Comments on: McCain: "We Will Come Home In Victory"

Exclusive: Ariz. Senator Tells Katie Couric Obama Does Not Understand Challenges The U.S. Faces In Iraq

[newjack86]

Guys, I''m pretty upset about this too but I doubt Katie Couric is responsible for editing the interview.

The only thing she is guilty of is being a bad journalist--which is kind of ironic considering she just accused other journalists of "not doing their job" during the Democratic primary. Why didn''t she catch the mistake or make sure it was aired? Why isn''t she pushing CBS to cover the story now?

Katie, you need to be more proactive or else producers will continue to screw you over. First the blog plagiarism incident and now this? Come on, you need to take your career into your own hands and make more decisions.

[lambor59]

Or we will win when all Bush bank accounts filled up with our tax pay dollars.

[lambor59]

We already won, you stupid old man.

[sps11111]

This is just too outrageous for words. An interviewer cannot substitute answers from other questions. This is not editing it is deception. Never will I watch Katie Couric nor cbsnews again, they are not trustworthy.

[juliekay44]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/23/by_howard_kurtz_when_cbss.html

When CBS''s Katie Couric interviewed John McCain on Tuesday, her producers edited one exchange to include part of McCain''s answer to a previous question on Iraq -- and, in the process, deleted comments that have touched off a controversy.

The "CBS Evening News" interview began with Couric quoting Barack Obama as saying that "there might have been improved security even without the surge. What''s your response to that?"

But what viewers saw next was not what the Arizona senator said next, an out-of-order sequence that news organizations generally do not allow. It was McCain''s earlier comment that "Senator Obama has indicated by his failure to acknowledge the success of the surge that he would rather lose a war than lose a campaign." That was spliced into the second part of his subsequent answer, the editing break covered by a still photo of McCain with Gen. David Petraeus.

Left on the cutting-room floor was McCain accusing Obama of "a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that''s just a matter of history."

more at the Washington Post

[airjackie]

Katie did a great job for the GOP in making sure the mistake McCain made was cut from the report. Now we already knew that Katie was using propaganda for the GOP as she is a White House insider. But the good news is now Americans know CBS is part of the Bush Team too. One would think only Fox News and ABC were working hard to spin the GOP lies and help McCain take over the White House. At lease McCain has three major stations spreading lies and covering up his mistake as Bush only had Fox News and Karl Rove. Let''s see if it works third time with the American people now that we''re in a recession. Yes as McCain says Obama caused the high oil prices and next we''ll hear Obama alone put us in a recession.
Hillary was attacked from all sides even by Katie the only female Anchor. One would have hoped Katie would have supported a qualified woman running for President but she didn''t. Female viewers have noticed Katie and that''s why her rating are low and will never big as big as Brian Williams.

[djohnson35]

Have you no journalistic ethics? Where is the apology for your editing "error"? You just lost the last remnant of any credibility you ever had.

[royfan5]

Has Katie been fired yet? Until she is I will believe that CBS "News" intentially lied to the American people. Doctoring the interview to hide McCain''s huge gaffe is the type of fraud that needs to be remedied with extreme measures.

[stn_sage]

In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of.

Posted by getcentered at 06:54 PM : Jul 23, 2008
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Excellent point! People will probably have a mental schism the day we go back to a reality-based society instead of the Bizaro-world parallel dimension that Bush & co have created and that we live in today!

I''d say there are good times ahead and a thriving job market for counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists over the next 2-3 years! :)

[dgla--2008]

When can we look forward to having CBS admit to substituting a fake answer to Katie Couric''s question by airing it on CBS news?

What a sad commentary on the Republican biased press.

[saracullen1]

This is the news media at their worse - and every citizen should expect better than lies covered by a poor excuse for an anchor. How is CBS News different than the Enquire reporting on alien babies? They are both based on lies and false reporting.

[stn_sage]

Can''''t the senile old fool get anything correct. McSame''''s age-related dementia is getting worse by the day, and there''''s nothing the GOP can do about it.

