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*Main Topics: *Wall Street, AIG Bailout, McCain on Good Morning America
Summary of Shift:
* *Campaign coverage continues to focus on the Wall Street crisis
and the two candidates economic plans. Opposition to this morning's bailout
of AIG caused McCain's recent flip-flop on government regulations to receive
much attention. Carly Fiorina's gaffe on McCain and Palin not being able to
run a major corporation was also a hot topic as well as Holtz-Eakin's
statement that McCain created the Blackberry.
In other news, all eyes are on Wall Street as American's fear
for their investments, pensions and jobs. The US Embassy in Yemen was
attacked by a car bomb; many Yemen workers were killed or injured, no
reported injuries to Americans. Hurricane Ike's death toll rises as the
debris is cleared and the damage is assessed. The hurricane also caused an
estimated $16 billion dollars in damage to property and infrastructure.
Highlights:
1. ABC: John McCain interviewed on Good Morning America, talks economy,
jobs, and first actions as President
2. ABC: John and Cindy McCain interviewed on Good Morning America, talk
Roe v. Wade, townhall debates
3. Romney makes the rounds in support of McCain's economic policies
A) CNN: Romney Praises McCain's Economic Experience, Then is Shown a Clip
of Him During Primaries Saying Otherwise, Throws Fiorina Under the Bus
B) FNC: Mitt Romney touts McCain's economic experience and plan to Get
U.S. out of current crisis
4. NBC: Pawlenty tries to dismiss McCain's flip flop on deregulation
5. FNC: The Break-up: Media's love affair with John McCain is over, but
why?
6. NBC: McCain attacks Obama for fundraising during an economic crisis,
while his surrogates suggest McCain invented the Blackberry and could not
run a major corporation
7. MSNBC: Joe Scarborough: if John McCain invented the Blackberry then
so
did I
8. CMDY: John McCain wins the "Generic Off" contest for his attempt to
change the meaning of fundamental
Local Highlights:
1. WFLA-NBC-FL: Local Tampa news covers McCain speech on economy,
interviews him on Same as Bush, Sarah Palin, reform
2. WFLA-NBC-FL: Local Tampa news covers McCain speech on economy,
interviews him on offshore drilling
3. WFTS-ABC-FL: Local Tampa news covers McCain protesters and clashes
outside of event
Highlights – No Clips:
1. CNN - ALINA CHO: Yesterday, Senator John McCain said he opposed
government financial oversight, now the truth is, until recently the GOP
presidential candidate consistently called himself an opponent of most
government regulation. In fact, in a Wall Street Journal article about six
months ago, McCain said he's always for less regulation. But, that he also
understands the opposing view. McCain went on to say, "I am fundamentally a
deregulator." Fast forward to now, with the recent problems on Wall Street,
McCain is talking more frequently of increasing government regulation on the
financial sector. […] McCain went on to say that there needs to be more
transparency, more accountability on Wall Street, but so far no specifics on
a plan. So is Senator Biden right when he says that Senator McCain has
refused to regulate? The verdict, Biden statement is historically accurate.
But with all the recent turmoil in the financial markets, McCain's position
appears to be changing.
Clips:
Highlight #1
*John McCain Interviewed on Good Morning America, Talks Economy, Jobs, and
First Actions as President* (ABC 09/17/08 7:31am)
ROBIN ROBERTS: You love coming to this part of the country, hard working
people. They wake up and they hear the news that the Federal Government is
going to bail out insurance giant, AIG, to the tune of $85 billion dollars.
Do you agree with that?
JOHN MCCAIN: Well, I agree with you, these are hard working Americans. Last
night I had dinner with a man who's a teacher, or his wife is a teacher,
he's a locksmith. Another family, mother is a nurse, they're the
fundamentals of America, they're still strong. But they've been betrayed by
the top of our economy. By the greedy Wall Street excesses, sometimes I
think may be even corruption. And they have had their lives harmed because
of greed and excess. We've got to fix it, we've got to say that it will
never happen again, as President I will make sure that it never happens
again. *Now on the bailout itself, I didn't want to do that, and I don't
think anybody I know wanted to do that.* But there were literally millions
of people who's retirement, whose investments, whose insurance were at risk
here, they were going to have their lives destroyed because of the greed,
and excess, and corruption. When I say corruption, many of these executives,
*these Wall Street CEO's, said everything's fine, as you know, up until a
short time ago. Everything's fine, not to worry. Meanwhile, Congress, the
regulators, paid no attention whatsoever to it.* *We have an alphabet soup
of regulatory agencies, all of them were asleep at the switch. And the
Congress, particularly as far as Fannie and Freddie are concerned, went
right along with it. And the special interests and the lobbyists took over.*
ROBERTS: You talk about Congress, and of course, you've been there in
Washington all these many years, and you're saying, a little bit asleep at
the switch.
