McCain Bashing D&D players

[ardantheblack]

ok, so this isn't exactly discussing game issues, but i feel this discussion needs to be made. McCain launches an attack on a specific group of people without a real connection being made, and i'm wondering if anyone can shine some light on this. Leave a comment

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[ash1977law]

Oh I didn't say both sides arn't filthy, sadly nowdays it comes with the teritory.

I laugh every time I hear 'The Media' blamed for bad coverage of a political party or a political figure. From what I can see from this side of the pond the US popular media has a distinct Republican bias, but that may just be my perception. The Tory party in Britain blamed 'The Media' for making them look like they were mud-slinging in the '97 election. It didn't help that Blair was running a clean campaign trading on his (realtive) youth and ideas and the Tories were running a poster campaign showing blair with demonic eyes.

This side of the pond we are hearing a lot about Obama touring forign cities to massive cheering crowds, and about his policies. All are hearing about the McCain campaign is his gaffs, and not a lot else as there dosn't appear to be much else to report ("McCain has no new policies" and "McCain still alive" are not really stories). As such the media abroad which has little bias (I will not say "no bias" because that is impossible) reports on the most interesting stories.

If the only interesting thing McCain does is sling mud and cock up then yes, that will get reported on. Doubtless has has interesting new policies but so far all we are hearing is that he is a Bush clone.

I've failed to see "Obama mocks gays" or "Barak speaks out against fans of lego bricks" or "Sen. B Obama tells of how he hunted the Red October", but doubtless when Obama cocks up as badly as McCain has he'll get spanked in the press too.

[pinkpolarity]

I've failed to see "Obama mocks gays" or "Barak speaks out against fans of lego bricks" or "Sen. B Obama tells of how he hunted the Red October", but doubtless when Obama cocks up as badly as McCain has he'll get spanked in the press too.

Yes, Obama has certainly done his share of gaffe-making. Of course, I don't know anything, I'm too busy bitterly clinging to my guns and my religion to know anything about politics. :P

[ash1977law]

Hmm, we've not really heard of any gaffes from Obama as big as McCain's.
When Obama comes out in support of GURPs we'll hear about it.

I'm too busy bitterly clinging to my guns and my religion
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