RYMB

As Cuffy Meigs notes, even though the original ad can still be seen on McCain’s Website, CBS Forces YouTube To Yank McCain’s “Lipstick”:

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Instead they piss off CBS, get everyone talking about media bias, network anchor egos, and YouTube censorship, which fuels the rabid curiosity of those who missed it the first time and forces McCain to produce a new Couric-free version of the ad which then extends the life of this poisonous story for another 2-3 news cycles.

Rove you magnificent bastard.

Or maybe SYMB–Schmidt You Magnificent Bastard. In any case, between the Obama-As-Celebrity riffs, the Palin for PUMAs pick, and now this little gem handed to them by their transnational friends at CBS and Google (who owns YouTube), McCain’s campaign has done a great job of political jujitsu. Somebody there is quite adept at using the left’s mindset against them remarkably well.

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