Pandagon

The handicapping of McCain's campaign by the media is becoming brutally obvious during the DNCC. Between the lack of coverage for major speeches and puffing up the whole "PUMA" storyline to be a much bigger thing than it is, it's becoming undeniable. Skimping on the Lily Ledbetter speech was especially irresponsible, because it was a great opportunity to educate the public about this under-covered story. Ledbetter, of course, is the woman who was openly discriminated against by her employer Goodyear, watching less qualified men get promoted and raises while she languished for years. What made her case especially terrible is that it shows that our hard right-leaning Supreme Court will basically lie and color outside of the lines in order to push an anti-woman agenda---because they knew they couldn't outright claim that women aren't covered by the "equal protection" clause in the Constitution (much less the Civil Rights Act), the court fudged with a bullshit story about filing deadlines. If the public knew more about this case, they'd revolt. If they knew that McCain refused to support the bill named after Ledbetter that made it harder to deny women equality with bullshit like this, many people would see McCain for the hard right winger he is, who openly refuses to support something as basic as equal pay for equal work, which is as popular as women's suffrage.