*MCCAIN: Two years ago I gave a speech and argued on several occasions, if
Fannie and Freddie were in trouble, they were carrying out unsafe, and
unsound, and even corrupt practices, and I said that this has got to stop.
And I have fought for reform all the time that I've been in Congress. *I've
taken on my party, I've taken on the other party, I've taken on the
President. Senator Obama's never taken on his party on any major issue. This
requires a reformer, that's my record, of reform. And we have to fix it, and
we will fix it, and it'll never happen again when I'm president of the
United States. And we got to grow the economy and create jobs, that's the
best way out of this.
ROBERTS: And how do you go about it? Because yesterday, when you were
talking about Chris Cuomo, you said that you would perhaps reform a kind of
9/11 commission. In talking to folks here, like you did, they said enough
with the commissions, enough with the talk. What are the real solutions,
what are the practical solutions, not the talk in getting it done?
MCCAIN: We need to get the best minds in America together. I mean, this is
a crisis, this is one of the most severe crisis in modern times. So we got
to get the best minds in America together, to say look, not only did this
happen but we got to all work together, Republican and Democrat. I mean,
this calls for bi-partisanship, this calls for patriotism. This calls for
saving the economy of the people here, the Lipshz Family on this farm,
they're the heartland of America. So clearly, we have to have transparency,
we have to have oversight, we have to combine these regulatory alphabet soup
organizations. We have to make them work. *They need a chief executive who
knows how to crack the whip*. And knows how to reform Washington, and reform
the way that we do business. And frankly, bring these people to account.
Hold these people to account that are responsible for this. And if many of
them broke the law, then maybe some of them should be in jail.
ROBERTS: Well, people here, you saying that, and believe in your commitment
to wanting to do that. But Senator, they're saying, if you're in office,
they want something tangible. When they hear that, they're like, what is the
first thing people will fix? What's the first thing you'll change?
MCCAIN: The first thing I'll fix is I'll make sure that they're taxes are
not raised, I'll make sure that they'll be available for affordable health
insurance. We'll grow jobs, we will get off alternative energy, that frankly
this family, who uses a lot of gasoline, we got to get off that dependence
on foreign oil. *I know how to do that, and I have a concrete plan to fix
our economy.* And I'll make their health insurance affordable and available,
quality education for their kids, and I'll keep taxes low. They don't need a
tax increase in this very difficult time. And I will be opposed to that, and
I will make sure that it doesn't happen. But we can restore our economy
again. But we got to clean up this mess, and drain the swamp that's causing
so many problems, and having so many innocent bystanders being harmed by it.
[…]
MCCAIN: And I just want to also say, look, America can get through this, our
best days are ahead of us, not behind us. *They need a government that works
for them, not for the special interests in Washington. That is my record.*
Highlight #2
*John and Cindy McCain Interviewed on Good Morning America, Talk Roe v.
Wade, Townhall Debates* (ABC 09/17/08 7:42)
ROBIN ROBERTS: You're never far from your husband's side. Does he confide
with you, does he talk to you about the major issues and get your advice on
some things?
CINDY MCCAIN: Well, certainly at the end of the day, the issues are not what
we talk about. We're usually checking in with our children and things like
that. But certainly we talk, absolutely.
JOHN MCCAIN: I think we should have full disclosure there, there's a
critique.
CINDY MCCAIN: There's a critique, that's true. I was trying to be nice!
JOHN MCCAIN: Of my performance, and those kind of things.
DIANE SAWYER: How does she think you're doing?
JOHN: I sometimes get mixed reviews, and sometimes I deserve them.
SAWYER: If I could ask about one issue, because we are here in the
heartland, we keep hearing about a lot of social issues as we travel around
here. And I wanted to clear up something if I could real quick, because Mrs.
McCain, CBS reported on Roe v. Wade, that they had contacted your staff, and
you had said that you do not, as Mrs. Bush in fact has said she does not,
want the repeal of Roe v. Wade, so that some states can outlaw abortion. And
yet, Senator McCain, you have indicated in previous interviews that you
would like the repeal of Roe v. Wade so that the states can make their
decisions. What's the difference in the two of you views on the issue?
JOHN MCCAIN: Well, let me just say, this is all about courage and
compassion. It's about changing the culture of America. I am pro-life and I
support that position, and I know that Cindy does too. And we need to ask
young American women who are faced with this terrible decision that we will
help them have the courage to bring a baby into this world, and we'll have
the compassion and help them in every way that we can address it. And it
will be, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, go back to the states and the states
will make the decisions about it. So, that's the issue here as to how we
treat the issue of human life in America. And it's got to be done with
courage and compassion and that's both of our positions.
SAWYER: But Mrs. McCain, do you oppose the repeal of Roe v. Wade, was that
report correct?
