MOBILE DEVICES
Free Headline Alerts     
Worldwide Web WorldTribune.com

  breaking... 


Monday, September 14, 2009     FOLLOW UPDATES ON TWITTER

Who is 'Republican' Mark McKinnon and why does he get good press?

The following is based on a report for Accuracy in Media by Cliff Kincaid.

On the day of the Sept. 12 protest on the Washington Mall, the Washington Post tried to depict the protesters showing up in Washington, D.C. as extremists. In order to give that attack some semblance of credibility, the paper ran a story quoting “a former adviser” to Republican senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, Mark McKinnon, as saying that he was afraid that “right-wing nutballs” and “freaks” would dominate media coverage of the event.   

The Post failed to disclose McKinnon's liberal ties. He came to our attention in June when he garnered press attention by urging Republicans not to oppose Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. He considered her record and the substantive charges against her not worth talking about. He even went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to bash conservative opponents of Sotomayor.

He had previously won the admiration of the left by resigning from his role as media consultant for the McCain presidential campaign because he had promised that he would not be involved in any effort to defeat Obama for president. At the time, McKinnon said that Obama’s election “would send a great message to the country and the world.”


Also In This Edition

It is not surprising that he is now the “go-to” guy when the liberal media want a quotation designed to undercut or mock conservatives.

McKinnon is the vice-chairman of Public Strategies, the firm which employs Richard Wolffe, former senior correspondent for Newsweek and MSNBC commentator. Wolffe’s book, Renegade, about Barack Obama, represents Obama’s childhood mentor, Communist Frank Marshall Davis, as just a black activist. Wolffe was hired by Public Strategies to gain access to Obama’s inner circle so that McKinnon and his fellow lobbyists, including Dan Bartlett, former counselor to President George W. Bush, can make their political “bipartisan” deals and big money.

On the Maddow show, McKinnon called himself a “progressive Republican.” The term “progressive” is preferred by those who used to be known as “liberal.” His own bio quotes Obama as calling him a “class act.” No wonder the liberal papers like the Washington Post and New York Times love him.

McKinnon can refer to the 9-12 protesters as “nutballs” and “freaks,” but what I saw on Saturday in Washington, D.C. were ordinary people, many with their families, very concerned about the foreign ideology of Marxism being implemented in the United States. I took dozens of photos of the participants. Some were military veterans who fought and sacrificed to preserve the U.S. Constitution and don’t like what America has become under Obama. Many were parents who don’t want their children saddled with enormous financial debt. Young people who showed up were concerned about the government intruding more and more into their lives. Others are afraid of Obama’s attempt to seize control of the health care sector, and what this will mean for the elderly.

Is it nuts to want to save your country, Mr. McKinnon?

James Rosen of McClatchy newspapers, also on September 12, used McKinnon for another liberal purpose, citing the “prominent Republican strategist” as saying that South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson should be defeated next year for calling Obama a liar during his speech to Congress. This is the only way to “change the political discourse” in the country, McKinnon said. The quote was taken from a column that McKinnon writes for The Daily Beast, a website financed by pro-homosexual champion Barry Diller.

Diller and his editor, liberal commentator Tina Brown, are the people McKinnon is comfortable with.

The liberal papers continue to use him because they want to fool the public into thinking that opposing Obama, his policies, and his nominees is not popular with prominent “Republicans” like McKinnon.

But people like those at the 9-12 rally are not fooled by such tricks.

Check out the YouTube video of a CNN reporter being drowned out by 9-12 demonstrators chanting “Tell the truth” and “No more lies.”

The same admonition should apply to the media touting the phony “Republican” McKinnon.



About Us     l    Contact Us     l    Geostrategy-Direct.com     l    East-Asia-Intel.com
Copyright © 2009    East West Services, Inc.    All rights reserved.