To: Brumar89 who wrote (26719 ) 4/26/2008 10:35:05 AM From: Ann Corrigan Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224704 McCain did not view the ad he condemned says Michelle Malkin: >By Michelle Malkin • April 26, 2008 Did you know that John McCain lambasted the North Carolina GOP’s anti-Obama/Jeremiah Wright ad without having seen it? Yes, this noxious little tidbit was tucked into an AP story three days ago when the controversy broke and has been little remarked upon since. When I mentioned this fact at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference dinner last night, much of the audience gasped. Obviously, the word hasn’t gotten out there enough: The ad opens with a photo of Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright together and a clip of Wright, whose incendiary comments about race have bedeviled Obama. “He’s just too extreme for North Carolina,” the narrator says in the 30-second spot. “We asked them not to run it,” McCain told reporters traveling with him in Kentucky. “I’m sending them an e-mail as we speak asking them to take it down. “I don’t know why they do it. Obviously, I don’t control them, but I’m making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don’t want it,” McCain said. McCain said the ad was described to him: “I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.” Let me repeat that: “I didn’t see it, and I hope that I don’t see it.” He didn’t bother to watch the 41-second video before his campaign leaned on the NC GOP to withdraw it. He doesn’t want to see it, lest he sully his delicate eyes. Yet, he’s so indignantly sure “that there’s no place for that kind of campaigning.” And then he has the gall to turn around and knock Obama’s elitism. Congratulations, Sen. McCain: You’ve out-snobbed Snobama. Yes, without having seen the ad or talked directly to the NC GOP officials, he’s absolutely convinced that he’s right about his knee-jerk assessment of their supposedly bigoted motives. McCain Math is the same as MSM Math: Southern + Republican + video featuring radical leftists who happen to be black = RACISTRACISTRACISTRACISTDANGERWILLROBINSON! Naturally, McCain’s New York Times editorial board endorsers at the NYTimes were happy to oblige and pile on with a Pavlovian editorial this morning calling the ad racist and divisive, “shameful and ugly.” Congratulations for giving your friends at the NYTimes the rope to hang North Carolina Republicans, Sen. McCain. michellemalkin.com