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McCain's four-week anniversary
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Previously, I've mentioned the McCain campaign's strategy of cutting back access to the national press, but Fox embed Mosheh Oinounou writes how long its actually been: "Today marks the four-week anniversary since McCain held his last press conference" ...
A month since last presser, McCain embraces "celebrity" campaigning
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Fox's McCain embed Mosheh Oinounou has a smart post on the McCain style post-Palin:
PHILADELPHIA, PA — For a candidate who once railed against “stale soundbites, staged rallies and over-managed messages,” John McCain seems to have turned over a new leaf.
Today marks the four-week anniversary since McCain held his last press conference (8/13 in Birmingham, MI) and three weeks since his last public town hall meeting (8/20 in Las Cruces, NM).
McCain’s new campaign strategy: staged rallies with thousands of ...
No Need To Send a Hallmark Card
Swampland —
Sen. John McCain celebrated an anniversary today, without pomp or confetti. As Fox News's Mosheh Oinounou points out, it has now been four weeks since McCain held a press conference. Back then, on August 13, McCain was down about 4 points to Barack Obama in the ...
It's Not Just Palin Who Is Hiding From the Press
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones —
From Fox News, of all places:
For a candidate who once railed against "stale soundbites, staged rallies and over-managed messages," John McCain seems to have turned over a new leaf.
Today marks the four-week anniversary since McCain held his last press conference (8/13 in Birmingham, MI) and three weeks since his last public town hall meeting (8/20 in Las Cruces, NM).
McCain's new campaign strategy: staged rallies with thousands of supporters.
Obama held a press conference ...
FOX News criticizes McCain for hiding from the press
AMERICAblog News —
This is about as close to "criticism" of McCain as you get from the GOP propaganda organ known as Tass News, I mean, FOX News. In the article, FOX marks the "anniversary" of McCain's last press conference - that's downright nasty for them. ...
War and Piece — The Emperor's Clothes. Fox : McCain embraces the staged rally . More : Republican presidential candidate John McCain cut short his first public appearance without running-mate Sarah Palin after chanting supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama interrupted his speech. After lunching with a roundtable of women at Philadelphias Down Home Diner, McCain shook hands with supporters and strode up to a podium to deliver a statement. But as he spoke, chants of Obama, Obama, Obama filled the room. Reporters craned forward trying to hear the Arizona senator. ...
Don't meet the press
Ben Smith's Blog —
McCain has gone four weeks without a press conference, and three weeks without taking questions from citizens at a town hall meeting.
Avoid the Press
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Sen. John McCain has now gone four weeks without holding a formal press conference and three weeks since his last town hall meeting, according to Fox News. ...
Maybe he's feeling shy
Political Animal —
... messages." He described his favorite setting -- town-hall meetings -- as the "essence of democracy." McCain has credited his openness and interaction as the reason he won the Republican nomination, telling one Michigan audience in July, "I'm very proud of my record of trying to be in a situation where people can tell me their hopes and their dreams and their aspirations and their concerns just as I heard today. If I win, it'll be because of events like this." That was then; this is now . ( ...
John McCain Has Turned Down John McCain's Town Hall Meetings
Hoffmania! —
... Sen. John McCain has now gone four weeks without holding a formal press
conference and three weeks since his last town hall meeting, according
to Fox News. ...
It's Not Just Palin
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
