[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Morning 08/19/08

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*Main Topics: *Rick Warren, Frist & Jindal Surrogates, Civil Forum Debate, Atlanta Fundraiser Protests Summary of Shift: * *Heavy Vice Presidential nominee speculation ran rampant throughout all networks, ahead of Obama's expected announcement this week. A politico story claims McCain will make his announcement on the day following Obama's official nomination, August 29th, which also happens to be McCain's 72nd birthday. Obama's camp's cheating accusations against McCain at the Civil Forum on Saturday continue to draw speculation on the bias of the media towards Obama. The candidate's performance at the Civil Forum debate was another main topic of political discussion. Tropical Storm Fay hits the Florida mainland today, with heavy attention to its heavy rains, flooding, and electricity outages covered. Pakistani President Musharraf's resignation draws discussion surrounding the fate of U.S.-Pakistan relations and the country's commitment to fighting extremists within it's borders and that of Afghanistan's. Afghanistan was also in the news due to a second day of Taliban suicide attacks against U.S. bases surrounding the country's independence holiday. Georgia and Russia began exchanging prisoners. Russia vows that it is pulling troops out of the country, but evidence of such is still unfounded. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is in Belgium for an emergency NATO meeting on the matter, promising that Russia will be punished for its actions. Olympic coverage continues. Highlights: 1. ABC: Rick Warren Discusses McCain's Credibility In Light of Marriage Infidelity 2. FNC: Charlie Frist Discusses McCain's Genuineness When Speaking on Faith, And Need For Energy Independence 3. FNC: Bobby Jindal Talks McCain's Oil Rig Visit, Energy Needs, and McCain's Pro-Life Record 4. FNC: McCain Civil Forum Cheating Scandal and Bias in the Media Analyzed Local Highlights: 1. NBC-Atlanta, GA-11: McCain Interviewed By Local Atlanta News, Protesters Surrounding Fundraising Visit Highlighted 2. NBC-Atlanta, GA-11: Local Atlanta News Covers Interviews McCain On His Fundraiser and the Ralph Reed/Jack Abranoff Lobbying Scandal 3. CBS-Atlanta-46 News: Protesters Against McCain and Privatized Social Security Highlighted Surrounding Fundraiser in Atlanta Highlights, No Clips: 1. NBC – MATT LAUER: "MATT LAUER: And if Senator Obama's move is the punch, when does John McCain throw the counter-punch?" CHUCK TODD: "Well, look, there's a report out this morning that somehow he may do it the Friday after Obama accepts the Democratic nomination. So it would be the day after the end of the Democratic Convention. The McCain campaign is shooting down that report a little bit, saying that's not true, don't believe the hype. But he is planning a very, very large rally, something McCain doesn't do very often, in Dayton, OH. So that's what's got a lot of people assuming that on McCain's 72nd birthday next Friday is when he'll announce his pick Matt." Clips: Highlight #1 *Rick Warren Discusses McCain's Credibility In Light of Marriage Infidelity*(ABC 08/18/08 10:00pm) CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: Is it fair to say that in some ways this is a character test that you're giving these two men? RICK WARREN: Well, I'm testing their character, I'm testing their convictions, I'm testing their confidence. MCFADDEN: A religion test? WARREN: No, absolutely not. I'm totally opposed to religious tests for the presidency. I think it's appropriate to know what a person believes, what their religion is, but I don't think that's the test for the presidency. MCFADDEN: I've heard you say you want to understand what their personal relationship with Jesus is. WARREN: Yes. MCFADDEN: Does that mean a Jew or a Muslim would be out as far as you're concerned as president? WARREN: Not at all. I can vote for a Jewish president easily. The only kind of president I don't think I could vote for is would be an atheist. I could not vote for an atheist president because I just think that's pretty arrogant. I think that the presidency is too big for any human individual. And I think we do need god. […] MCFADDEN: McCain has had his own problems with the evangelical community. Most recently questions about whether he was faithful to his first wife. Let me be very specific with you. John McCain was divorced April 2 of 1980. He had actually filed for a wedding license March 6, a month earlier, of 1980. Sounds as if he had been involved with another woman before divorcing his wife. Is that a problem for you as you look at John McCain's