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Burton vs. Kelly
Michael Calderone's Blog —
With the McCain campaign, conservative bloggers and talk radio hosts aggressively pushing a line that Obama's policies are "socialist," Obama spokesperson Bill Burton fired back in a response to the 7-year-old radio interview that's been given banner treatment all day by Matt Drudge.
In a statement, Burton took a shot at Fox News, a campaign tactic that's become more common in the final weeks of the campaign, but wasn't throughout most of the cycle.
"This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out ...
Monday Night Fights: FNC's Megyn Kelly vs. Obama's Bill Burton
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
In response to the Sunday evening revelations concerning the socialist, wealth redistribution views expressed by Barack Obama in 2001, the Obama campaign issued a statement blaming "the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain." This didn't sit very well with Fox News's Megyn Kelly who on Monday invited Obama's national press secretary Bill Burton on "America's Election Headquarters" to defend these allegations (h/t Johnny Dollar). What followed was quite a barnburner (video embedded below the fold): You go, ...
Bill Burton duels with Megyn Kelly about Fox News
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
This robust debate might just inspire a few of the more forward-leaning members of the McCain press shop
Fox and ... friends
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama press secretary Bill Burton goes a few rounds with Megyn Kelly, as the campaign and the conservative media start to lock into a relationship that could last four or eight years. (Or eight more days.)
As everyone from MSNBC to The Nation has learned in the last several years, there's good business in being the voice of the opposition; and the Obama camp seems to be settling into a basically combative, but engaged, stance toward them.
(via JMart)
Laying the Smackdown
Southern Appeal —
October 27, 2008 Laying the Smackdown Filed under: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , Media Matters , Politics By Patrick Carver ( Email ) @ 8:02 pm An apt description of Megyn Kelly does to Obama spokesman Bill Burton: YouTube Preview Image (h/t Newsbusters.org ) PermaLink | | Trackback/Pingback (0) Nobody Has Trackbacked Yet The trackback URL for this post: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/5038/trackback Leave a Reply Name Mail (will not be published) Website XHTML: You can use these tags: ...
