The Real McCain
  • September 9, 2008

The Real McCain

The Real McCain

Worried about the McCain/Palin bump in the polls? Looking for a way to put that nervous energy to useful effect? Our friends at Brave New Films have been busy documenting the GOP ticket’s perfidies and distortions in a series of timely videos exposing the real McCain as a out-of-touch double talker who supports a costly war in Iraq but won’t support our veterans when they come home.

This first video in the series — the Real McCain — has reached an astonishing four million views on YouTube.

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Worried about the McCain/Palin bump in the polls? Looking for a way to put that nervous energy to useful effect? Our friends at Brave New Films have been busy documenting the GOP ticket’s perfidies and distortions in a series of timely videos exposing the real McCain as a out-of-touch double talker who supports a costly war in Iraq but won’t support our veterans when they come home.

This first video in the series — the Real McCain — has reached an astonishing four million views on YouTube.

There are now four subsequent videos in this vein. Watch them all here. If you want to help spread the word on the RealMcCain, join the McCain Truth Squad and each week Brave New Films will send McCain videos for you to forward on with a personal note to your friends, colleagues and family members.

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Peter Rothberg Peter Rothberg is the The Nation’s associate publisher.


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