[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Morning 06/03/08

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*Main Topics:* McLobbyist, McBush, McCain's Iraq mistakes, Fallon interview, Bush tax cuts *Summary of Shift:* Primary mania has swept the networks as the democratic nomination process comes to a close. Bill Clinton's contemptuous statements for a *Vanity Fair* columnist received considerable airtime. It looks as though Senator Kennedy's surgery was a success. GM announced a massive plant closure in the face of rocketing fuel prices. Dick Cheney's inbreeding joke about West Virginia was a running subject of coverage. Highlights: 1) Steve Schmidt interviews a. Defends McCain's lobbyist ties, attacks Obama's Iran position b. Avoids discussion of McCain's foreign policy mistakes, instead attacks Obama 2) Bush tax cuts 3) Fallon and Iran 4) AZ sheriff, Joe Arpaio says he would endorse McCain if asked on "Fox and Friends" [no clip] Clips: Highlight #1 *Steve Schmidt Defends McCain Against Lobbyist Accusations and Attacks Obama's Iran Policies *(MSNBC 06/03/08 08:39am) [Clip of Gibbs] ROBERT GIBBS: Right now the McCain campaign is run by lobbyist and special interests. What do you think the administration is going to be run by? My guess is it's going to be lobbyists and special interests. The guy has been in Washington for 26 years. Everybody values his service to this country but having worked in Washington for 26 years, having your campaign run by lobbyist and special interests. I think people are going to ask themselves this question: what's going to change? And my guess is what your going to see is a lot of the same. […] STEVE SCHMIDT: What Mr. Gibbs is talking about is nonsense. The reality is *when it comes to lobbyists the McCain campaign has the toughest policy in the history of presidential campaigns. There are lobbyists all around Senator Obama's campaign.* […] Let me give you an example of something that counts here. The Farm Bill. Politicians don't want to vote against something called a Farm Bill in an election year because who wants to be attacked as being against farms? Senator McCain voted against that bill because it was bad news for the American people, loaded up with billions of dollars of corporate pork and wasteful spending. *Senator Obama voted for it because he wasn't tough enough to stand up, put the American people over the special interests*. Time and time again, Senator McCain, over the course of his career, has stood up to the special interests. He has been the single biggest and most effective voice for reform in Washington in the last generation. Senator Obama doesn't have that record. He has a lot of rhetoric. If it's going to change Washington though, you have to be able to be tough enough to stand up and Senator Obama has a record of not being able to do that. PAT BUCHANAN: The Senator addressed the pro-Israeli lobby, AIPAC yesterday in Washington. His message seemed to be […] that john McCain will be a far-more trustworthy and reliable defender of Israel than you could expect Barack Obama to be. Is that correct? SCHMIDT: What Senator McCain is talking about when it comes to Israel, America's most important ally in the region, is that Senator Obama pursues a path that will make the region more dangerous and will make the world more dangerous. If you talk to Israeli leaders, if you talk to our military commanders on the ground, the precipitous withdrawal from Iraq that Senator Obama advocates at a moment where we have turned a corner or now are winning there, would weaken Israel's security in the region, would weaken America's security in the region. His calls to go have unconditional meeting with President Ahmadinejad weaken the prestige of the American Presidency and make the world more dangerous. […] […] SCHMIDT: […] *One of the central lessons of history is that peace is secured through strength, not through weakness*. Going to meet with the Iranian president who has called Israel a stinking it corpse, who has said Israel's days are soon to be ended, who is developing nuclear weapons, who is supplying deadly munitions used to kill Americans in Iraq. What is it that senator Obama is going to say to him*? Is Senator Obama so arrogant that he believes he will charm his way into getting the Iranians to change their policies supporting terrorist organization?* *Roberts: Does McCain Understand Iraq? Schmidt: Let's Talk about Obama *(CNN 06/03/08 8:24pm) JOHN ROBERTS: What's Senator McCain going to be talking about tonight? STEVE SCHMIDT: […] Senator McCain is very excited to talk to the country and to talk about the great debate we ought to have in this country. *Our national security, getting the economy moving again, fixing health care, fixing the energy issue that affects so many millions of Americans.