http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_as/china_tibet

McCain and the Dalai Lama met for 45 minutes Friday in Colorado. The presumptive Republican nominee called on China to release Tibetan prisoners and account for any people who disappeared during an uprising earlier this year in Tibet and surrounding areas.

Thought this was something pertinent to post in lieu of the upcoming Olympics. Kudos to McCain. Of course, he had to do something to combat that spots being run on him on the Daily Show.:)

It got almost no air time though via the news.

It was on NBC here in DC *shrug*

First I've heard of it, not surpising as the media moguls all have their media darling they're all banking on.

Read banking as pushing/subsidizing/manipulating/etc/etc

A quick google of McCain Dalai Lama has Reuters, Miama Herald, Washington Post, and Yahoo! News as the top 4 links. First you heard of it, really?

Perhaps Fandros tuned in during Obama's coverage?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=obama%2C+mccain&ctab=0&geo=US&geor=all&date=ytd&sort=1

From what I can gather Trends is about number of searches in Google.

Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter

What point are you trying to make Akipt?

Top graph is searches, bottom graph is all news services... which was in response to Kelraz's statement:

A quick google of McCain Dalai Lama has Reuters, Miama Herald, Washington Post, and Yahoo! News as the top 4 links. First you heard of it, really?

First I've heard of it, not surpising as the media moguls all have their media darling they're all banking on.

Read banking as pushing/subsidizing/manipulating/etc/etc

Actually the press has been more friendly to McCain than it has been to Obama. The issue is that the McCain campaign keeps saying that they get less favorible coverage and then people start believing it.

If you say it enough it must be true, a classic political game.

It got almost no air time though via the news.


LOL..you're serious? Where do you get your TV signal from, China?

Actually I usually watch CBS/NBC/ABC among many others when I get home from work. Yes the bias may favor McCain as reported on today but bias doesnt mean much when Obama gets all the coverage. I did not say that I did not hear of it, just I heard of it from talk radio not the news, which I watch quite a bit when home.

Good or bad it seems Obama gets 80%(made up exaggeration) of all the air time while McCain seems to get the rest. McCain's coverage may be mostly good but he is rarely given much lip service.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/5899866.html

I'll say that this past week it was very true as Obama was visiting the war zones, europe etc. However if you look at the news McCain was featured speaking about the surge in a cheese aisle and then there was the stuff about that thief Phil Gramm and the changes in McCains campaign leadership and the mistakes on Iraq with the Sunni awakening and the surge.

Bottom line is McCain is an old guy who's seen better days and his campaign management is less than ok.

Ron Paul and his team have rented the Target Center for their alternative convention event in the Twin Cities during the RNC event. The papers here seem loathe to give it any press at all, usually sticking it off to the side a couple pages in, and being very spare with details.

Apparently, they have sold over 6k in tickets so far. They moved to the TC for a larger venue, figuring a large turn-out would send a message to the GOP that there are other ideas being supported than the standard campaign fodder they are wanting to run with McCain. If they want to make a statement, they need to get more tickets sold, or they will be in a half-empty arena.

I mention this in relation to the comments on the media attention given to the candidates, since they seldom gave any to Paul.

Has Paul opted to not back out of the race? I assumed he would have bowed out.

Has Paul opted to not back out of the race? I assumed he would have bowed out.

I believe both Paul and a majority of his supporters are still pissed at the total lack of respect he got from the GOP as well as the varied media. He is not even getting the courtesy of a spot in the RNC agenda to address the convention, so he has arranged for a separate setting in which to make his points regarding the state of the country and this campaign, and what kind of platform is needed to begin repairing the damages our nation has incurred.

Plus, there is still a lot of talk regarding a write-in bloc of voters.

Obama gets air time because people actually watch him and are interested in him.

For some reason, people just aren't interested in the old dude with the yellow teeth standing in a bowl of green jell-o

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/mccain-mtsdspeech2-blog.jpg

Wait, that's not Tony Blair visiting Ireland!

All I heard about today was McCain getting a chunk of skin taken off his face and looked at.

http://ladybunny.net/blog/uploaded_images/DOLLY-LLAMA-768173.jpg

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