CINDY MCCAIN: You know there are people who are without jobs, that are
hurting, whose businesses have collapsed, who don't know where they're going
to find money to feed their families*. This is not the major issue on
people's minds right now. *What concerns me, is when I talk to people, like
people today on this farm, people we had dinner with last night. They're
having trouble making ends meat. A difference in how we stand on abortion,
and things like that, is not what's foremost in the voters minds right now,
at all.
JOHN MCCAIN: So, look. *This is an issue that we have to change the culture
of America, those of us who respect the rights of the unborn, that's the
thrust of our effort.* And I'm happy to note that we're adoptive parents,
and it's enriched our lives. And we hope that that will also encourage
others to do the same.
ROBERTS: You talked about that people don't want to get into personal
issues, that that doesn't help them, that they want to talk about the
issues. But, it has gotten very personal this particular time around, the
campaign, on both sides. And a lot of people thought it was refreshing on
9/11 that no negative ads, you and Senator Obama appeared at the National
Forum on Community Service, and can we make that kind of commitment, why
does it have to, how does it really serve anybody when it becomes so bitter?
JOHN MCCAIN: It doesn't, but I can tell you one way that it makes it a lot
better, because I've been in previous campaigns, have Senator Obama come to
a townhall meeting with me. Let's go to townhall meetings all over America,
both of us, stand before the American people. That's what Barry Goldwater
and Jack Kennedy had decided to do. And I've asked time after time. Senator
Obama, come to the townhall meetings with me, let the people ask, we
respond. I guarantee you that changes the tone of the campaign because then
people pay attention to the candidates, not the back and forth, not the
surrogates, not the 527s. And so, I ask Senator Obama again. We got 49 days
left. 48. Let's go to the townhall meetings, and then the American people
will be focused on that. I don't know why he's refused to do that, because
when he was first asked he said he would go anywhere anytime. And so I hope
that he will take up that request, and I look forward to it, I'll fly with
him. I promise not to fly the airplane.
Highlight #3
*Romney Praises McCain's Economic Experience, Then is Shown a Clip of Him
During Primaries Saying Otherwise, Throws Fiorina Under the Bus* (CNN
09/17/08 7:32am)
JOHN ROBERTS: With your vast experience in the business world here and in
financial markets in particular what's the first advice you would give
Senator John McCain about handling the current crisis?
MITT ROMNEY: Well, first of all the federal reserve has taken the
appropriate action to make sure that institutions which could, if they
failed hurt a lot of people that they don't fail. Secondly you have to make
sure we don't add new government spending programs and we don't raise taxes.
The worse thing you can do with an economy in trouble is raise taxes. And I
really would call on Barack Obama to say, you know what? It's not the time
to raise taxes, it's instead a time to smooth the market out, to try to
rekindle the growth of our economy, lower taxes, and get ourselves from
sending $700 billion a year to foreign countries for oil, let's keep that
money here, let's drill in America, something Barack Obama opposes. He's
wrong on that one.
ROBERTS: Let me come back to the point you made about the bailout of AIG.
John McCain said the fed should not be bailing out these financial
institutions.
*ROMNEY: Well, what he said they shouldn't be bailing out institutions by,
if you will, giving more money to the shareholders and the management.* But
he does believe that when the federal reserve and treasury have evaluated a
particular enterprise and conclude that their failure will hurt more people
in this country than the bailout would cost, why then, of course, the right
course is to help those enterprises stay alive and they carried out that
analysis. They said AIG failing would hurt more taxpayers than it's going to
cost us than if we help them get on their feet. The nice thing about this
particular program is the Federal Reserve now is going to be an 80% owner of
AIG. So we don't just put the money in, and take the downside if you will.
We now are going to be the owner of this enterprise and make sure we get the
upside of this as well, when this thing's turned around.
ROBERTS: Governor, during the primary campaign you were always stressing the
importance of business experience as a prerequisite to become president of
the United States. Let me remind viewers of something you said the first of
February of this year, back in Denver, regarding Senator john McCain.
ROMNEY: He has a number of things that are great strengths of his but he
happened to say that the economy was not his strong suit. Well, at a time
like this, in a country like this, I think it's important to have a
president for whom the economy is his strong suit.
ROBERTS: So Governor Romney, things have gotten worse with the economy since
then. The question is based on what you said back there in February, is John
McCain the right person for the job at this time in America's economic
history?
ROMNEY: Well, I was trying to convince people that I was the right guy for
the job and that just didn't work, as you know. In the current setting
there's no question that john McCain has by far the most economic experience
of any of the people that are either in the presidential or the vice
presidential contest.
ROBERTS: How so? What's the economic experience that he has?
ROMNEY: Well, he's been in the Senate for 25 years and has been through
recessions, through upsides, down sides.
ROBERTS: Joe Biden has been there for 36 years.
ROMNEY: Joe Biden has been concentrating on foreign policy, by the way he's
been wrong on foreign policy for 30 years. John McCain has been
concentrating on the commerce committee for instance, and that's given him
the kind of experience that allowed him to work with President Reagan,
President Ford, President Clinton, and so forth and fashion economic policy,
that frankly has allowed America to outgrow our European competitors, to
create many tens of millions of jobs when they haven't, and it's that kind
of policy that's or experience that's allowed him to say you know what?