candidacy for the presidency? WARREN: All leadership is built on credibility. Leadership is built on trust. If you don't tell the truth, and I'm not just talking about in an affair, but in a lot of other areas, then you lose the right to lead. Now, is forgiveness possible? Yes. But there's a difference between forgiveness and trust. MCFADDEN: Can you trust John McCain at this point? WARREN: I think I can because of a consistent period since that time. MCFADDEN: For Saturday's forum, Barack Obama won the coin toss and went first. But warren asked both men essentially the same questions on a wide range of topics. It was quickly clear they held wildly different views. […] Though the crowd gave both standing ovation, John McCain's answers clearly played better in the room. On Sunday, an NBC reporter claims people associated with Obama's campaign suggested that McCain may have had unfair access to Warren's questions. A charge both Warren and McCain deny. You know, there are some people who feel this a sham operation. That really we know you as an evangelical are a republican, a John McCain supporter. The numbers seem to support that, that most evangelicals overwhelmingly are registered as republicans and support john McCain. WARREN: Well this is the first time I'll mention on the air, I'm not a registered republican or a democrat. I'm actually registered as an independent. So that might be the big surprise to America. The truth is, I think there are a significant number of people out there who are disillusioned and disenfranchised by both sides. I'm somewhere here in the middle and I would like to find and create a common ground for the common good. MCFADDEN: But ultimately you've got to vote for one of them. WARREN: Of course you do and that's going to have to be a personal choice. I'm a pastor, not a prophet. So I never predict who anybody else is going to vote for. MCFADDEN: But he's more than willing to offer advice about how he hopes his parishioners will go about making their decisions. Yesterday's church service was entitled, the type of leadership America needs. WARREN: Satan does not have any new ideas. The three basic traps that every leader falls into, money, sex and power. *MCFADDEN: The antidote to such sins, Warren believes can be found in the teachings of the Bible about integrity, generosity and humility and go to the candidate's character. He leaves it up to those in the pews to decide which candidate comes closest to sharing their view. And that will come as a surprise to some as issues like abortion have been seen as a litmus test for evangelical voters.* Sunday afternoon, we talked to Rick Warren one last time about how he felt the session went. WARREN: I was very surprised and pleased by how it came off. The fact that both of these men were able to totally explain their different views without attacking each other. MCFADDEN: So on balance, how do you feel? Could you go into the voting booth and cast your ballot for either one of them? WARREN: I never take sides, and I will tell you this. I'm for my friends and they both happen to be my friends. MCFADDEN: Do you think at some point, Rick, you owe the people who look to you for guidance for more than that? I mean, at some point before this election are going to let up? WARREN: No, and the reason why is I think they're smart enough on their own. I don't think anybody needs anybody else telling them who to vote for. MCFADDEN: So if someone were to come to you and say, you know what? Forget character, I'm going to vote for the guy who is opposed to abortion. Would you say they need to go back and think harder? WARREN: No. I would say you probably made your hierarchy of values and for you the value of preserving life is the top value. Great. Good decision.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTm_pljPyI> Highlight #2 *Charlie Frist Discusses McCain's Genuineness When Speaking on Faith, And Need For Energy Independence* (FNC 08/19/08 7:59am) STEVE DOOCY: […] In the world of politics your name is frequently mentioned as perhaps a number two for John McCain. What do you make of the fact that it sounds like either Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday it sounds like Barack Obama is finally going to reveal who his number two is? CHARLIE FRIST: Well, I guess the reality is eventually that decision has to be made, on both sides of the aisle, obviously. And talking about number two is not really a concern of mine. […] GRETCHEN CARLSON: Will you comment at least on the event on Saturday night, when the two candidates got together and spoke at the civil forum at the Saddleback Church on Saturday? I'm sure that you saw at least parts of it. What was your opinion of how that went down? For me, it was a precursor of the debates that we are going to see later on this fall. FRIST: Well I think that's probably accurate. Obviously I was very pleased with how Senator McCain did*. His answers were straightforward, straight talk if you will, you know he just speaks from the heart and says what he believes in his soul. And when you see that communicated so forth rightly, it's hard not to admire, to respect, and care deeply about where he speaks and what he says and the sincerity and genuineness of his message.* DOOCY: Governor, also later on today your candidate John McCain is going to make a tour of an oil platform out in the Gulf of Mexico because he does support drilling for more oil in the outer continental shelf. Barack Obama has kind of modulated his answer. He said, well he's for it kinda. Is there a difference between his stand, Obama's, and McCain's? FRIST: Well no question about it, Senator McCain is very forthright about the notion of being sure that we have sufficient domestic supply of oil so that we're not so dependent on foreign oil. As we all know, I think pretty well now, there's a transfer of wealth that's occurring, about 700 billion dollars a year that we're sending to the Middle East. Some of these people are people that don't like the United States very much. You know, when the founders created this country they signed a declaration. It was a declaration of independence not the declaration of dependence. We have to be independent. This is as much an economic issue as it is a national security issue. Senator McCain understands that. And he's understood it for a long time. And that's why I think he's taken this position to be sure that individual states have the opportunity or the right to make this call, rather than the Federal government suppressing our independence and so we got to move forward as a country. John McCain knows it, he gets it, and he understands it. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E73M-gBxWLQ> Highlight #3 *Bobby Jindal Talks McCain's Oil Rig Visit, Energy Needs, and McCain's Pro-Life Record* (FNC 08/19/08 8:43am) BOBBY JINDAL: I'll repeat what I've told you before. I've got the job that I won't. Won't be the nominee. Don't want to be the nominee. I'm certainly voting for Senator McCain, want to see him as President, think his policies on energy and cutting taxes are better for our country than Senator Obama's. But I'm going to support him as Governor, not as vice president. STEVE DOOCY: Governor, tell us a little bit about what john McCain is going to do today on an oil rig out in the Gulf of Mexico. *JINDAL: At 10:00 central time he'll be out there on a Chevron platform, and the point of his trip is to demonstrate that our country needs to an embrace an all of the above strategy to our energy crisis.* What we're doing now is crazy, not only with are we paying $3.70 or more per gallon, but we're also hurting our manufacturing base, given our high cost of energy. And what Senator McCain is doing today in Louisiana is emphasizing that we need to be drilling off our coast for oil and gas. It doesn't make sense to go and beg countries that are not friendly to us to produce more oil for us while we're not willing to drill ourselves. He's going to emphasize that drilling alone is not enough. We also need more coal, we need more nuclear energy, more conservation. Here's the crazy thing, Senator Obama has said he wants to raise taxes on coal and natural gas, he's said that nuclear energy is not the right answer for America. We need an all of the above approach. We need renewables, all of this needs to be part of breaking our dependence on foreign countries for energy. Our current policy makes no sense, in essence, we're borrowing money from China to pay countries that aren't always friendly to us for energy that's so important to our economy. GRETCHEN CARLSON: And Senator McCain made that point at the civil forum on Saturday night. He also made the point about how he feels about being pro-life, but interestingly enough Governor, just a few days before, he kind of put a trial balloon out there in saying that he may choose a pro-choice V.P. How do you align those two things, because Rick Warren didn't ask a follow-up question, couldn't in his forum, although that was the question begging to be asked Saturday night. JINDAL: Well, a couple of things. I'm certainly pro-life, and what is important to me is that Senator McCain himself is pro-life. *He's got a pro-life voting record, he's committed his administration to be pro-life.