McCain Protests NBC Coverage
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis called for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what they feel are signs the network is “abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race.” ...

Back to Aggressive Whining
Talking Points Memo — The McCain campaign wants an apology from NBC for failure to fluff. As a side note, we keep hearing that McCain is 'reluctant' to talk about his POW experience. But he sends out his press spokespeople to use it to deflect questions about his honesty. Said Nicolle Wallace: ""The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous." ...

Rick Davis works the refs.
Blah3 Feed — They just can't handle it if the media treats McCain with anything less than fawning devotion. McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race." Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to counter news coverage he considers critical. Politico has asked NBC for a response and will post that ...

Sore loser: Obama and Obamedia accuse McCain of “cheating”
Michelle Malkin — ... “). The McCain camp has protested . And now we have the spectacle of the Democrat presidential nominee and his press entourage bleating about the “cone of silence” because he didn’t fare as well as his opponent. Yes, the Obama has just confirmed that it is operating in a cone of abject stupidity. Maybe a little less ...

McCain Campaign Protests to NBC Over Mitchell's Cheating Claim
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Politico reported moments ago that campaign manager Rick Davis has sent a strongly-worded letter to Steve Capus, president of NBC News, sharply criticizing Mitchell's suggestion that the Arizona senator had somehow cheated at Saturday's Saddleback Civil Forum. ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Day By Day by Chris Muir August 17, 2008 McCain protests NBC coverage - Mike Allen - Politico.com McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race." Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to counter news coverage he considers critical. NBC News is one of the most biased outfits out ...

Did McCain Just Pop Off?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Go read the letter that the McCain campaign has fired off to NBC News. The whole thing is below the jump. They are outraged - outraged - that Andrea Mitchell said the following on air: ...

Did McCain's Campaign Just Confirm Andrea Mitchell's Reporting?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — The Politico has the text of a vitriolic letter in which the McCain campaign takes Andrea Mitchell and NBC to task for "giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims in order to undercut John McCain". ...

NYT Backs Up NBC: McCain Was Not In "Cone Of Silence" Before Saddleback
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis sent a strongly-worded letter to NBC News president Steve Capus, complaining about "unsubstantiated, partisan claims" on the network made "in order to undercut John McCain." ...

The Waaaahpublican Party
Hoffmania! — ... Leave John McCain ALONE! McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race." Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to counter news coverage he considers critical. In this case, the campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain ...

McCain protests NBC coverage; Objects to Andrea Mitchell's question on Faith Forum "heads-up"
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... when McCain came onstage, and the senator joked: "I was trying to hear through the wall." Mitchell reported that some "Obama people" were suggesting "that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared." A McCain aide said that is not the case: "Senator McCain was in a motorcade led by the United States Secret Service and held in a green room with no broadcast feed."... Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12594.html

Saddleback Burns: McCain Wasn't in "Code of Silence"; McCain Camp Complains to Media for Passing On Allegation He Heard Questions Ahead of Time
Political Punch — ... insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," she said. NBC's Andrea Mitchell said on "Meet the Press" Sunday that, "the Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared." This prompted McCain campaign manager Rick Davis to write a letter to the president of NBC News ...

McCain Accuses NBC of Pro-Obama Bias
PoliGazette — ... McCain campaign manager Rick Davis requested a meeting with Steve Capus, president of NBC News, Sunday. The reason for the request was, in the words of Davis, NBC’s decision to abandon “non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race.” ...

Shocking News! McCain Camp Accuses NBC of Being in the Tank for Obama!
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Steve Capus asking for a meeting to discuss the evidence that NBC is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race." After watching NBC/MSNBC journalists and debate moderators all but damn Hillary and orgasm over Barack during the Democratic primary, one has to wonder: where is the evidence that NBC has ever made a pretense of being non partisan? Is there really anyone left who doesn't know that NBC is merely the mirror image of Fox News? The letter (excerpt): We are extremely disappointed to see that the level of ...

