videos tagged john mccain

I worked for three years in a newsroom after 9/11. I can tell you a hard and fast rule of thumb when it comes to video from 9/11. You can show the towers on fire, before they fall. You can show the rubble after the fall. You can not show the plane hitting the tower, the plane exploding into the tower, or the towers actually falling. Why? For some people the terror and the horror of that day are still real and still painful. If you were going to show the video, you had to have an explicit warning that

What was really said when McCain asked Palin to be his VP

Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!Republican Senator, and should be Vice-Presidential nominee,Kay Bailey Hutchinson:"The fact that I don't know her, the fact that others, maybe in Washington, haven't, uh, known her, and she doesn't know the ways of Washington might be the very best thing of all."h/t JedReport

Is this sarcastic or serious? It's hard to tell when dealing with someone like McCain.

McCain is out with another "scare you" ad, this time highlighting comments Obama made about Iran in which he said they were a "tiny" country (compared to the Soviet Union) and didn't pose a serious threat to America. The point he was making, which you won't see in this video, and which he said, was that their military budget is 1/100th of ours. If they ever tried anything we'd wipe them off the face of the earth. So no, he doesn't think they're a serious threat. Here's the McCain ad followed by the Obam

Well, we know Ed and Edwina Rogers live in at least one REALLY big house (18,000 square feet)(Yes, those are their real names). According to a new NBC show, "Powerhouse" the lobbyists, and big McCain supporters, live in what's called "The Republican Shangri-la." If that's not enough to make you barf, just watch the video.Mario Correa: It has an elevator. It has eight refrigerators. It has so many rooms that she doesn't remember how many rooms she has in it. And it has a gift-wrapping room where she likes