[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Evening 06/20/08

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*Main Topics:* *McCanada *and Free Trade, McCain's Flip Flop on Domestic Oil Drilling, Immigration * **Summary of Shift:* Scott McClellan testified on Capital Hill today. He denied Bush knew about the White House effort to out Valerie Plame but could not say the same about Dick Cheney. John McCain was in Canada today pushing free trade. Barack Obama hit McCain for his 180 on offshore drilling. Obama released a new logo and is expected to have a joint event with Hillary Clinton next week. Michael Bloomberg defended Obama in front of a Jewish audience in Florida. Moveon.org is dropping its 527 operation at Obama's request. Obama aides said he raised $22 million in May. A Newsweek poll shows Obama up by 15 points nationally. Highlights: 1) McCain touts free trade in Canada a. CNN's Dana Bash covers McCain's "unusual" trip to Canada, Dobbs criticizes McCain's "pandering to business special interest groups" b. Pat Buchanan: McCain's stance on NAFTA may cost him the election c. Dobbs calls McCain "Mr. Free Trade", blasts Carly Fiorina on outsourcing 2) *McFlip-Flop *on domestic oil drilling a. Fox News' Carl Cameron says McCain has been "inconsistent" on offshore drilling b. Senator Hutchison defends McCain's offshore drilling plan, confirms McCain has inklings to flip flop on ANWR drilling too 3) McCain and immigration a. Obama camp accuses McCain of flip-flopping on immigration b. Dobbs criticizes McCain's "late night meeting" with Latino leaders on immigration reform 4) Jill Zuckman: Chuck Hagel's statement that he would "think about" accepting a VP invitation from Obama is an example of disunity among Republicans 5) "CBS Evening News": There is no such thing as clean coal Clips: Highlight #1 *CNN's Dana Bash Covers McCain's "Unusual" Trip to Canada, Dobbs Blasts McCain's "Pandering to Business Special Interest Groups"* (CNN 06/20/08 7:00pm) LOU DOBBS: Senator McCain, pandering to business special interest groups, with his unqualified support for NAFTA. But the Senator didn't deliver his pro-Free Trade pitch in this country, where millions of jobs have been lost as a result of those agreements, instead he went to Canada to talk to their business elites [...] BASH: John McCain's visit here to Canada was quite unusual. It was a campaign trip where the candidate insisted it wasn't about politics. [...] [Dana Bash asking McCain a question] BASH: Correct me if I am wrong, this is a trip that was put together and executed by your presidential campaign not your Senate office, so how is it not political? MCCAIN: Because we didn't feel it was appropriate for the taxpayers, while I am the nominee of my party, to pay for a trip that would have accrued to the cost of the taxpayers. [...] BASH: Now, McCain often points to his extensive experience traveling around the world as a Senator, it's one of the reasons he thinks voters should elect him. He said today he is going to continue traveling abroad during the presidential campaign, but if his trip Canada was any example it's a pretty tough task for a candidate to travel anywhere during the heat of the campaingn and insist it's not about politics. *Pat Buchanan: McCain's Stance on NAFTA May Cost Him the Election *(MSNBC 06/20/08 06:15pm) RACHEL MADDOW: McCain was in Canada today talking up our relations with our northerly neighbor. […] After his appearance McCain released this pretty harsh statement: [Visual of Quote] "For Months, Barack Obama said that he would 'make sure that we renegotiate' NAFTA, demanding unilateral changes and threatened to unilaterally withdraw if he did not get his way. Barack Obama knew better. America has not had a protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, but Barack Obama held his position anyway to further his cynical political purposes in the primary campaign. Now he claims: 'I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally.' Barack Obama should know words matter – especially in a campaign based on rhetoric rather than a record of accomplishment." MADDOW: […] Who's vote is McCain going after with the pro-NAFTA argument? JOAN WALSH: […] I'm not sure this helps McCain either. I think that McCain is the one who's really looking like the flip flopper especially with this crazy flip flop on offshore oil drilling. […] PAT BUCHANAN: I don't know what McCain is doing! For Heaven's sake. It's a 50 to 40 issue negative nationally. You take Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania they think NAFTA is a four-letter word. And he's going up to Canada praising the trade deal when we've lost 3 and a half manufacturing jobs under Bush alone. If I were Obama I would hammer him on this. Frankly he's putting at risk his election with this nonsense. […] *Dobbs Calls McCain "Mr. Free Trade", Blasts Carly Fiorina on Outsourcing*(CNN 06/20/08 7:10pm) LOU DOBBS: Well Senator McCain is certainly working to earn the title "Mr. Free Trade." In addition to his enthusiastic support for NAFTA the Senator is also voted for all sorts of trade deals. Voting for trade deals with Oman, Singapore, Chile, Vietnam, Central American nations, and African nations. And just in case there's any doubt, back in December Senator McCain said he would seek deals with more countries, saying, "I'm the biggest free-marketer and free-trader you will ever see." Senator McCain's position on free trade and it's impact on working people in this country and our middle class shouldn't be much of a surprise when we