http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Calendar/Detail.aspx?guid=a2274619-bbcf-469e-aeb1-1975d91dca86
Two conservative commentators on MSNBC, after they're off the air, say what they really think about the veep choice & guess who's coming to Sterling Heights...
created by charlatan on Sep 03, 2008 at 09:11:38 pm Comments: 11
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rofl yeah MSNBC is a bastion of Conservatism. Right, like we can trust that channel to be unbiased. If Fox is as bad as liberals claim then MSNBC is worse.
posted by Linecrosser on Sep 04, 2008 at 09:54:59 am #
yeah MSNBC is a bastion of Conservatism.
No, but Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan are. Look them up
Disciples of His Holiness Barack NOBama:
Keith Olberman (The Rock)
Dan Rather
Morley Safer
Mike Wallace
Katie Couric
Brian Williams
Charlie Wilson
Wolf Blitzer
Anderson Cooper
Chris Matthews
Kiran ChetryLet's all take a trip down memory lane on how the big network newsfolk have been so impartial. Shall we?
And three wise men from the East(coast) followed this star.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602562.html
3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page C02The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.
John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.
Obama has "proven adept at generating excitement," says David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio. He said the anchors hope "a little bit of that excitement will rub off on their newscasts if they can convey an American phenomenon abroad, if that's what it turns out to be. Senator McCain is not as magnetic a figure in that way."
Jim Geraghty, a columnist for National Review Online, said Obama's paucity of foreign travel as a presidential candidate makes the trip a natural draw for news organizations, while "McCain has been around forever, and he's probably been to all these places before." But, he says, "the networks will be acting as a PR wing for the Obama campaign if they treat any of these photo ops as truly newsworthy breakthroughs."
The plan is for Williams, Gibson and Couric interviews to be parceled out on successive nights in different countries, giving each anchor a one-day exclusive. (Correspondents could have done the interviews instead, but a certain competitiveness sets in once one or two anchors agree to go.) The Washington Post is withholding the scheduled locations for security reasons.
Some 200 journalists have asked to accompany Obama on the costly trip, which will include stops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the campaign will be able to accommodate only one-fifth that number. No itinerary has been announced.
The senator from Illinois has been drawing far more media attention than his Republican rival from Arizona. With this week's Newsweek cover story on Obama's religious beliefs, he has been featured on Time and Newsweek covers 12 times in the past three years, compared with five for McCain. This week's New Yorker includes a 14,600-word piece on Obama's political rise in Chicago. Obama and his wife, Michelle, were recently on the cover of Us Weekly and were interviewed -- with their young daughters, which Obama later said he regretted -- by "Access Hollywood."
(insert laughter and snickering here)When McCain visited Britain, France and Israel in March and met with their leaders, no network anchors tagged along. NBC and ABC sent correspondents; CBS did not. None of the evening newscasts covered his trip to Canada last month. And McCain's swing through Colombia and Mexico two weeks ago was barely covered, although NBC and ABC sent correspondents.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 04, 2008 at 11:12:20 am #
Sillywabbit---That's because McCain chose NOT to take the media.
"But there's a big difference between McCain's trip and the one Obama will embark on next week to Europe and the Middle East. In what could be interpreted now as a possible strategic misstep, the McCain campaign chose not to take reporters along for the ride, forcing media outlets who wanted to cover the newly elected GOP nominee to travel on their own without any guarantee of getting anywhere near the senator."
Exactly Pink, he won't even do Larry King for crying out loud. But don't try to explain that to the delusional.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
You two have man-crushes on each other.
Larry King. Mmmmmm, so meaty.
I just threw up in my mouth a little again.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 04, 2008 at 03:15:57 pm #
Right wingers don't do anything to help their cause with the mainstream media outlets. Every day there is someone complaining that the network guys are all biased, they have a crush on Obama, they are hacks or some derivative of those arguments. How many times have you been personally attacked and decided to buddy up to the person who is on your ass? Are they biased toward Obama? Probably. But, McCain doesn't have much of a chance when he and the folks who support him do nothing but slam the networks and other outlets every time they can.
Do they need to suck up? No. But don't expect a lot of favors if you talk a lot of trash.
Incidentally, Larry King IS a hack, but he's a popular hack. Go figure.
posted by MoreThanRhetoric on Sep 04, 2008 at 06:53:00 pm #
And if you can't handle Larry, well what can you handle?
You would think that John would want to appear on LKL to at least catch up on old times with Larry. You know, the Civil War, the signing of the Declaration, Slavery, shit like that.
McCain didn't want reporters to come along because they would have uncovered his secret hyperbaric chamber that revives him from death each night.
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman. (cut away)
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.
posted by charlatan on Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:43 pm #