Don't raise tax now, keep taxes down. Make sure we trade with our countries
and do what we have to do to become energy independent. Don't do what Barack
Obama is saying, which is not allowing drilling offshore, not building a
nuclear power plant. So that's why John McCain has a plan to actually get
this economy going again.
ROBERTS: Governor, as you know, yesterday McCain's senior advisor said none
of these candidates has the experience to run a major corporation like
Hewlett Packard. You always, again whether you're trying to sell yourself or
not, touted the importance of business experience, the importance of
actually being a hands on manager as an important prerequisite to become
president of the United States because you know how to manage budgets. You
talk about John McCain's business experience, then Carly Fiorina says he
doesn't have the experience to run a corporation.
*ROMNEY: Well she says that no one has the experience running for office, to
run a corporation. I think she's just misinformed in that regard. I would be
happy to hire John McCain and Sarah Palin to run a business that I'm an
investor in.* I can also tell you that when you compare John McCain with
Barack Obama, it's a pretty clear comparison that John McCain has experience
that's been, a lot of developed judgment that you need in a time like this
and Barack Obama who has been a community organizer and then a state
senator. Who's been a U.S. Senator for three years, two of which, years he's
been running for president. He just doesn't have any relevance experience to
help our economy in such a critical time and that's why I think you're
finding that John McCain is surging in public support, bigger and bigger
crowds because they realize you got to have a person who has been there, who
has been at the helm when the seas are rough. That's exactly where he's been
during these last 25 years.
*Mitt Romney Touts McCain's Economic Experience and Plan to Get U.S. Out of
Current Crisis* (FNC 09/17/08 7:57am)
STEVE DOOCY: A lot of people out there on Main Street are looking at Wall
Street and they're saying man, you guys really messed things up. What is,
and I was reading that you had some talking points about what John McCain
wants to do with the economy and financial reform.
MITT ROMNEY: Well, first of all, with regards to Wall Street, he wants to
put in place a program of transparency so we can see what's actually on the
balance sheets of the various companies there. Secondly, he wants to revamp
the entire regulatory structure so we don't have the kind of excesses which
were caused when republicans and democrats all were encouraging these banks
to put out mortgages that were being handed out like candy and it caused
this mortgage crisis and the housing crisis. Beyond that, he wants to
strengthen our economy by lowering our taxes, making trade available
throughout the world but by making sure it's fair and of course, investing
in new technology. Technology is really the future growth vehicle for our
economy. It is a plan that has been tested and tried time and time again. I
really think that it's critical for us to say that Barack Obama's plan of
raising taxes and cutting off trade, and also saying that we can't drill for
more oil, that's a plan that would cause really economic hardship in this
country.
GRETCHEN CARLSON: Governor, I've been wondering if your phone has been
ringing at 3:00 a.m. the last few nights from John McCain because you, no
doubt, would have a lot of information to share on how this economy should
be handled. By all accounts, John McCain and Barack Obama are not economic
experts. So does it rely then back on experience of the individual or their
advisors?
*ROMNEY: Well, of course you want to have a president who understands how
the economy works, and who has been in the economy at a time when it has had
ups and downs. John McCain has been in the U.S. Senate 25 years. He was part
of the Reagan revolution which helped really propel the growth of our
economy.* Frankly, we have been adding tens of millions of jobs when Europe
has been adding no jobs other than government jobs. So John McCain was part
of that. *He has been with the nation's economic gurus as we went through
policy that built this economy, and he has been through good times and bad
times. He has learned from that experience.* Barack Obama at the time was a
community organizer and a state senator. He just doesn't have the
experience, I believe, to lead the country at such a critical time for our
economy.
DOOCY: And it is a critical time. Of course, Governor, today we are talking
about the bridge loan the government is making to AIG, and then a couple of
weeks ago there was the bailout of Fannie and Freddie that is the pillar of
our mortgage institutions here in the united states of America. It's
interesting, though, when Barack Obama says he's going to fix all that
stuff, when you look at, according to the Center for Responsive Politics,
the top three U.S. Senators who have gotten the most money from employees
and pacs at Fannie and Freddie, number one is Chris Dodd who runs that
banking committee, number three is John Kerry who's been there for a very
long time, and number two is Barack Obama, who has only been there two years
and yet he has wracked up $120,000 in contributions from the people at
Fannie and Freddie.
