McCain Campaign Trashes The New York Times
(CBS)
(PHILADELPHIA) – John McCain’s campaign manager Steve Schmidt lashed out at the media today, specifically the New York Times, on a conference call with – the media.
“Let's be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this race, which is this is that whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that everyday attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama,” Schmidt said.
“This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be, but let's not be dishonest and call it something other than what it is. Everything that is read in the New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective, that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate in this case John McCain and advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama."
Once a candidate that called the national media “his base,” McCain and his campaign have not held a press conference with the press corps that follows him for over a month, and Palin has yet to hold a press conference with the national media.
Schmidt’s anger has apparently bubbled over to McCain supporters as well. At a town hall in Scranton today, instead of asking the candidate a question, a woman issued a diatribe against the media.
“I also want to take the opportunity to ask the media, where is your 30 investigators over in Chicago looking at Ayers? We want the media to start doing their job and stop picking on little children because of their age and their pregnancies. Shame on you! Shame on all of you’s!”
“That is a great question,” McCain responded.
They may run out of news sources pretty soon. They have already accused Cnn, CBS and several others of being biased. Funny, FOX doesn''t seem to be among their enemies.
Do wish the Times would get on the ball and try to get the palin''s to release their tax returns.
Awe, is the big mean media making you upset? Then get out of politics!
I bet he doesn''t have a problem with FOX, Hannity, and the Limbaugh crowd.
They reported that campaign manger Rick Davis was paid almost $2 million as head of a lobbying organization that represented Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Kinda hard to attack Obama on this issue when members of your own campaign staff are pocketing millions.
Pathetic Losers. No one is listening to your crying.
OBAMA-BIDEN 2008
Even You , shameless?
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All documents available here:
www.obamacrimes.com
All Mccain supporters are right to criticize and hate Obama and all Obama''s fans are right to point out
Mc CAIn''s weaknesses!!!!!
now does everybody feel ...better...
well you should because i''m jut saying that everybody is actually right..So let''s just wait for the GE and stop yelling at each other
What you don''t know cannot hurt you?
Do a poll....in the meantime why was the Chicago Rezko story hidden from public view? Is the investigation over? Is the corruption investigation on-going? If so how will Obama avoid indictment? He and the Gov of IL were the only politicians that profited from the "pay for play" scandal...No one is reporting it...You guys sure are reporting the ethics investigation of Palin....why not get on the corruption and Obama''s obvious links to it in Chacago? Guess you think we won''t find out until you pronounce him President through a massive marketing campaign...NOBAMA
Perhaps they should consider looking within.
(you know, that quality that everybody else is supposed to have, personal responsibility)
I guess that doesn''t count for these two deity''s that have told us that they expect to be treated with ''deference''!
The NY times endorsed John McCain and Hillary Clinton, early on for the Repub and Dem tickets.
But McCain has since demonstrated that he would rather lose his honor and integrity than lose an election.
Here''s the truth:
In a letter dated August 25, two days after Biden?s father was announced as Barack Obama?s running mate in Springfield, Illinois, Biden writes that as of that date, ?I no longer expect to act as a federal lobbyist.? The letter also lists the nine clients that Biden lobbied for, including six universities. The other three are two pharmaceutical companies and a law firm that represents an internet gambling company.
McCain Campaign Principles have been borrowed from their historical brethern.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler''s propaganda minister
Palin and McCain has raised the art of the BIG LIE to a new level. They lie, cheat and steal from the American people to fund their massive corporate welfare and to preserve their power. Then they simply ignore the law an thumb their nose at lawful subpoenas. They truly believe, like the Nazis, that they can do as they please so long as they can keep the truth from the People.
Shame.
It is only fair that the McCain campaign points out the facts.
Posted by OneAmerican6
************************************* The left wing media! Surely you jest.
The whole of AMerica is beginning to look like these counties, the only difference is when Chavez takes over a corporations, the citizens don''t end up paying for it like we will.
We have the worst form of Socialism, where it only benefits the wealthy and the well-connected, and the rest of it end up paying for it.
Instead we have a media that is more than willing to discard honesty and any sense of fairness just in an attempt to get their party elected.
What a sad reflection on our society and democracy today.
And unfortunately most young people are not sophisticated enough to see through their deceit .. such that their tactics often work.
If I had a subscription I''d cancel it, alas I don''t ... all I can do is discourage others from reading it!
The GOP ticket has now become:
STEVE SCHMIDT/TUCKER BOUNDS ''08 !!!
mccain is too vacant to speak.
barbie palin is too stupid to speak.
So here comes the ssecond string---and the stupid media gives them attention instead of demanding that the REAL candidates SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. This is beyond crazy, and even more so becasue the media has just given up and now takes Screaming Steve''s comments as a news story.
What''s next? Obama''s dental hygenist gets pissed off at mccain and you print it ?? Wake up, media, you are being used and lampooned. Go FIND THE REAL CANDIDATES AND SHAME THEM INTO SPEAKING---don''t let them hide behind these paid losers.
They lie and lie and lie, then complain when their lies are exposed. "It''s the media''s fault that we keep lying about the Bridge to Nowhere". "It''s the media''s fault we lied and lied about Troopergate." "It''s the media''s fault that Palin said we might have to GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA".
McCain should change their campaign slogan to, "It''s the Media''s fault".
Then they should change their platform to something more suitable to their desires, "Close down all media that is not Far-Right talk radio and the Fox News Network".
Now THAT would be "Straight Talk" for once.
Only run words or comments or retorts that come DIRECTLY FROM THE CANDIDATES THEMSELVES.
