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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61. 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.

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Yeah and name calling and attacking a person's stattement is not immature AT ALL!!!! People are intitled to their opinions. Just becuase they are not yours doesn't make them wrong, idiots, or disgraceful Americans. As Americans I would hope that we would be able to engage in a conversation without resorting to insults on others...

Posted at 3:47PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Janis

62. Americans are the most lazy, apathetic, whiny people on the planet. If McCain wins in November, we deserve exactly what we get.

Pull your heads out of your backsides and wake up America!

Posted at 3:50PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Tony

63. 57 - You are sooo right!

Many of those saying they won't vote for Obama are lying to themselves and creating bogus reasons why they won't vote for Obama, when in reality it's because he is black. Come you racists, at least be honest and quit with the lameo reasons you won't vote for Obama, it's because he's not white, plain and simple. I'm not saying you're a racist if you don't vote for Obama, I'm saying a lot of you are being dishonest and afraid to say you can't vote for him because he's black. And you're just making up PC excuses as to why you're not voting for him.

By the way, I'm a white guy.

Posted at 3:50PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Vince W.

64. Vince...Don't be such an idiot yourself. If Collin Powell or Condi Rice were running I'd vote for them, as would millions of other voters who will not vote for Obama because he is a flaming liberal. There are some who will not vote for him because he is black, sure...I bet there are at least twice as many who will vote for him because he is black and the trend these days is for people to try to prove who enlightened and not racist they are, not the other way around. There are people who actually understand the issues facing our country and who have informed opinions on how these issues should be addressed. There are vast philosophical differences between these two, give their respective supporters credit for knowing which side of teh issues they are on, implying half the people in the country won't vote for Obama just because, or ever partially because, he is black is unfair and more than likely inaccurate.

Posted at 3:58PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Insert comical name here

65. It has nothing to do with that he is black. It has to do with what he stands for or in fact what he doesnt stand for. White/Black doesnt matter. It scares the hell outta me if you think this man who says he voted against the war when in fact he was not even in the senate to cast a vote on the matter is going to protect this country. He is a joke and will be beat in a landslide not because he is black but because he is a leftist socialist period!!

Posted at 4:08PM on Aug 18th 2008 by D

66. i don't like Obama i used to like Hillary i don't like Mccain so am voting for Ralph Nader hey he wont win but i wont shure dam America TMZ is funny

Posted at 11:35AM on Aug 25th 2008 by dave

67. Speaking of being informed, whoever wins the Presidential election will most likely not win in a landslide. Just because one does not fall prey to Republican fearmongering does not mean one is uninformed. I wish the public were informed instead of sheep swayed by political ads and conservatiove talking heads. The ads McCain is running are a joke and misrepresent the facts. The one touting Obama as the reason oil prices have run up are such a joke. Offshore drilling won't change the price of oil one iota for many years because of the time it takes to find oil and then drill for oil. Meanwhile, alternative energy sources could be developed. By the way, oil prices have dropped, so should Obama also get credit for that? Simple economics is hard for the present administration and McCain to understand, which is one reason McCain's ads reek of ignorance. Much like many who have posted here in support of old man McCain. By the way, Presidents don't set tax policies, Congress does. Think!

Posted at 8:26PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Vince W.

68. McCain is nothing but a LYING, GREEDY, FLIP-FLOPPER who quite honestly is nothing but a GRUMPY, OLD MAN who IS NOT in touch with reality. And to all of you who support this so called American war hero, the fact is, he has continued to VOTE AGAINST funding for our veterans, he's for cutting funds for VA services and just recently DID NOT VOTE for this last GI Bill.

Posted at 8:55PM on Aug 18th 2008 by GG

69. I enjoy TMZ, both the TV show and the web site. For any one to take this stuff so seriously is really odd. It's entertainment...people. Enjoy for what it is...voyeurism, plain and simple.

Posted at 10:06PM on Aug 18th 2008 by jessicahope30

70. SuperStarSteve, Absolutely right but you forgot one of my favorite reasons for voting for Obama and against McCain. Can you say - 4 more years of stacking the supreme court? I knew you could. Tony is absolutely right on this issue.

By McCain's family's standard he is a loser because he never made Admiral. If a military family doesn't approve of your military career ... The attack ads he claims are being aired by anti-Obama groups without his knowledge or approval. If you believe that I have a nice bridge I'd like to sell you. Only slightly used.

He claims to be a righteous Christian but he cheated on his wife. Can you find the chapter and verse which says that's okay? Because I never have.

ispeakthetruth, What about the radical right who's trying to run a whisper campaign against Obama. That's backfiring against them too. Maybe when all the hype clears and the idiots cancel each other out, the election will be won or lost by those of us who actually researched the candidate's positions on the important issues.

Maudie, clearly you have no understanding whatsoever about polls and statistics. The intention of a poll is to ask a representative SAMPLE of voters not each and every one of them. That would be called an election.

Highlander, it would depend on whether I was asked to serve on a board with OJ before or after he supposedly killed his ex-wife (he was cleared by the criminal court remember) By the way, Bill Ayres did not bomb the police or the Pentagon, he bombed a statue dedicated to the police casualties in the Haymarket Riot of 1886. What target he and his allies might have chosen had the Greenwich Village townhouse not exploded, we'll never know.

I voted for Hillary in the primary and unfortunately I know several older white women who have decided not to vote for Obama because he's not Hillary. I have tried to discuss the facts with them but they have closed their minds and plan on voting for McCain because he's the candidate most like them (i.e. old and white). I just hope there are enough open-minded voters to cancel them out. Here's hoping the election will go the right way on November.

Posted at 11:48PM on Aug 18th 2008 by Baseball Junkie

71. Am I the only one who laughed at TMZ's shakespearean reference?

Posted at 11:50PM on Aug 18th 2008 by I come to praise TMZ

72. I LOVE YOU BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TMZ IS GOOD STUFF, BETTER THAN THE EVIL TIES OF CORPORATE AMERICA
EMBRACE CHANGE AND REALIZE HOW THIS COUNTRY WORKS> RESEARCH RALPH NADER FOR PREZ

Posted at 1:51AM on Aug 19th 2008 by NADERGONGALEZ08

73. Mark my words, John McCain will shoot himself in the foot by trying to convince us that a narrow-minded, angry, short-tempered old man obsessed with the military, should be in the race to be President. Uuggh!

Posted at 2:09AM on Aug 19th 2008 by PolarBear

74. you gave Britney pure hell for almost a year,according to you and your reporters everything she did was wrong,you made fun of her southern accent,you even ran a sick contest having people predict her death,,anyone that is down you kick,,,never offer a hand to lift them up. yes you are the biggest contributer to Americas downfall.

Posted at 4:29AM on Aug 19th 2008 by john ,in panama city,fla

75. for those who've called Obama an 'empty suit', I invite you to check out:

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf

unless you'd rather keep your heads stuck in the sand, of course.

Posted at 2:31PM on Aug 19th 2008 by empty suit?

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