*Really the next President of the United States is going to have a tremendous influence through his appointment to the Supreme Court. One of the things we know about Senator Obama, his voting record, his rhetoric all suggest, you know, he's not for any type of restrictions. He said at the forum he was against late term abortions. He hasn't voted that way, however. What we know about Senator McCain that he's committed to having a pro-life administration. The most important thing that are going to be done by the next president on this issue, I believe, are going to be the appointments to the court. I'm looking for Supreme Court appointments that will actually read the constitution, not try to create law. Remember, this court gave us a 5-4 ruling striking down Louisiana's death penalty for child rapists. I'm not looking for another justice that's reading international laws, I'm not looking for another Justice that's looking at opinion polls. I want a Justice to read the constitution. Highlight #4 *McCain Civil Forum Cheating Scandal and Bias in the Media Analyzed* (FNC 08/18/08 8:20am) STEVE DOOCY: […] The McCain camp is angry that NBC may stand to the left. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, sent a letter to NBC complaining that their coverage of the event was biased because Andrea Mitchell suggested that John McCain essentially cheated and knew ahead a time, because he heard what had gone on. […] GRETCHEN CARLSON: […] Andrea Mitchell at NBC reports that potentially the Obama campaign, a little miffed that they think McCain may have heard some of those questions. Why would they go out of their way, both camps, why would the Obama camp go out of their way to make a point of this? And number two, why would Andrea Mitchell report this? BOB BECKEL: […] The Obama campaign should not have said anything here. Look, *McCain had a good day. And if you're looking for a reason that he has a good day you don't want to leave the impression that some other guy cheated. That's not John McCain, that's not the way you think about John McCain*. […] DENNIS PRAGER: *[…] I think most people who are fair about this believe that most people in the media want Barack Obama to win.* The question then that people will ask is does it effect their reporting? I think that it does. In this case, even if he did cheat and I don't believe for a second that he did, but even if he did, how do you explain how good he was in the second half of the debate? When he could not possibly have cheated?<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKPN0p0sr1o> *Local Highlight #1* *McCain Interviewed By Local Atlanta News, Protesters Surrounding Fundraising Visit Highlighted* (NBC-Atlanta, GA-11, 08/18/08 6:05pm) DENIS O'HAYER: The price tag for this fundraiser at the Marquis is very similar to the ones for Senator Barack Obama's fundraiser earlier this summer. Just over a couple of thousand to get in, tens of thousands to get close. And Georgia is a state that Barack Obama could make close, according to John McCain. That is why he is promising that he will come back. Senator McCain told me he sees Georgia as a battleground state, but unlike his visit in February, this Georgia stop includes no public campaigning. He insisted that that does not mean he really sees this state as safe. MCCAIN: I think we got a challenge here and I think we got to campaign here, and I look forward to it. It's a very important part of the nation. O'HAYER: Is that why you mention John Lewis as one of your three wise people during your interview with Rick Warren? MCCAIN: No, actually, I've had the honor of knowing John Lewis, who I know is a very dedicated member of the democratic party, but I've admired and respected him for many years. O'HAYER: McCain is running t.v. ads here, highlighting among other things, energy. Lately, he's been insisting on an all-of-the-above energy plan that includes offshore oil drilling, something he previously opposed. He again attacked Democratic rival, Barack Obama's suggestion that conservation measures like better tire inflation will do more faster to lower oil prices. MCCAIN: That's not the vision that Americans want, nor do they want him saying no to nuclear power which we have to have. O'HAYER: McCain said he would order conservation measures including hybrid vehicles for the government. But he said a McCain administration would not mandate conservation for consumers. MCCAIN: Americans are conserving as we speak, in fact, one of the reasons why the price of a barrel of oil went down is because the President announced that we are going to lift the Federal moratorium on offshore drilling. But also because the demand has been reduced. O'HAYER: And as we parted from our brief interview, Senator McCain shook