ROMNEY: Well, that's quite a revelation, I must admit, and there's no
question that politicians, frankly, on both sides of the aisle, in many
cases are far too cozy with the enterprises that they regulate or that they
oversee, and in this case, you found one more circumstance of that happening
*. I do think that it was appropriate for the Federal Reserve and for the
treasury to step in and to stabilize these enterprises where a lot of
people's future are connected to those enterprises. I'm not arguing that it
was a mistake to help AIG and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the connection
between money and politics is very, very disappointing, indeed.*
Highlight #4
*Pawlenty tries to Dismiss McCain's Flip Flop on Deregulation *(NBC:
09/17/08 07:12am)
MATT LAUER: Governor Pawlenty, yesterday on our program your Presidential
Candidate John McCain said that he did not think the government should bail
out AIG. The government did. Did he get it wrong? Did he not understand
it?
TIM PAWLENTY: Well certainly Senator McCain does not support the bailout of
AIG on a philosophical or ideal level, matt. But if you look at the
practicalities of the implications of letting AIG fail in terms of what it
would mean to average citizens and the destabilizing of the credit markets
and the financial markets, something needed to be done. So he is willing to
at least look at these kind of options.
LAUER: Well well wait a second; he did not think it should happen. So did
he not understand the impact that AIG's failing would have on those average
citizens you just talked about?
PAWLENTY: Well I think he does understand it*. He doesn't, like he said
yesterday, he doesn't support the bailout but he also understands that
something needed to be done to try to minimize or mitigate the consequences
of these kinds of institutions crashing. *
[…]
LAUER: On this program yesterday John McCain said this: "Greed and excess
and corruption has beset Wall Street. They've treated it like a casino and
the need to be held accountable and stop walking away with these fat cat
packages." *This is a guy throughout his entire career has wanted less
government regulation, is he now calling for more government regulation.*
PAWLENTY: Well I think Matt you got to look at the whole record and in 2005,
2006 and in early 2000 John McCain is the one who said Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac are out of control. He authored legislation to try to clean it
up and crack down at them; the congress did not pass that. *He also has
talked about these kind of issues and the need to regulate and crack down on
thee industries in the past.* You also look at where the money is coming
from and form Wall Street Barack Obama has received more money from Senator
McCain. SO it's not accurate Matt, it is not accurate to say that Senator
McCain has not purposed to crack down on institutions like Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac and he saw this coming in 2005 and 2006 when he proposed
legislation to address it. He also has said by the way, just to respond to
my friend Governor Richardson, the answer in this crisis is not to raise
taxes and do things that are going to discourage job growth like Barack
Obama wants to do.
[…]
PAWLENTY: One of the reasons that Barack Obama opted out of the public
financing system is because he had created his own small dollar, grassroots
fundraising. It sure didn't look like that at Barbara Streisand's house
last night.
Highlight #5
*The Break-up: Media's Love Affair With John McCain Is Over, But Why?* (FNC
09/17/08 10:20am)
MEGYN KELLY: Well believe it or not, once there was a cozy relationship
between John McCain and the reporters who crammed onto the Straight Talk
Express. Yes, it is true. Hardly remember it right? Well, that is because
now it is quite apparent that the love fest is officially over. […] Well
McCain's former mainstream media fans slamming him in print, and on TV, just
about everywhere now. So what exactly caused the breakup of the love affair?
[…] People loved John McCain's accessibility to the media, he'd invite
people on the back of the Straight Talk Express, there was no curtain
between him and the media.
BERNIE GOLDBERG: I never believed that was the real reason, that was always
the conventional wisdom reason. I think the reason why the media used to
love John McCain is that he was running against George Bush, who was
perceived as a conservative, and that's why they liked him. *They liked him
because John McCain was not reliably conservative. That John McCain seemed
to like sticking his thumb in Republican eyes, in that he seemed more
concerned with what liberal democrats would think of him over what
conservative republicans would. That's why they used to like him.* The
reason the love affair is over, a couple of reasons, first, it soured when
he was running not against a republican, but against a liberal democrat.
That'll sour the liberal media on any republican. Then, the second reason
which the media never even factored in, he might actually win. They never
counted on that. The third reason is that *they think he sold out. How dare
he put a Sarah Palin, whom they detest, on the ticket. If only he had put
Joe Lieberman, who on almost every issue under the sun is a liberal
democrat, on the ticket then he would have been principled. But Sarah Palin?
And the final reason, and the newest one, is that John McCain they say isn't
the same John McCain. Now he's nasty, he runs campaign commercials that
aren't 100 percent true.* Well, boo hoo, that's what politics is about. It's
not 100 percent true, and neither are Obama's. When Obama said that John
McCain would keep us in Iraq for a hundred years, that wasn't the entire
statement. He said, as long as there are no casualties, as long as no
Americans were getting hurt. And I don't remember the media being upset
about that.
KELLY: This is a good example. When McCain stretched the truth on the taxes,
we called him out on that. When Obama stretched the truth on the hundred
year war, we called him out on that. The bias is seen when they attack only
on one side, and they leave the other side unmentioned. And the viewers
don't always pick up on that because it's sort of an absence of information
that they're being effected by.
GOLDBERG: And there's a brand new example that's only 24 hours old. Carly
Fiorina, McCain's chief economist on the campaign, said that neither Sarah
Palin nor McCain was qualified to run a major American corporation. And
there's more to it. The Obama campaign directed reporters to a YouTube spot
where McCain said that, and they cut it off right at that point, that
neither McCain or Sarah Palin was ready to run a company. But what she said
in the very next breath, not a minute later, a nano-second later, is that
neither is Barack Obama or Joe Biden. And the media didn't get upset about
that.
KELLY: You mentioned Palin, what is it about Governor Palin that has sent
some in the mainstream media over the edge?
GOLDBERG: To me, that's the single most important question that could be
asked about Palin. And I don't believe it's simply that liberal reporters
don't like her conservative positions. I don't believe that that's the
entirety of it. I think it's a cultural issue more than it's a political
issue. The idea that, what is it with this woman, she has five kids, she has
a baby with down syndrome, her daughter's having a baby. I mean, liberal
elite people they have daughters who are having sex, and who get pregnant,
but if you're going to go to Princeton next semester you don't have a baby.
What is it with this woman? *A Canadian writer summed it up perfectly, she
said Sarah Palin has captured the white trash vote in America. That's how
the media sees this. They see Middle America, they see people who aren't
like them, as white trash. And that's the problem.*
Highlight #6
*McCain Attacks Obama for Fundraising During an Economic Crisis While his
Surrogates Suggest McCain Invented the Blackberry and Could Not Run a Major
Corporation *(NBC 09/17/08 07:11am)
JOHN MCCAIN: Talking about siding with the people, siding with the people,
just before he flew off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbara Streisand
and his celebrity friends. Let me tell you my friends there is no place I'd
rather be than here with the working men and women of Ohio.
ANDREA MITCHELL: *But John McCain came close the night before. Raising more
than $5 Million at a fancy hotel in Miami from his top donors.*
TED JOHNSON: This is the point in the process where you want to appeal to
the regular guy; you don't want to make it look like your elite.
MITCHELL: McCain and Obama are crisscrossing the country raising millions in
private, in public trading charges about a bad economy.
JOHN MCCAIN: Sarah Palin and I are going to reform Wall Street; we're going
to reform Washington.
MITCHELL: Rejoined Tuesday by Sarah Palin, McCain Proposed a 9/11-style
commission to find out what went wrong with Wall Street.
OBAMA: This isn't 9/11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need
now is leadership that gets us out.
MCCAIN: Senator Obama saw an economic crisis and has found a political
opportunity. My friends this is not a time for political opportunist. This
is a time for leadership.
MITCHELL: *Along the way a few stumbles, McCain's economic advisor suggested
the Senator's commerce committee even helped create the blackberry. Later
another aid defended that as a boneheaded joke. Then a top McCain surrogate
trying to defend what she had said about Palin didn't do any favors for
McCain: When you were asked whether Sarah Palin had the experience to run a
major company like Hewlett Packard, which you did, and you said no I don't,
but you know what, that's not what she's running for.*
CARLY FIORINA: Well I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation,
I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation.
Highlight #7
*Joe Scarborough: If John McCain Invented The Blackberry Then So Did I *(MSNBC
09/17/08 07:01am)
WILLIE GEIST: Speaking of John McCain though, do you like your little
handful of magic?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I love it, it's magic.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: It's a love hate relationship. […]
GEIST: DO you know who you have to thank for that?
SCARBOROUGH: Who?
GEIST: Senator John McCain.
SCARBOROUGH: No.
BRZEZINSKI: *No No No, he doesn't use computers.*
GEIST: *Yes, Al Gore invented the Internet; well not really, he kind of said
that but not really. Now we are just learning yesterday from a senior
policy advisor for the McCain campaign that John McCain very well may be
responsible for the Blackberry.* Listen to this exchange with a reporter:
REPORTER: What did he do on the commerce committee that Americans could look
at and say; oh this is the guy that understands financial markets? I mean
correct me if I am wrong . . .
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN: He did this [Holds up Blackberry] Telecommunications of
the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, come right
from the commerce committee. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain
helped create and that's what he did.
GEIST: On the commerce committee John McCain helped create the Blackberry.
SCARBOROUGH: *He's saying that because congress passed the Telecom Act in, I
think it was in 1996, that that led to the Blackberry. Which means that I
too invented the Blackberry.*
GEIST: Joe Scarborough invented the Blackberry.
BRZEZINSKI: That's amazing.
SCARBOROUGH: *And so did about a thousand other members of congress.*
[…]
Highlight #8
*John McCain Wins the "Generic Off" Contest for his Attempt to Change the
Meaning of Fundamental *(CMDY: 09/16/08 09:10pm)
JON STEWART: While the crisis on Wall Street will ultimately affect millions
of Americans, yesterday the crisis affected four Americans in a deeply
personal way.