Posted by caliguy55 at 08:23 PM : Jul 23, 2008
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Terrible, isn''t it?! It seems like it''s been getting worse the last two weeks especially, probably because of the increased pressure he''s been under!

But the point is, the pressure is going to get worse, MUCH WORSE! And if he can''t handle it now, what happens when he gets in the Oval Office, and he gets P.O.''ed over a call he''s had, and that little attache case with the launch contols and codes are right there in the bottom desk draw?!

I want to see Armaggedon in the movie theaters, I don''t want to live it in real life!

[rap122]

I must tell you folks at CBS that after this MAJOR gaffe, I will never again rely on you for news, either via TV or the web. If you find it acceptable to substitute an answer from a previous question in an "exclusive" TV interview of a major party presidential candidate, which results in COMPLETELY changing the meaning of how he REALLY answered, I cannot rely on you for worthy news coverage. Goodbye CBS. Long live Walter Cronkite.

[ioweign]

Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather Jr. was forced out for what...

[caliguy55]

Sen. Obama has been right from the very beginning. Iraq is a huge distraction that has cost us dearly interms of blood and treasure. Even McSame admits that Bush''s Iraq policy was a failure.

WRONG AGAIN!!!

"Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening," McCain said, referring to the U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Anbar province. "I mean, that''s just a matter of history."

The problem with McCain''s statement %u2014 as Obama''s campaign quickly noted %u2014 was that the awakening got under way before President Bush announced in January 2007 his decision to flood Iraq with tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops to help combat violence.


In March 2007, before the first of the additional troops began arriving in Iraq, Col. John W. Charlton, the American commander responsible for Ramadi, a city in Anbar province, said the newly friendly sheiks, combined with an aggressive counterinsurgency strategy and the presence of thousands of new Sunni police on the streets, had helped cut attacks in the city by half in recent months.

A spokesman for McCain did not immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment."

Can''t the senile old fool get anything correct. McSame''s age-related dementia is getting worse by the day, and there''s nothing the GOP can do about it.

[ioweign]

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr, where are you when we need you...

[truthspeake2]

Hey McSame...define "Victory".

[stn_sage]

Posted by wcj11 at 07:19 PM : Jul 23, 2008
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I''d pose the following comments to yours:

1. You insinuate because violence & deaths are down, we are winning. After 5 years, NO ONE expected the violence & death to continue at the rate it has, we don''t know if it will stay down, but it doesn''t mean we are winning.

2. Do you really believe militiamen do everything their leaders say? Whenever they''re told something? You''re naive.

3. By waging a war in Iraq, Bush created tens of thousands of terrorists. They may run away, but they live to fight another day!

4. Long-term strategy?! LOL! What a joke! You''re mad! At least you admit the initial strategy was ignorant. Al qaeda wasn''t been cornered. Cornering them is like conducting a cattle-drive of cats! That is, it''s not very effective.

5. Until the Iraqi govt effects political change, we can''t stabilize the area, and unless you''ve conveniently forgotten, they want us out, soon!
So, they may never feel the thunder of American military break their will! In yrs. 6,7, or 8!

6. Your vision is illusory at best. But it provides the politicians with the excuse to keep the war going that gets our soldiers killed. In the end, a few years from now, people won''t recall the ''necessity'' to wage
war there; but for now, people like you with their ''hoorays'' and ''flag-waving'' help to indirectly get our countrymen and women killed!

[psroberts7]

And to those flying monkey republicanazi who seem to think that this news media is "liberal", here''s a fun URL you can go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/mccain-gets-history-of-th_n_114419.html

As far as I''m concerned, this bozo and his supporters who would go to war over oil are no diffrent than the Nazis of WWII who would exterminate the Jews in the name of the fatherland.

[psroberts7]

Boy, what a crock.....the people in other countries see it right; McCain IS another bush, and will bring nothing but dishonor and complete meltdown of the economy of the US; all in the name of his thousand-year-war.