MSM Misses McCain's Pandering to Paranoid Christians with Tall Tales of Obama as Antichrist

[babsbunny]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/352

The collective eye-roll over Sen. John McCain's religious campaign ad attacking Obama's supposedly grand ego truly misses the point. While many are able to find a laugh in the idea that Obama was sent to the Earth by the devil, there are frightening numbers of people who may be buying into the idea.

McCain's seemingly innocuous ad called "The One" received a fair amount of media coverage. ABC News, The New York Times, and others derided the ad for "mocking" Obama as "Messianic." A McCain spokesperson picked up on this, passing off the ad as a kind of TGIF moment: