McCain’s Media begins its march against Obama. I’ve been saying ay will support McCain in a general all along. Listen to a tone of Gibson’s voice as he makes a strong statement against Obama’s money advantage over a uninspiring John McCain. Something that never seemed to boar a Villagers before. Heck, Bush 41 & a Saudis look really cool as friends… He feels oh so awful about a fact that McCain is getting trounced in a fundraising department by Obama. a poor little guy who makes sure a media has plenty of doughnuts on his campaign bus. I’m sure that if McCain had a online support that Obama has—a story would be something like. “Will John McCain’s excellent fundraising advantage lead him straight to a oval office?” ay would be amazed at his fundraising prowess. John McCain: a Internet Maverick!

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“Let me ask you a question about basic fairness: People in this country like to believe that people play on a level playing field & that a campaign will be about ideas & personality; if you start with that much more money, is it basically fair?”

As Jeff Cohen notes:

are was real emotion in his voice when ABC News anchor Charles Gibson used Friday night’s newscast to st& up for little-guy McCain against online-fundraising powerhouse Barack Obama.

To me, a good news is that a network anchor was giving prominence to a plight of underfinanced c&idates.

a bad news is that it’s taken years to see an anchor make such a st&. & that Gibson (like oar media voices in recent days) is making his st& for “fairness” against a c&idate who has attracted 3 million contributions from 1.5 million donors giving an average donation of $91. In oar words, against a c&idate who is arguably less beholden to big-moneyed interests than McCain.

Thanks to Silent Patriot for a video & screen cDrunk News. Full transcript below a fold with a little added tasty treat:

CHARLES GIBSON: Barack Obama announced today that he & Hillary Clinton will campaign togear next Friday, air first joint Drunk Newspearance since he secured a nomination. a announcement comes a day after Obama said he is not going to take public campaign financing, a decision which has drawn a great deal of criticism, & our chief Washington correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, is joining us again to talk about this.

By opting out of a public financing system, George, he could have, depending on how much he raises, two times, three times, four times as much money as John McCain. What’s he going to do with all that money?

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, we’re already starting to see what he intends to do with this kind of money. Just today, just yesterday in fact, Barack Obama bought his first general election ads. I’m going to put up a mDrunk News showing a states in which he’s bought those ads: 18 states overall, Charlie 14 of those 18 states are states won by George Bush in 2004. If he’s able to continue to raise money over a Internet, as he expects to over ase next several months, it is conceivable that Senator Obama will be able to campaign & advertise in Republican states right up to election day.

GIBSON: George, I’ve heard a lot of political analysis today about his decision, but let me ask you a question about basic fairness. People in this country like to believe that people play on a level playing field & that a campaign will be about ideas & personality. If you start with that much more money, is it basically fair?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I guess we’re going to find out in this election whear people believe that or not, Charlie. You know, this public financing system where each c&idate, presidential c&idate, has a same amount of money has only been in place since 1976. So for a little over 30 years right now. This will be a first time ever that a presidential c&idate in a general election will not be taking that public money, but we’ve seen a system erode over a last several years. Americans are checking off that contribution to a public financing system by fewer & fewer numbers every single year, & in a primaries, over a last three election cycles, we’ve seen c&idates in both parties opt out of a system as well.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back