John McCain - Should We Call Him Jan Brady?

[Median Democrat]

Listening to the new whiney commercial from the McCain camp, I can only picture John McCain stewing in his campaign headquarters as he gave the okay for the ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZHveWFvqM

[Barack_America]

1. Perfect!

"Obama Obama Obama" :cry:

I love, l-o-v-e it.

[Median Democrat]

2. The Irony Is That John McCain Has Been The Media Darling For So Long...

...That he just comes off like Jan Brady complaining about her more popular and prettier sister.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Whiny and jealous is McCain.

Marsha Marsha Marsha

The line was originally used is the hit TV show The Brady Bunch. The character Jan was complaining Marsha, her sister, was getting all the attention at a party and got so upset that she whined "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!"

Primary definition: A whiny dramatic response by someone who is jealous of another person. The name Marsha could be changed with the name of any person you're mad at. "

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Marsha+Marsha+Marsha

NYT online article:

Starry-Eyed Media Breed Green-Eyed Candidates

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: July 30, 2008

......
But Senator John McCain has ushered “the media” back to the stage early this year. He seems to be newly amazed, and annoyed, at each turn by how deeply in the tank the press allegedly is for Senator Barack Obama.
It is no secret, of course, that Mr. McCain himself has enjoyed one of the coziest relationships with the media for years. A pair of new studies of the network evening news suggests that it continues: While Mr. Obama has received almost twice as much coverage as Mr. McCain since the end of the Democratic primaries, Mr. McCain’s coverage is proportionately more positive than Mr. Obama’s, the studies conclude.

.....
So we seem to have a new phenomenon here in modern presidential politics — the specter of dueling media darlings. Both candidates say that the media is fawning over the other guy, protecting the other guy, elevating the other guy. The campaign is increasingly taking on the air of a Smothers Brothers routine, in which both camps complain that, “Mom always liked you best.”

.....
So we seem to have a new phenomenon here in modern presidential politics — the specter of dueling media darlings. Both candidates say that the media is fawning over the other guy, protecting the other guy, elevating the other guy. The campaign is increasingly taking on the air of a Smothers Brothers routine, in which both camps complain that, “Mom always liked you best.”
And now comes some empirical evidence suggesting that while Mr. Obama has received more press coverage than Mr. McCain, Mr. McCain’s coverage has been more positive, at least up until Mr. Obama’s expertly stage-crafted trip overseas last week.

.....Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said that Mr. McCain had been having a hard time exciting his base and cautioned that press-bashing is not always effective. He recalled the 1992 campaign, when supporters of the first President Bush sported bumper stickers saying, “Annoy the media: Re-elect Bush.”

“Generally, when I find candidates relying on that, I know they’re going to lose,” Mr. Sabato said. “Bashing the media is a dead giveaway, along with citing Harry Truman.”
Complaints on liberal blogs say that the media basically overlooks Mr. McCain’s gaffes and is devoted to him in the long run because he gives reporters an unusual degree of access.

Still, it must be galling for Mr. McCain to watch as the media now shines its lights on someone new. The first President Bush was blunt about his own reaction as he watched Mr. Obama overseas: “I’m jealous,” he told reporters.
Perhaps our own Caucus readers best summed up the dynamic of the McCain-Obama struggle over the media. “Face it,” one reader wrote a few days ago in response to Mr. McCain’s Frankie Valli ad. “McCain has been dumped by the media for the younger, vivacious, good-looking Obama. Consider joining the First Wives’ Club, John McCain.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30web-seelye.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1217520469-OVj4TyXXxwKDnNlWgq16+A

[Happyhippychick]

4. New name: McMarsha Marsha Marsha

[blondeatlast]

5. Next thing you know, we'll get the "New John," remember this?

[madwivoter]

6. Jan it is.

I love it :)