McCain Campaign Fuming At Obama/Mitchell Spin
California Conservative — ... According to this Mike Allen article, the McCain campaign wants a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News ASAP. Here’s the text of their letter to Capus: ...

McCain Camp Requests Meeting With NBC News About Coverage
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Campaign Manager Rick Davis writes a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus Sunday asking for a meeting about what they see as “abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race.” ...

McCain Camp Sends Letter to NBC Attacking Network's Liberal Bias & Unsubstantiated Attacks
Gateway Pundit — Aftrer the ridiculous attacks on John McCain by NBC hack Andrea Mitchell yesterday- saying that McCain did so well in the Faith Forum because he was able to hear the questions- the McCain Camp responded with a letter to NBC. The Politico reported: The campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were asked of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was the first candidate to ...

NBC’s Mitchell Reveals How McCain Breached Cone
ScrappleFace — ... (2008-08-18) — NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell today explained how Sen. John McCain may have violated the ‘cone of silence’ at Saturday night’s forum with Pastor Rick Warren, allowing him to get a ...

NYT, Andrea Mitchell, Obama supporters/surrogates imply McCain “cheated” at Saddleback forum
Sister Toldjah — ... The McCain campaign has written a letter to NBC protesting the accusation, and laying out in the letter a few facts that you won’t read much about in the MSM (emphasis added): ...

ThinkFast: August 18, 2008
Think Progress — ... .” Yesterday, Davis asked for a meeting with NBC president Steve Capus, “part of an aggressive effort by McCain to counter news coverage he considers critical ,” Politico notes. On the trail today: Obama will be in Albuquerque, NM where he will ...

The Navy Doesn’t Make Whiny Babies
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Jesse Taylor Meaning, of course, that John McCain must have picked it up somewhere else.  Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is “abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race.” Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by McCain to counter news coverage he considers critical. In this case, the ...

McCain Violated the Rules: That's Cheating
The Anonymous Liberal — ... In fact, the McCain camp is so incensed by this allegation that it cranked out an angry missive to NBC News complaining about the fact that Andrea Mitchell even mentioned the issue at all (which is ironic given that Mitchell attributed the allegation to Obama staffers and made it sound like it was just sour grapes). ...

Post-Saddleback Desperation: Obama Camp Accuses John McCain of Violating the Cone of Silence
(Obsolete Feed) — ... uncritically repeat the transparent accusation: Andrea Mitchell’s floating of the Obama-camp accusation that John McCain cheated by overhearing Obama’s responses at the Saddleback forum, as NewsBuster D.S. Hube reported, isn’t the first time the NBC correspondent has made herself propagator-in-chief of Obama’s conspiracy theories. The McCain did not tkae Mitchell’s report lightly. They quickly responded in a letter to the President of NBC News: We are extremely disappointed to see ...

Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online — Monday, August 18, 2008 [image] Around the Web: 2008 [Katherine Connell] The latest on the candidates . . . McCain Despite Assurances, Wasn't in a 'Cone of Silence' The New York Times [image] Protests NBC Coverage Politico [image] Aide's Dual Roles Intersect Los Angeles Times [image] OK with Aide's Lobbying Past USA Today [image] Says Georgia Conflict Threatens Energy Supplies The Boston Globe [image] Questions Renew on Romney Prospects The Boston Globe [image] [image] Obama Enticing Text Messagers in a Get-Out-the-Vote Push The New York ...

McCain: I Don't Cheat!
The Stump — ... The McCain camp is outraged at the suggestion that they may have cheated by not sequestering the candidate in Rick Warren's "cone of silence" during Obama's Saddleback appearance on Saturday night. ...

Did McCain cheat at Saddleback? Unlikely
The Swamp — ... In any event, there's been an interesting development in this whole question of whether McCain took unfair advantage of Obama or not. Politico's Mike Alllen is reporting that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has written to NBC News's president to allege that correspondent Andrea Mitchell is carrying the Obama campaign's water since she repeated on "Meet the Press" the complaint that McCain was not in a "cone of silence" before the event and may have heard some of the questions. ...

