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The Geniuses Running McCain's Campaign Continue To Amaze.
Blah3 Feed —
Now they're cutting off networks who criticize Sarah Palin. Wolf Blitzer just reported that the campaign has cancelled a scheduled interview with Larry King due to an unfriendly segment last night on CNN . . . where the network's Campbell Brown grilled McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds over Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience. Blitzer said the McCain campaign complained that Campbell Brown's grilling of Tucker Bounds over Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience was "over the line." McCain's boys better get ...
John McCain: Cut & Run
Oliver Willis —
John McCain is running away from a CNN interview because they asked his surrogate tough questions.
McCain Goes Vindictive On CNN, Cancels Larry King Live Appearance
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... ? Well, John McCain remembers! And as punishment for CNN daring to impose some level of journalistic rigor, McCain has abruptly canceled a scheduled appearance on Larry King Live tonight. Via TPM: ...
Will McCain And GOP Make Press The Issue?
The Moderate Voice —
... its preferred message.
Press relations with McCain have been souring steadily since the campaign slapped greater discpline on all operations and campaign message. The first big sign was the shockingly sour and evasive interview McCain gave to Time Magazine. If you read it, you’ll be hard pressed to recall any interview with a candidate of any political party quite like it in a Time or Newsweek Q&A.
Now, as the progressive blog America blog and some others report, McCain has cancelled a CNN interiview because he didn’t like ...
Remainders: "Transpartisan"
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
... The McCain campaign cancels the candidate's interview with Wolf Blitzer because of the Tucker Bounds/ Campbell Brown showdown from yesterday, ...
McCain snubs CNN; not ABC
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... CNN's Wolf Blitzer said on the air this afternoon that the McCain campaign canceled an interview with Larry King because of last night's heated exchange between Campbell Brown and spokesperson Tucker Bounds, regarding Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience. ...
A plea for civility
The Poor Man Institute —
... or, indeed, any judgment at all. Perhaps so. This is very easy for us to say, with our worldly experience, acquired through countless naive mistakes exactly like the one we now seem so eager to condemn. The answer to lapsed judgment is not judgment made in haste. Let us judge, instead, with our hearts, and think about our own youthful indiscretions. If you were anything like me, you were probably just as romantic and foolhardy when you were 72. Let us please respect their mutual desire for ...
CNN Does its Job, McCain Punishes It
Informed Comment —
Campbell Brown of CNN asks McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds some hard questions about Sarah Palin's national security experience and refuses to let him get away with illogical and self-contradictory answers. John McCain was furious (and no one can be furious the way he can) and cancelled his planned interview on CNN in a fit of pique.
Today on The Lionel Show - Wednesday September 3rd.
The Latest on Air America —
... would be mighty unwise to do so. I watch a lot of TV for someone who doesn’t own one, and I’ve not seen one person on CNN or MSNBC or ABC actually suggest that Palin’s character can be questioned in the wake of revelations of her daughter’s pregnancy. Not even close. All I’ve seen people saying is the exact opposite – that the media absolutely cannot and should not do so. If this is being tarred and feathered, pass the bucket – it doesn’t look all that bad. And now we learn that John McCain has cancelled an interview with CNN because of the way Tucker Bounds was (they ...
Klein: McCain's media war is "stupidly aggressive" and "unprofessional"
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Time's Joe Klein fires back at the McCain campaign's strategy to attack the media for reporting on Sarah Palin. Targets the past two days have included the NY Times, CNN, and Newsweek. Fred Thompson helped push the campaign's media-bashing talking points in his Tuesday night speech.
"McCain is just plain angry at us," Klein writes, as one reason behind the new strategy. Indeed, the candidate's bizarre answers to simple questions in the recent issue of Time back that up. The other reason, Klein writes, is Steve Schmidt's tactical ...
Scott Shrake: McCain's Sandbag: Revenge on Obama, Served Cold?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... that you have now questioned my sincerity and my desire to put aside politics for the public interest is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator
McCain soon publicly said his temper had cooled, he claimed the two had "moved on."
Ah, but we've all heard McCain can be a little vindictive. And revenge is a dish best served cold.
As the race between Obama and McCain ...