JOHN MCCAIN: The American economy is in a crisis.
BARACK OBAMA: The most serious financial crisis that we have seen in
generations.
JOE BIDEN: The crisis that you've been facing on Main Street is now hitting
Wall Street.
SARAH PALIN: Let me tell you something that is going on today in our world,
particularly here in our nation that needs some shakin up and some fixin.
STEWART: *Did she win a contest? What, is it a calling? We gotta do some
shakin up*. I see what is happening here, it's an economic crisis,
complicated issue, the solutions that are needed are probably unpopular and
undoubtedly confusing, perhaps it's time for a good old fashion candidate
Generic Off. Generic Off brought to you by soap and food. Food it's what's
for eating. The candidates flipped a coin to decide who went first but the
coin was repossessed. What the heck lets here from the Junior Senator from
Illinois:
OBAMA: We're going to get the economy back on track and our financial
institutions back on track.
STEWART: Well in sir, forceful sounding, totally empty. Like a hollow
piñata. Republicans, your response:
MCCAIN: *We've got to fix it. We got to fix it and we will.*
STEWART: We must fix it. We must use some sort of tool, an economic tool
that was made in America, McCain 08!
[…]
BIDEN: I count John McCain as a personal friend. I don't doubt that John
cares, he just doesn't think, he doesn't think that we have any
responsibility to help people that are hurting.
STEWART: This is not a passive aggressive off. *This is a generic off. John
McCain is a good man he's just a horrible human being. He's a brave
soldier, but a stupid idiot. He kills babies. I love him, he's
terrible. This
is a huge opening for the Republican's, […] lets hear from "could possibly
be President" Palin:*
PALIN: This crisis happened for several reasons.
STEWART: Wow, wow, this is a Generic Off, reasons, that's dangerous
territory. Tread carefully. I hope they are generic reasons.
PALIN: Several reasons, which have to be addressed right now.
STEWART: You've given us a what and a when, don't give us a how.
PALIN: Guys and Gals, our regulatory system is outdated and it needs a
complete overhaul.
STEWART*: Oh Guys and Gals, dudes and dames, don't pay any attention to what
she's saying. Do not heed her call; she is not actually suggesting that the
government be responsible for regulating the financial markets in anyway,
brohems and betties.*
PALIN: Our economy will grow, and we will get government out of the way of
private sector progress.
STEWART: *Great save! She only got specific enough to completely contradict
herself. We need more regulation, we need more regulations so that we can
get government out of the economy, and then normal people's brains can
explode*. All right Johnny McCainy, she set them up, mow them down.
MCCAIN*: Still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.*
*STEWART: NOOOO! That is generic but it is also wrong.* You're supposed to
talk about crisis. You know what is going to happen now. Oh in a few
hours: [Attack ad show] Don't you know the Internet moves quickly now sir?
It looks like curtains for Senator McCain*, but as in any generic off you
get one more chance to go into the retraction chamber. Where you can either
take back what you said about the fundamentals of our economy, or
fundamentally try to change the meaning of fundamental. *
MCCAIN: I was talking about the fundamentals of America, which is the
workers, their productivity, their innovation, their incredible performance
for many many years.
STEWART: *Sure you were, ladies and gentlemen we have a winner. That was
John McCain speaking from his new circular talk express. Whatever it is,
shoot from the hips, tell it like it is John McCain. Apparently John McCain
is the only POW to be brainwashed after his captivity.*
Local Highlight #1
*Local Tampa News Covers McCain Speech on Economy, Interviews Him on Same as
Bush, Sarah Palin, Reform *(WFLA-NBC-FL 09/16/08 11:01pm)
KEITH CATE: The economy was once again the hot topic on the campaign trail
today. Senator John McCain talking about it during his stop at Tampa. The
republican presidential candidate spoke to a crowd of more than 4,000 people
at the Tampa convention center. While in south Tampa he also shot a new
television ad before heading to the battleground state of Ohio where he
talked a little more about the economy. And there was a new twist in his
remarks. Yesterday he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Today
he defined or perhaps refined fundamentals not as economic facts and figures
but as working people. Tonight more from our exclusive interview with John
McCain. During our previous newscast you heard him answer questions about
taxes, offshore drilling and a national catastrophe fund but we also asked
him about governor Sarah Palin, his ties to president bush and the slogan
"change."
And this idea of change, this is something Obama has used the word over and
over since beginning his campaign. But you said change is more than just a
slogan, but it looks like you are embracing this idea of change. Is change
the one thing that's going to get you and Governor Palin to the white house,
more so than this idea of experience, or lack of experience?
JOHN MCCAIN: Reform of government, and I have a record of reform. Senator
Obama does not. Governor Palin has a record of reform, Senator Obama does
not. Reform and prosperity, the economy is the main issue, obviously. It is
affecting this election and all Americans. So we have to reform government
in order to restore trust and confidence, and create jobs and fix our
economy. Senator Obama has no record of ever being actively engaged in these
issues. And I fought against my party. He hasn't.