Team Obama whispers: McCain cheated at Saddleback
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . So another home run ends up with an asterisk next to it. Exit quotation from Team McCain’s bruising letter to NBC about how deep in the tank they are for Obama: “John McCain actually requested that he and Barack Obama do the forum together on stage at the same time, making these kinds of after-the-fact complaints moot.”

I Love The Smell Of Wingnut Whining In The Morning
Firedoglake — The wingnutosphere is in top form today, which means that the whinging and moaning and bleating has reached a full-throated roar. Oh, how awful it is (whine whimper) that NBC and Andrea Mitchell aren't being "fair and balanced." (See especially the fatuous garbage being peddled at Newsbusters, as well as Red State.) And we all know what that means. Hey, that's not in the playbook! And gee, aren't those liberals just so meaaaaan for implying that Honorable John McCain, the Man With More Honor Than Anyone Evah!!!, might have ...

McCain Campaign Whining Again
Daily Kos — There's no other way to describe the latest complaint from the McCain campaign except to say, what a bunch of WATB: McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race."  [...] In this case, the campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were ...

Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Monday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — What are the most popular stories around the web today? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. Politico: McCain Protests NBC Coverage CNN: ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for August 18, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... !"McCain protests NBC coverage ... the campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on 'Meet the Press' questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were asked of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who was the first candidate to be interviewed Saturday night by Pastor Rick Warren at a presidential forum on faith." Another instance of "methinks thou doth protest too much" John McCain!!! It boils down to "WHEN the shoe fits wear it," it won't be the first time you cheated McCain!!! And by the by McCain, haven't you ever heard, ...

Eric Schmeltzer: Senator John Complain
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Wow. So, Senator McCain goes on national television and lies to a pastor, pretending that he was in a "cone of silence" holding room during the Saddleback Forum where he couldn't hear the questions that he would be asked that were also being posed to Senator Obama, gets called on it, and then lodges an official complaint with NBC News because Andrea Mitchell was one of the many reporters to report on it? To quote Grandpa Simpson, the Senator's alter ego, "Oh, Bitch Bitch Bitch..." First off, let me tackle this insane notion that ...

Rick Warren responds to the flap over John McCain and Saddleback questions
Top of the Ticket — ... As Mike Allen of Politico.com reported Sunday night, Davis fired off a letter to Rick Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, objecting to Mitchell broaching the issue and portraying it as an indication that the network was "abandoning nonpartisan coverage of the presidential race." Davis asked for a meeting with Capus "to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC." ...

Matt Lewis: In Defense of Andrea Mitchell
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — As you probably heard, John McCain 's campaign manager sent a tersely-worded missive to NBC News president Steve Capus , complaining about "unsubstantiated, partisan claims" made by NBC's Andrea Mitchell regarding the "cone of silence." Following is Mitchell's ...

McCain To Appear On Sunday's "Meet The Press"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I say "finally" because McCain has not appeared on the Sunday program since the campaign declared unofficial war on NBC, declining invitations for himself and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin from interim MTP host Tom Brokaw, and granting "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Wiliams the last of the Big Three network interviews with Palin, by a substantial margin. ...

McCain To Appear On Sunday's "Meet The Press"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... I say "finally" because McCain has not appeared on the Sunday program since the campaign declared unofficial war on NBC, declining invitations for himself and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin from interim MTP host Tom Brokaw, and granting "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Wiliams the last of the Big Three network interviews with Palin, by a substantial margin. ...

From Case File: No, Wait For It
Sadly, No! — ... I say “finally” because McCain has not appeared on the Sunday program since the campaign declared unofficial war on NBC, declining invitations for himself and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin from interim MTP host Tom Brokaw, and granting “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Wiliams the last of the Big Three network interviews with Palin, by a substantial margin. ...