When Will The News Media Require John McCain To Disown The Crazies In His Campaign?

Posted by: AzBlueMeanie

Sen. Barack Obama has denounced and disowned his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The Washington Post in an editorial Parting With the Pastor – washingtonpost.com concluded that “we don’t see how anyone can question his commitment to transcending old racial battles and finding common ground.  The Rev. Wright doesn’t speak for the candidate, and we hope the pastor doesn’t become a continuing excuse for political ads built on racial fears.”

The New York Times in an editorial Mr. Obama and Rev. Wright – New York Times said that “it was the most forthright repudiation of an out of control supporter that we can remember.”  Obama’s “opponents also have a responsibility – to repudiate the race baiting and make sure it stops.”

Which begs the question: When will the news media require Sen. John McCain to denounce and disown the racist and bigoted supporters in his campaign with the same vigorous fixation the news media has shown for Barack Obama and his Pastor Wright?

When will McCain renounce his association with and disown a white supremacist named Richard Quinn, who was hired by McCain as a political advisor in 2000 (he is believed to still be an advisor to his campaign) after openly praising Klansman David Duke (he called him a “maverick”), selling T-shirts praising the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and writing/editing for a magazine (Southern Partisan) that claimed slave owners really weren’t all that bad.  Cliff Schecter: John McCain’s White Supremacist Problem – Politics on The Huffington Post

When will McCain renounce and disown the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, whose endorsement was actively pursued and sought out by McCain?  Catholics United, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and InsideCatholic have called upon McCain to reject Hagee’s endorsement because of his virulent hate speech towards Catholics. Hagee has said that God will send terrorists to create a “bloodbath” in the U.S. to punish us for supporting a two state solution in Israel/Palestine. McCain Can’t Quit John Hagee: Right Wing Televangelist Blames Hurricane Katrina on Gay Pride and More [VIDEO] | Video | AlterN  The apocalyptic end-timer has also called for a preemptive military strike against Iran to fulfill biblical prophesy and bring about the rapture and Second Coming of Christ.  McCain ‘Very Honored’ By Support Of Pastor Preaching ‘End-Time Confrontation With Iran’

When will McCain renounce and disown the endorsement of Pastor Rod Parsley, whom McCain has called his “spiritual guide?” Parsley has said that the government, by funding Planned Parenthood, is complicit in genocide against African Americans. McCain Spiritual Guide Accused Gov’t Of Enabling ‘Black Genocide’ – Politics on The Huffington Post  Parsley, like Pastor Hagee, is an apocalyptic end-timer who has called for Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam to destroy Islam. John McCain’s "Spiritual Guide" Calls For Destruction Of Islam – Politics on The Huffington Post 

Six years after labeling the late Rev. Jerry Falwell one of the political “agents of intolerance,” McCain groveled before Falwell by agreeing to deliver a commencement address at his Liberty University in pursuit of Falwell’s endorsement.  Here is Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on the 700 Club on September 13, 2001, saying that Americans are to blame for 9/11 and that "God continues to lift the curtain and to allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”  YouTube – Falwell and Robertson on The 700 Club after 9/11

It is only a difference of symantics from Rev. Wright’s comments.  Does McCain share the beliefs and values of these crazy individuals whom he activey pursued and sought out their endorsement?

The news media, who invented media darling John McCain, continue to apply a “black and white” double standard to their coverage of this presidential campaign.  What does this say about the inherent biases of the news media?  John McCain should be held to the same exacting standards to which Barack Obama has been held.  End the double standard.