my hand and said, I have to come back and campaign here. And we expect him sometime this Fall. […] TED HALL: Anti-McCain demonstrators picketed and chanted at the hotel entrance during McCain's arrival today. […] JON SHIREK: The anti-McCain demonstrators were from several groups that generally support democrats including labor unions such as AFL-CIO, and the teamsters, also anti-war groups were here. Organizations such as Iraq Vets Against the War. A retiree organization marched here against McCain and against a plan to privatize any part of social security. And the Democratic Party of Georgia blasted McCain saying that he swooped into Georgia simply to pick up some big checks from lobbyists and others at the private fundraiser and then left without campaign publicly. JANE KIDD: Barack Obama understands the struggles of everyday Georgians, and when he's elected to the White House, he will be working for them. He won't owe lobbyists anything. SHIREK: There were also a group of McCain supporters here, taking a stand in the midst of the Obama supporters. Georgia's Students for McCain, college students from all across Georgia.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkrPqot9dAE> Local Highlight #2 *Local Atlanta News Covers Interviews McCain On His Fundraiser and the Ralph Reed/Jack Abranoff Lobbying Scandal* (NBC-Atlanta, GA-11, 08/18/08 7:05pm) TED HALL: Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain with a quick stop here in Atlanta this afternoon. He was the star of a private campaign fundraiser here at the Marriot Marquis downtown. A lot of leading Georgia republicans paid thousands of dollars just to be there. But there was also some controversy about one Georgia republican who offered his help. […] DENNIS O'HAYER: That one Georgia republican, Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition who lost a primary fight for Lieutenant Governor two years ago. Many McCain supporters claim Reed was behind a whisper campaign that derailed McCain's 2000 presidential bid in the South Carolina primaries. Reed was also an associate of lobbyist, Jack Abranoff. Abranoff pled guilty in 2005 to Federal fraud charges in connection to a campaign involving Indian gambling casinos. John McCain chaired the Senate hearings into Abranoff's activities, but Reed was never even charged with wrong doing. On August 7th, Reed sent an email asking Georgia republicans to attend and contribute to McCain's fundraiser. Democrats pounced, charging McCain was violating his own standards. McCain said, Reed acted on his own. MCCAIN: He's had nothing to do with our campaign. Any role, formal or informal. My understanding is that he sent out an email on his own, but I had no communication with him whatsoever since I condemned the whole Abranoff affair. O'HAYER: There were reports that Reed told a Capitol Hill newspaper, McCain's Georgia Finance Chairman asked for his support. McCain said that's not true. Did the campaign to your knowledge ask him to send out an email? MCCAIN: I know the campaign did not. […] HALL: Of course we want to point out that 11alive News did leave several messages with Ralph Reed to get his side of the story but so far he has not called us back. *Outside the hotel, anti-McCain demonstrators chanted and marched. They protested McCain's positions on the war in Iraq, and privatizing part of social security. They also said McCain was in town to take campaign money from lobbyists with ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abranoff.* SEN. DAVID ADELMAN: Senator Obama has made a pledge to change the culture of corruption in Washington. John McCain today in Atlanta embraces the culture of corruption. HALL: Some McCain supporters from across our state also demonstrated. They're with the group, Georgia Students for McCain.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0N1RFKLSwc> Local Highlight #3 *Protesters Against McCain and Privatized Social Security Highlighted Surrounding Fundraiser in Atlanta* (CBS-Atlanta-46 News 08/18/08 3:05pm) STEPHANY FISHER: Republican presidential candidate, John McCain was in Atlanta tonight. But not everyone who showed up for the visit was there to support him. PROTESTER: What America wants! What America needs! Talk About it! What America has got to have! FISHER: Protesters gathered outside the Marriot Marquis where McCain's fundraiser was held. This group is upset with McCain over recent comments he made over social security. He called the system a disgrace and said it needs to be fixed. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lOVm_RV1U> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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