Are McCain's Lies Finally Coming Home to Roost?

In order for the Rovian political attacks of John McCain to work it requires the complicity of the media. The mainstream media has picked up the negative ads, McCain's stump speech lies, and has repeated his repeated howls of 'foul play' and crocodile tears over Obama's responses. Palin has some far right policies, and has flip-flopped and disguised her true agenda, yet when criticized, the republican machine cries "Sexist" and "Unfair". McCain ignores criticism and fact checks and continues to spew blatant lies about Obama's platform from the stage; trading his credibility for a few votes. 'Win at any cost' is his motto. Is that what we really want continuing to run the country? I thought that 8 years of lies distortions and secrecy was Enough! We need a 'Truth in Campaigning' regulation that holds candidates accountable for this malfeasance.
As Roland Martin questioned on CNN this past weekend - If Michelle Obama had paraded onto the stage at the DNC with 5 children, one of whom was an unwed pregnant teenager, would she be held up as a 'Norman Rockwell' painting of good family values or would the republican attack dogs be all over it?

Even the 'godfather' of sleazy campaigns and false indignation Carl Rove has chimed in, saying that McCain's campaign has gone too far:

"McCain has gone in some of his ads -- similarly gone one step too far," he told Fox News, "and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the '100 percent truth' test."

Finally, it seems there is movement in the press recognizing that they are being manipulated like puppets with the Steve Schmidt's republican hand up their backsides. Here's a snippet from an article from Time that can be read here:

This imbalance has caused some soul-searching and second-guessing in newsrooms, as reporters realize that they are being successfully manipulated by the McCain campaign. "Stop the madness," said TIME's own Mark Halperin, in an appearance on CNN to discuss the controversy. "I think this is the press just absolutely playing into the McCain campaign's crocodile tears."

By the weekend, many news organizations had mounted a backlash of their own, running prominent pieces accusing the self-branded "Straight Talking" McCain of deceiving voters. "The "Straight-Talk Express" has detoured into doublespeak," announced the Associated Press, while the New York Times blared, "McCain Barbs Stirring Outcry as Distortions."

Let's hope that the media will continue to press for a campaign on the issues, and quit paying homage to the campaign of lies, deceit, personality, gender, race, and age. There is far too much at stake here. We have our job to do too. Study the issues, research the facts, and don't let all the negative hype get in the way. And if anything, let the press know that we are not going to continue to listen to all this BS anymore.