BlogPAC Goes After McCain's Marriages in New Ad

By Eric Pfeiffer | September 3, 2008 1:57 PM | | Comments (0)

BlogPAC, founded by leading progressive blogger Matt Stoller, has released a new ad going after John McCain's two marriages. Stoller, a Harvard educated, talented political strategist, usually makes his mark by engaging in personal attacks against his ideological adversaries. So, it's not a big surprise BlogPAC would go there. But the reasoning in their press release seems a bit odd, considering how the traditional media has gone after Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol this week:

While John McCain's surrogates make specious assertions regarding Barack Obama's character, patriotism and associations, the legacy media has simply shrugged. Suckling the saccharin nectar of false bipartisan civility, the mass-media consensus seems to be that such attacks are okay, as long as they are made by a conservative Republican.

From the new ad's text:

"Which presidential candidate married a beautiful swimsuit model? Who left his swimsuit model wife after she was disfigured in a tragic car accident? Who dated a woman almost 18 years his junior, while still married to his first wife? John McCain, that's who. Ask the media why they don't tell you these things."


Tags: BlogPAC, John McCain, Republican National Convention

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