You all are at fault for running every whiney butt thing anyone says. Palin wont talk to the media? then STOP RUNNING ANY STORIES ABOUT HER----BET SHE''LL CHANGE THAT LITTLE MIND OF HERS PRETTY FAST, EH?
Please Mr Schmidt, do tell us what the NY Times reported, that led you to say this today? Certainly, they must have lied about something. What did they report that was untrue???
Does anyone notice, this is just a blanket statement, based on nothing that happened.
Just anything they can do, to divert from the issues. And get the Republicon followers, to start foaming, as they are in the posts here.
For something to be total or complete, you can only have 100% of it. Let''s call it "McCain Math" -- where 2 equals 3. It explains a lot of his proposals.
Thanks God not everybody believes what the media say.
stay away from him as they had
in the past when he was their
"friend". McCain/Palin need to
be examined as closely as the press has already examined Obama/
Biden. In order to have a fair
election, the American people must be given the facts and the media
must be able to be impartial and
report the facts...freedom of the
press!
stay away from him as they had
in the past when he was their
"friend". McCain/Palin need to
be examined as closely as the press has already examined Obama/
Biden. In order to have a fair
election, the American people must be given the facts and the media
must be able to be impartial and
report the facts...freedom of the
press!
McCain CAMPAIGN MANAGER RICK DAVIS took MILLIONS from Failed Financial Companies to FIGHT REGULATION OF THE FINANCE INDUSTRY.
Senator John McCain%u2019s campaign manager, Rick Davis, was paid more than $30,000 a MONTH for five years (almost $2 MILLION) as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.
McCain has recently begun campaigning as a critic of the two companies and the lobbying army that helped them evade greater regulation Incensed by the advertisements, several current and former executives of the companies came forward to discuss the role that Rick Davis, Mr. McCain%u2019s campaign manager and longtime adviser, played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the summer of 2000. Some who came forward were Democrats, but Republicans, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed their descriptions.
In effect, the best thing that can happen for the supported candidate in an endeavor reliant on Karl Rove-ian techniques is that early in the process, based on party affiliation or non-issue based biases or preferences, each supporter strongly or weakly decides to vote for the target candidate and thereafter is never subjected to any new election information; 2nd preference - said supporter will automatically reject new election information critical of supported candidate based on a programmed perception that the source is illegitimate.
Of course, such %u201CBest Methods%u201D are dependent on what appears to be a Karl Rove-ian view that implicitly and emphatically asserts the general and natural gullibility or prejudice of the American electorate. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, %u201CAnd so it goes.%u201D
It is a sordid group, comprised of the America-hating, anti-Israel, and explicitly racial Left. There is big money involved, as with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and bizarre organizations to which money was funneled.
Obama%u2019s milieu is the intersection of Chicago politics and the fringe Left; there is much to be explored and explained about Obama. Below is a partial list where Obama remains unvetted:
1. Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama%u2019s 20-year membership in an explicitly racist church, a church with rhetoric too hot for Oprah.
2. Rezko. Obama%u2019s ties to Tony Rezko and the 2005 purchase of the Obamas%u2019 home. Obama funnelling money to Rezko%u2019s sleazy businesses.
3. Ayers. Obama%u2019s extensive ties to unrepentant terroist Bill Ayers.
4. Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama and Ayers together dispensing tens of millions of dollars supposedly for educational organizations.
Although now just being investigated, it%u2019s known that money was funnelled to Ayers%u2019 friend, radical Mike Klonsky, a founding member of the Maoist Party of the United States.
5. Minister Louis Farrakhan. Obama is surrounded by people like Rev. Willie Barrow, a friend and admirer of the anti-white, anti-Semitic Farrakhan.
If the media doesn%u2019t do their job, we may end up with this guy as President.
Vet Obama!
Below is a limited list of areas where the media has failed to investigate Obama.
This list does not include Obama%u2019s many policy reversals or outright fabrications, like the statement that the Kennedy family facilitated his father coming to the United States.
It does not include Obama%u2019s habit of voting %u2018present%u2019 as a member of the Illinois State Senate nor his strange maneuverings regarding a born alive bill.
Instead, the list below concerns Obama%u2019s associates and business dealings.
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Posted by Alicerea1 at 07:08 AM : Sep 23, 2008
what else do you want done, that''s not already been done ? What you''ve just wasted time posting has already been known for months and most Americans like me have already decided that they''re not important enough to make me vote against my interests. But you listen to Repugs and you''re surprised what they want done to Obama but won''t accept for Palin, who may have actually lied about being the mother of Trig - Most people i''ve seen believe someone that''ll do something as heinous as that, deserves no Public Office besides people have been convicted for less in this country and maybe NEVER in Alaska. If she''s not experienced enough, she''ll never be after she gets elected. A state of 650,000 less that the district that Obama represented will in his state senate & now rep. over 13million in the US Senate. Cheers!
Posted by azure11 at 04:51 PM : Sep 22, 2008
They really need to start pointing out what the falsehood or lies actually are in what''s being reported instead of just ranting like Pigs ( especially with lipstick on). Cheers! ...... I''ll bet, they''ll shut up when called out on it - There''s a very good reason they''re against the media right now.
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by jensenjas
September 23, 2008 2:41 PM PDT
- for all those who are so quick to condemn mccain on being closely tied to fannie mae and freddie mac: keep in mind that obama is #2 on the list of senators receiving contributions from fannie and freddie. put your bias aside and stick to the facts. both candidates have ties to these organizations. obama is not exempt.
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