Same ole same old......

McCain - Was never the Republican Party's first choice. Even Ditto head Limbaugh was anti McCain until
spokemodel Romney started tanking terribly and they had no choice but to go with their "substitute" candidate. Short memories of the Republican Primaries or just stupidity. I think it's the latter.

McCain - Suprise surprise alligned with big money via his wife. Nothing yet has been revealed about Cindy McCain's ties to big money ties to a huge beer distributorship. Big money Republican are not interested about you and I, only themselves. Recession anyone? How is it the US cannot compete against heavily socialized and unionized countries like China and Europe? Republican's have demonized and brainwashed most Americans to the point they are afraid of unions and national healthcare, yet our standard of living is falling at the same time theirs is rising....HUH? DUH? Knock knock, who's there? NO ONE.

McCain - Financial ties to a group calling itself the "Albanian American Civic League"....which has a lobbyist group (of course) which has shadowy ties to Al-Qaida.

Wake up and smell the coffee folks, for those who call Obama an 'empty suit' perhaps it's time to do some homework on your own candidate. McCain will be a replay of the Bush Administration. A War Hero yes, a viable Presidential Candidate no. Someone should bring up all the right wing radio talk shows and their comments PRIOR to McCain getting the GOP nod and make them eat their own words.

Why not? The dems need to start borrowing ideas from Rove and put them to good use.

TMZ is giving us Paris and Britney, McCain is stealing IDEAS from TMZ. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.




Posted at 12:18PM on Aug 18th 2008 by SuperStarSteve

36. #16 says "Polls may be accurate, but they do not reach a majority of people." Wow, Sherlock...that makes a lot of sense. And since polls usually result in a wide spectrum of percentages, how is it that they convey accuracy? Which polls are you talking about? And what sampling methods are you talking about? "My statement means that that is the views of voting America, " (sic) ...which by your earlier statement means that these views are not those of the majority...? whaaat?

RE: McPain...his performance the other night was pathetic.
1) He spoke of the sanctity of marriage. Yeah, right. Then why did he cheat on his disabled wife, and then dump her for a much younger, rich party gal (who later stole from her own charity to support her drug habit)? He and Cindy filed for their marriage cert before his divorce form wife #1 was even finalized. Now we're finding out that McShame was not in a "cone of silence" during that forum. He was able to hear the questions being asked as he rode in his motorcade. No wonder his answers sounded rehearsed. He was not even capable of engaging in an honest dialog...every friggin' answer was a campaign soundbite. 2) And all that crap about following bin Laden to the gates of hell...I will catch that guy. Then why did he vote for invading Iraq (which had nothing to do with 9/11), which diverted our attention from Afghanistan (where bin Laden was)? 3) And his refusal to define what "rich" is (with regards to taxing)? Uh...McBush, is that because you didn't want to mention your 10 mansions, your $500 loafers and Cindy's latest $750,000 charges on ONE of her credit cards? And you've got the unmitigated gall to keep accepting social security payments while decrying the failure of the system? Finally, my favorite of the evening: 4) That oh so touching story about the prison guard drawing a cross to show his sympathy for you. Lots of sources are now saying you lifted that story from your favorite Russian novelist. What a friggin' liar. There's your straight talk express, folks.

Posted at 12:36PM on Aug 18th 2008 by lisa

37. SUBSTANCE OVER HYPE !!!!!!! John McCain is a legitimate American Hero who was held prisoner in the toughest North Vietnamese POW camp The Hanoi Hilton and was tortured. They offered to release him because his father was an Admiral and he turned them down unless they released the other POW's Scrafiucing yourself for others does not make you qualified to be President but it does mean you are a man of the highest of honor which is a quality everyone wants in a president. During the CNN debate/questions McCain shoed he was decisive and had a clear cut vision while Obama showed he was vague and undecided and still pandering to both sides while John McCain has a history of working with both sides. How many Africans know that MCcain has an adopted BLACK child and that he also has a son who is SERVING IN IRAQ. I turst this guy on matters of National Securty and war because he has been there and has a son serving. Obama cancellled a meeting with the troops in Germany and his Windfall Profits Tax on big oil will cause the the big oil companies to transfer the cost onto us and he is doubling the capital gains tax when the coutry is having a problem with capital. Obma served on a board with William Ayers who bombed NY police and the Pentagon and still has no remorse. Some don't think it is a big deal because he was only on a board with him but I would like to ask these people would they serve on a board with OJ Simpson? He insults the American public when he expects us to believe that he sat in a church for 20 years and never hear Wirght's racist and ANTI AMERICAN BANTER.

Posted at 12:44PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Highlander

38. McCain is terrifying -- you seriously want the draft brought back??

Posted at 12:41PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Jerry Jarvela

39. McCain is a lying, cheating corpse who couldn't lead his way out of paper bag. Cindy McCain is a druggie homewrecker, and she looks like a hooker.

This kind of experience, America doesn't need.

Posted at 12:42PM on Aug 18th 2008 by MORE WAR, PLEASE!!!!

40. I think it's great.... the more these loser drive-by media foam at the mouth about what a messiah obama is... the more backlash they create against him from the american public that can see through the propagranda, who have the clarity to see that this guy (obama) as nothing more than the empty suit that he is.

Posted at 12:44PM on Aug 18th 2008 by ispeakthetruth

41. mollie, lisa..... you two friggin little zit faced morons.You are living in and enjoying freedoms because of men like McCain. Little toads like you make me sick. Mollie, you are the epitome of a coward. And Lisa, go buy some clearasil, watch MTV and stay the hell out out of mportant matters like voting. Friggin idiots. You are a disgrace to America.

Posted at 12:52PM on Aug 18th 2008 by The idiots have gathered.

42. Do you know what a poll is?! Do you think they are polling people in the Appalachian mountains? I live in DETROIT, am a registered voter and donate to campaigns! I have NEVER been polled! Polls do not mean s**t!

Posted at 12:57PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Maudie

43. mollie #28----you would make a perfect human shield on the front lines in Iraq, getting your empty head blown off to protect a real hero. Then you just MIGHT have had a use in this world.

Posted at 1:02PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Capt. Timmons

44. RE: #34--But can't help to wonder sometimes that maybe a white womens early posting on this forum was credit,that a blackman will never become president of AMERICA.In my 25 yrs of living in AMERICA-- if there one thing i know it that majority of white americans can't be trusted when it comes to black people.
.................

Just Wondering,
If you only KNEW how many white people are voting for Obama, you might be amazed. The worm has turned in America, thanks to GWB.

Obama is the most educated, gentile, intelligent candidate that has run for President in my 42 years. I am going to be very proud to vote for him. Don't listen to that ignorant brain-donor that indicated otherwise...she is a racist, but despite her conviction to the contrary, she doesn't speak for everyone.

Posted at 1:31PM on Aug 18th 2008 by the worm has turned

45. You are not ruining America but you are definitely part of a downward trend. Your crude comments and attacks seem to inspire even more vulgar and stupid posts from many who visit your site. S.

Posted at 10:51AM on Aug 19th 2008 by sacha

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