At his rally in Tampa Sen. Obama talks about removing the dominance of the special interests in Washington.

We're entering record-breaking territory here.  Since The Real McCain 2 launched this past Sunday, over 1 million people have seen it!  It's been the #1 most viewed video on YouTube, #1 on the viral video chart, and the #2 story on the Digg Election 2008 page.  We're reaching an audience that most cable news shows only dream of. 

We knew the press's inexplicably blind love for McCain has led to a dearth of accurate reportage regarding his record on the issues.  We knew the corporate media have been going far easier on McCain than on either Obama or Clinton.  Now that we have the numbers, we know that the general public hungers for the truth about the so-called "Maverick." 

We've reached a critical juncture in this presidential campaign.  For the last seven years, the mainstream press has sacrificed its objectivity and courage in a pathetic attempt to appease conservatives lest they be painted left-leaning. 

We need to continue spreading videos like The Real McCain 2, passing them along to friends and coworkers, and raising the national discourse until our pleas for unbiased, hard-hitting journalism are heard by the corporate media.  

And it has to happen now, especially when the presumptive GOP nominee can't get his basic facts right on Iran.  Especially when the press is obsessed with Jeremiah Wright but won't go after McCain's endorsements (which he sought) from the viciously anti-Semitic Rev. John Hagee or the deeply bigoted Rev. Rod Parsley.  Especially when White House lackey Ed Gillespie is going on Glenn Beck's show to call for a boycott of NBC.  Especially when Bill O'Reilly and FOX News are parroting the White House once again, assailing NBC, MSNBC, and their parent company, General Electric.  And especially when Karl Rove is attacking Democrats on FOX News, which refuses to identify him as an informal McCain adviser or maxed-out donor. 

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Against John McCain, Barack Obama faces a bigger challenge among white voters nationwide than does Hillary Clinton.

Geraldine Ferraro on NBC's Today Show, May 20, 2008

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TBN aired a sermon yesterday by televangelist and prominent McCain ally John Hagee in which he performed a kind of stand-up routine on the generation gap, having grown up, he said, before television, penicillin, and gay rights. Older folks' views become "entrenched," and therefore, he said, they are demanding a federal anti-gay marriage amendment.

VoteVets.org has launched a new ad today, in which veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan implore Senator McCain to vote for the bi-partisan Webb-Hagel GI Bill.

We need to keep the pressure up on McCain to support our vets.  It's one of the biggest hypocrisies of his campaign.  

John McCain policy adviser Nancy Photenhauer, May 16, 2008

Barack and Michelle Obama on ABC's Good Morning America, May 19, 2008

75,000 people at Waterfront Park in Portland.