From Robert Greenwald bravenewpac.org

Dear Supporter,

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

Former POW says McCain is “not cut out to be President”

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know: friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don’t share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg.

And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain’s POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it’s cut across all political persuasions.

• Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. - Edwin Chen, Bloomberg

• Noun, Verb, POW - Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly

• The McCain campaign’s constant invocation of the candidate’s POW past is weird bordering on irrational… - Ana Marie Cox, TIME

• I think they are going to it way too many times. - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as A noun, a verb, and 9/11? Well, let’s actually take Andrew Sullivan’s lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: A noun, a verb, and POW. Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn’t that what they’re already doing?

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team

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Conservative echo chamber pushes story about Obama’s brother, despite brother’s reported refutation

From Media Matters: Numerous conservative media figures have promoted a story in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that reportedly quoted Sen. Barack Obama’s half brother George Obama as saying that he lives “on less than a dollar a month,” but have disregarded reports that quoted George Obama saying, “They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don’t want my brother to win,” and, “The magazines, they exaggerated everything.”

Latest McCain AD - On Obama’s Half Brother In Kenya

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The Republican ‘dogs‘ will stop at nothing, in their frenzied “take-no-prisoners” effort to sink Obama. The pitbulls (e.g. Sean Hannity), the rottweilers (e.g Rush Limbaugh) are all over radio and TV yelping lies and innuendo like animals infected with rabies.

“The job is to win,” former GOP operative Allen Raymond. “…You have an obligation to do the best job you can to get the outcome your clients want, which is to win.” …at any cost, with re-cycled smears, lies and GOD-HOGGING.

They (Republicans) don’t care if families or reputations are destroyed. They are marauders — a pack of hungry RATS attacking rotten meat!

Look what they did — attacked Iraq based on lies and dropped thousands of tons of bombs on innocent Iraqi’s in their quest for oil.

These people (Republicans), in my opinion are much worse than ALKAIDA!

They are Terrorists.

Terrorists when then stole this land (the U.S.) from the Indians and the Mexicans, to when they enslaved, killed and raped blacks with impunity, to now that they are killing and maiming innocent Iraqis based on criminal falsehoods — so that they can STEAL more….Arab OIL!

McCain is slithering in bed with the same attack machine that in 2000, while competing against Bush, in the primaries, lied to voters that his(McCain’s) adopted daughter from Bangladesh was an “illegitimate black child.”

Republican RACISM is putrid and their determination to WIN whatever the cost, is worse than the determination a hungry ‘lactating‘ female hyena scavenging on a dead corpse.

‘Grogan‘ a participant at a popular Kenyan Forum, had this to say:

Well Said.

Reference: Right-Wing ‘Missionary Thugs’ Digging For ‘Obama Dirt’ in Kenya — Right-wing Christian Activists in the United States are attempting to use Senator Barack Obama’s Kenyan links to discredit him.

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