consider just who's giving the Senator economic advice. None other than Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP. She presided over the thousands of layoffs at HP and was ultimately fired herself. But not before she recieved a $21 million dollar severance package and more than a half million dollars in mortgage assistance. And it was Carly Fiorina who defended outsourcing of American middle class jobs to cheap overseas labor markets by saying, "There is no job that is America's god-given right anymore." Highlight #2 *Fox News' Carl Cameron Says McCain Has Been "Inconsistent" on Offshore Drilling* (FNC 06/20/08 6:00pm) JIM ANGLE: They say what goes around comes around. And today the two presidential candidates proved how fast that can happen. Slamming each other for basically the same thing, changing positions on economic issues [...] CARL CAMERON: Dueling economic events. Barack Obama with Democratic Governors in Chicago ramped up his opposition to John McCain's proposed expansion of offshore oil drilling while John McCain in Canada met with business leaders, intensified his attacks on Obama as an isolationist, threatening to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. JOHN MCCAIN: Demanding unilateral changes and threatening to abrogate an agreement that has increased trade and prosperity is nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls. [...] CAMERON: Both candidates portray themselves as honest genuine politicians. But the truth is McCain has been inconsistent on offshore drilling and Obama's been inconsistent on trade. Perhaps a better way to put it is that they are both true politicians therefore apt to shift their positions. *Senator Hutchison Defends McCain's Offshore Drilling Plan, Confirms McCain Has Inklings to Flip Flop on ANWR Drilling Too* (FNC 06/20/08 5:00pm) MEGYN KELLY: Senator Hutchison Barack Obama recently, or just said today, that John McCain's plan for offshore drilling, something that many Americans seem to favor according to the polls, "makes no sense at all." Because he says "it wouldn't give us any appreciable savings until 2030." So what do you say about that? KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON: Well, what makes no sense at all is that we twiddle our thumbs while people are paying higher and higher gasoline prices, higher prices for food in the food stores, that's what doesn't make sense. In fact, I think it would have an immediate impact in this respect, we know that the futures, speculators, are driving prices up because it's very clear that Congress is doing nothing to produce more energy and therefore bigger supply for the greater demand. And so prices are going to keep going up. So the speculators are making prices go up when the fundamentals aren't there. KELLY: Ok, there's a little bit of disagreement on that speculation issue because some people say no, speculators are in fact keeping the cost down. But I want to really get your reaction to the how much savings people would feel in the short term if we were to do offshore drilling. If we were to begin it right away. HUTCHISON: What I'm trying to say is that I think the speculators would see that prices are going to start going down over the next five or six years because it will take a little while to be drilling but if we have the speculators out of the market, it will bring prices down very quickly. And that is the good news about John McCain's proposal. That we're going to have production, the states will be able to get royalties from it, it is an incentive for the states to do it. He is also proposing more nuclear power, which would bring down the cost of electricity. All of these proposals that he's making are going to produce more energy. The problem with the Democrats is they don't have any new energy in their plans. KELLY: Ok, let me ask you about ANWR. It's something that John McCain has long opposed for an awful long time but now he seems to be opening the door, indicating he just might change his position on that. Some of his critics say he may just be pandering to the voters. What do you say to that? HUTCHISON: Well, I think, when you start looking at where ANWR is and where the part that you would drill is, it's a very small section, it's a grassy tundra, 70 degrees below zero, and the people who have been advertisin g against it just haven't been there. John McCain has been there. He has said that he wouldn't do it. But I think he's beginning to see that if we have an overall goal in our country of energy independence for America, which means national security and economic security for our country in the next 10 or 15 years, that we're gonna have to do some things environmentally safe, protecting our environment, but nevertheless producing more while we are getting the other kinds of renewables and types of energy that we know will be in the future. But are not in abundance now. Highlight #3 *Obama Camp Accuses McCain of Flip-Flopping on Immigration* (CNN 06/18/08 4:35pm) WOLF BLITZER: Barack Obama […] electing to declined the federal funds for the general election has prompted charges of flip-flopping. […] Obama's camp says John McCain has contradictions of his own. […] The McCain campaign basically says there are two Barack Obamas on these various issues, bill. BILL SCHNEIDER: Well […]the Obama campaign says back at you. They say there are two McCains on the issue of illegal immigration. On Wednesday night, John McCain held a private meeting with more than 150 Chicago-area Hispanic leaders. According to the Associated Press, several