CATE: Democrats keep trying to paint you as the next President Bush. Can you
give me three examples of how you differ?
MCCAIN: The war in Iraq, climate change, spending, torture of prisoners.
There's a very long list. I have called attention to climate change a long
time ago. I opposed the spending practices. I vociferously spoke out and was
criticized in my own party against the way the Iraq war was being conducted.
Senator Obama has never taken on his party on a single issue.
CATE: Governor Sarah Palin has spoken, well, when she speaks a lot of people
respond but she clearly sparked the republican base out there. Some have
wondered though, would she be your vice-presidential running mate had
Senator Obama chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate?
MCCAIN: I wouldn't have had his election as part of the calculation. My
selection is what's best for America.
[…]
Local Highlight #2
*Local Tampa News Covers McCain Speech on Economy, Interviews Him on
Offshore Drilling *(WFLA-NBC-FL 09/16/08 6:01pm)
JEFF PATTERSON: John McCain today flanked by his wife and supporters but he
wasted no time focusing his message on the troubles on Wall Street. A week
ago the focus of the nation seemed to be on John McCain's choice of a
vice-presidential running mate and her lipstick. Today the senator focused
his campaign and his remarks on the economy. […] Following yesterday's
collapse on wall street, McCain told a crowd of more than 4,000 supporters
at the Tampa Convention Center that greed and bad decisions are to blame […]
McCain says government has a clear responsibility to act in the public
interest in the face of an economic collapse. […] McCain spoke for just 17
minutes in front of an enthusiastic crowd. eleven of those minutes were
focused on wall street. But he used part of his brief stay to attack his
opponent. […] McCain also spoke today about ending America's dependence on
foreign oil by increasing renewable sources of energy and increasing
drilling offshore for American oil and natural gas reserves.
GAYLE SIERENS: And there were some demonstrators outside the convention
center during McCain's visit. They protested his stance on the war and his
choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. However most were
impressed with his message and the man.
KAY WEEKS: I think he said right on the button things that I wanted to hear,
that if he's going to do those things, we'll have a better government
because of it.
ALDY SANDS: I like him. he's a sound guy. he's got a lot to say. I hope he's
our next president.
JOEY VARS: I came out today just to show support for John McCain. I think he
has great leadership ability and should be able to make our nation prosper.
[…]
KEITH CATE: During our exclusive interview with Senator John McCain we asked
him about offshore drilling and if a compromise is in the works.
Again, a chant at this forum, drill, drill, drill. it's a big issue. Both
parties in Congress now talking about reducing the currents 125-mile buffer
in Florida's gulf coast to 50. Senator Bill Nelson democrat strongly
opposed. Governor Crist seems to favor it. There seems to be a compromise in
place, brewing on Capital Hill. Do you think that compromise will take
place, maybe by November, and what will the result be for Florida?
JOHN MCCAIN: Well, democrats are caving in. they oppose nuclear power. they
oppose offshore drilling. they oppose most everything new and innovative. I
hope that we reach an agreement. But it's got to be, one, the states agree.
I want the states to be able to agree to that. But I have been for it ever
since gas went to four dollars a gallon. And Senator Obama has opposed it,
just as he is opposed to storing and reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. so
it's very clear our different positions on this. Now maybe he will switch
again as he has on many others.
CATE: Your running mate, Governor Sarah Palin supports the idea of drilling
for oil in ANWR. I'm just wondering if she is getting you to soften up on
your stance against it?
MCCAIN: Not yet. No, I would not change. But it's one reason why they call
us mavericks.
[…]
Local Highlight #3
*Local Tampa News Covers McCain Protesters and Clashes Outside of
Event*(WFTS-ABC-FL 09/16/08 6:02pm)
REBECCA MEDINA: Good evening. You are absolutely right, there was definitely
a clash of ideas out here today and as the crowd continued to grow
throughout the day, so did the tension. The crowd waited patiently inside to
see their republican pick for the presidency. As some supporters cheered and
chanted, one teacher brought his government class for a lesson. […] But as
these excited folks inside anticipated the arrival of John McCain, others
outside just wanted to blast McCain. Antiwar protesters, pro-choice
advocates, union workers, and college students all at the convention center
to tell John McCain… [Obama! Obama!] As the hours passed, the crowd of
protesters outside got a bit bigger, louder, and angrier. especially whether
they came face-to-face with republican supporters. One McCain supporter
rigged a sign for one of the protesters. Others just lashed out in a war of
words. […] This went on for an hour after John McCain spoke. And in all of
the name calling and screaming from both sides, there was never actual talk
of the issue. Never a single conversation about the war in Iraq, the
economy, abortion, or any other issues so eloquently painted on all of these
signs. And there is some good news tonight about what happened out here
today, no one, absolutely no one ended up in the slammer.
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