ABC's Jake Tapper implies that McCain's newest attack ad is racist

ABC's Jake Tapper defended John McCain a few weeks ago against possible charges of having lanched racist attacks against Obama. It seems that now even Tapper has been convinced.

Today's Campaign Contest: Count the Young White Women in McCain's Anti-Obama Video

August 12, 2008 9:30 AM

How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count in this anti-Obama web video that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, was sending out yesterday?

One...two...three...four...sure are a lot of young white women in this thing....

Why do you think they put so many young white women professing their love for Obama in what is clearly an anti-Obama video? What would possibly be negative about young white women liking Sen. Obama?

When asked, the McCain campaign says they took the video from local news packages, but of course that doesn't explain anything.

It's interesting that the corporate media generally keeps letting McCain get away with this sleaze. Had Obama run ads calling McCain a senile old adulterer married to a drug addict we'd never hear the end of it from McCain and the corporate media. But McCain continues this sleazy bizarre attack on Obama and where is the media? Why aren't they all asking McCain every single day why he lied about never going negative? Why he's given up on being a maverick? Why he no longer talks to the media? Why his campaign days have grown so short? Why he no longer seems to even be in charge of his own campaign?

This is how Swift Boats are started. And it's already begun. It's time for the media, and Obama, to blow McCain out of the water. As for the Obama campaign, don't confirm or deny that McCain is going racist, let him defend himself. When asked about it, just say "we're not going to comment on John McCain's childish antics, we've got a war to fight and an economy to save." Let McCain defend himself when independents start walking because they realize that while John McCain's base embraces intolerance, independents won't like it one bit.