people who were at the meeting said McCain assured them he would push for comprehensive immigration reform if he's elected president. In 2007, McCain's sponsorship of comprehensive immigration reform angered conservatives and very nearly derailed his presidential campaign. At a republican debate in January, McCain was asked whether he would still vote for his original measure. [clip of McCain] JOHN MCCAIN: no, i would not. Because we know what the situation is today. People want the borders secured first. SCHNEIDER: McCain's critics were reassured. [video clip of Mike Antonovich] SCHNIEDER: after the chicago meeting, the Obama campaign's communications director charged McCain with trying to have it both ways. [audio clip and text from Robert Gibbs] SCHNEIDER: right now, McCain is getting just over a third of the Hispanic vote nationwide. Last time Bush got about 40%. McCain's got to keep conservatives happy while making sure his Hispanic support doesn't collapse. How is he going to do it? His campaign says he will be addressing several major Hispanic groups in the next month. SCHNEIDER: We asked the McCain campaign for a […] They [Tucker Bounds] said, "Despite the wildly misinformed opinions of Barack Obama's spokesman, John McCain fundamentally believes that we need to secure our border, and then move forward to address the need for immigration reform in a respectful and compassionate manner that recognizes we are all God's children. That's his position yesterday, today, and every other day, before all the groups he meets with." *Dobbs Criticizes McCain's "Late Night Meeting" with Latino Leaders on Immigration Reform* (CNN 06/20/08 7:20pm) LOU DOBBS: Senator McCain is trying to have it both ways on the issue of illegal immigration as well. He's doing it by pandering of course to ethnocentric interest groups. He assured in Chicago Hispanic leaders at a late night meeting that he would help push through legislation giving immigration reform a top priority, giving Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens [...] Highlight #4 *Chuck Hagel's Statement that He Would "Think About" Accepting a VP Invitation from Obama is an Example of Disunity Among Republicans *(MSNBC 06/20/08 05:57pm) DAVID SCHUSTER: An associated press interview this afternoon with Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. […] He was asked about if he was offered to be Barack Obama's running mate, and he said if it would occur I'd have to think about it. You'd have to consider it. It's the only thing you could do. Why wouldn't you? JILL ZUCKMAN: That is so devastating. It's just so devastating. He was one of Senator McCain's closest friends in the Senate. They are both Vietnam veterans, they're both highly decorated. The war has just split them apart. And you can see how estranged they are by the fact that he would say something like this. And on top of that Senator Hagel's wife has made a contribution to Senator Obama's presidential campaign. It looks like the whole Hagel family might be moving in the Obama direction. I think its kind of a sad thing to see that friendship broken apart. […] MICHELLE BERNARD: The more important story about Chuck Hagel is really what we see happening in the Republican Party. We've been talking about this for several months. There is disunity in the Republican Party. We've heard so many people say that the party as a whole will come and everyone will rally around John McCain, but we still don't see that happening. And John McCain has a lot of work to do, not only within his base but also outside his base. And I think Chuck Hagel's statement today really exemplifies just how much work he has to do within the Republican Party. If he wants to win all the states that George Bush won in 2004, Chuck Hagel's statement today made it even more difficult for him. He's got a lot of work ahead of him to do. […] Highlight #5 *"CBS Evening News": There is No Such Thing as Clean Coal *(CBS 06/20/08 06:50pm) WYATT ANDREWS: Coal is by far the dirtiest way America makes electric energy but you wouldn't know that from this ad campaign funded by industry. A campaign promising a future of clean coal. And its not just industry, the Presidential candidates are also pushing clean coal. […] MCCAIN: "We can have clean coal technology." […] JAMES HANSON: there is no such thing as clean coal today. ANDREWS: James Hanson, NASA's expert on global warming says all coal plants, even Tampa Electric, still emit millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the most threatening greenhouse gas. HANSON: There's no coal plant that captures the carbon dioxide and that's the main long-term pollutant. ANDREWS: […] America's efforts to sequester carbon have stalled. The department of energy planned to fund a plant […] but pulled its funding when the price became to high. […] Florida's governor Charlie Crist even helped pull the plug on two clean coal plants because he says without a carbon solution quit clean coal. CHARLIE CRIST: Until that time comes we want to develop more solar more nuclear more wind. ANDREWS: […] Until the federal government funds the research on carbon dioxide, America's dependence on coal is in long-term trouble. […] -- Gregory E. Rosalsky Progressive Media USA 202-609-7691 (office) 707-484-3796 (cell) [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. To post to this group, send to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] E-mail [email protected] with questions or concerns This is a list of individuals. 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