Backfire!
Taken from a poll of registered voters likely to select J. Sydney McQueeg.
Now we have confirmation. 22 percent of the population are morons.
I think the blatant smear had no legs. If anything it helped Mcain!
If the Times really wanted to “smear” McCain, they would have run the story back in December.
Not even close.
The media knows it is held in low regards, yet it knows that if it says the same thing often enough, it's message gets through regardless of it's merits.
The NY Times will take it's lumps over this, but it and the rest of the media will keep dredging up story after story about McCain. Some will have more credibility that this one, others won't. However, it will persist in bringing McCain's integrity into question again and again, until people start believing that because of the number of the claims, that some of them must be true.
It took the media quite a while to turn public opinion against the war in Iraq, but they kept at it until they got even supporters of the war questioning if it was really worth it.
They are starting small. After all, the McCain hasn't been officially crowned the Republican nominee yet. However, this is just the beginning, and they will undoubtedly have a lot of stories with a lot more credibility than that one to pile on.
This was just testing the waters to measure the publics reaction.
And those people are either stupid or they are lying liberals.
Dinosaur Press Alert!