* And he's going lay, to begin to lay out the choice tonight between his vision and the likely democratic nominee's position, Senator Obama. ROBERTS: You chose New Orleans as the site for this speech because according to the campaign quoted, it epitomizes the government's failure to act. But it also brings President Bush into the conversation. Do you expect that while some people will talk about the differences between Senator McCain and President Bush, people who write about tonight's speech will also talk about what they have in common and that might not be so good for you. SCHMIDT: All elections are about the future. This election will be about the future. It's going to be about Senator McCain's vision to move this country forward versus Senator Obama's vision. *Senator Obama gives a great speech but a lot of his ideas will take us back, back to days of higher taxes, to a less secure America with regard to national security.* New Orleans is a city that more than any other in the country signifies to the American people what is broken about our government and institutions. *Senator Obama is fond of saying that John McCain represents a third term for George W. Bush. The reality is that Senator McCain has disagreed on issue after issue with President Bush over the last eight years. He is his own man. He has his own opinions. […]* ROBERTS: […] You say he has shown his independence over the eight years of the Bush administration and certainly ran on a different platform than President Bush did in the 2000 campaign. *But people have written about Senator McCain that he has run to the right to mollify the conservative base, and they're wondering when are we going to see this maverick that independents like so much out there on the campaign trail*? SCHMIDT: I think you see him every day. For instance, when this war was going so badly, the one person in America who stood up and said we're losing this war, we have to change the strategy. *He was attacked mercilessly for disloyalty by saying things were going badly. That person was John McCain. That strategy is working today. We are winning this war in Iraq.* Senator Obama opposed that change strategy. When we look at the energy bill that Vice President Cheney was a great supporter of in 2005, a give away to the oil companies, Senator Obama supported it, Senator McCain voted against it. Surprised? I think a lot of your viewers probably will be. Over the course of the campaign, Senator McCain is going to talk about his views, his vision, and a lot of times -- those views and that vision is different than the president's policy. Again, we ought to have a great debate about the future. When Senator Obama repeats his talking point 300 times a day about the third term of George Bush, it's a dishonest debate. It's one that does a disservice to the American people. ROBERTS: Let me come back to Iraq and by association Iran. Senator McCain has been hammering Barack Obama on his idea of meeting with Iranian leaders. Senator Obama has been mocking Senator McCain for saying late last week that U.S. troops in Iraq were backed down to pre-surge levels. Let's listen to what Senator Obama said. [Clip] BARACK OBAMA: He said, quote, we have drawn down to pre-surge levels. That's what he said. This is the guy who said I had no knowledge. John McCain was wrong. *ROBERTS: Steve, there are more troops in Iraq now than there were pre-surge. The Senator was incorrect when he said that. He's will once said that general David Petraeus drives around Baghdad in a light skinned humvee and not up armored one*. *Some people are wondering does Senator McCain have a full grasp of the facts on the ground there in Iraq?* SCHMIDT: Well, Senator McCain, of course he does. The reality here is the strategy That Senator McCain advocated is working. "The Washington Post" in an editorial this week talked about politicians like Barack Obama trying to reconsider their rhetoric about the fact that this war is lost. Three of the five brigading that were part of the surge are home. Two more are coming home. We are drawing down troops in Iraq. *Reality is that the strategy Senator McCain advocated has turned a corner in Iraq.* That was a strategy opposed by Senator Obama. Judgment counts here, too. After promise that he wouldn't do it, Senator Obama voted against funds for combat troops in the field. He's not ready to be commander in chief. On the biggest question this country has faced, over the last couple of years, while the two of them have been in the senate, t was this question about how we change the strategy in Iraq. *Senator McCain advocated a change in strategy that has led to where we are today, which is success in Iraq. We are winning this war after many years of mismanagement.* Senator Obama said that strategy would not succeed. He was wrong. Senator McCain was right. Senator Obama's trying to it pick around the fringes because he's wrong on the big question. […] The difficult debate in this country is who can secure the peace for the next generation, and that person is Senator McCain. Highlight #2 *Admiral Fallon Denies Plans for Iran, Outlines Prescription for Iraq *(CNN 06/03/08 7:24am) KYRA PHILLIPS: Do you feel you were pushed out, Admiral? WILLIAM FALLON: I think the real story here is what's important and what was important was not me. […] It was the fact that we have a war in progress […] and we needed to be focused on that. […] PHILLIPS: […] Tom Barnett made it appear that you were the only man standing between the president and a war with Iran. Is that true? FALLON: Kyra, I don't believe for a second President Bush wants a war with Iran. […] I believe, in our relationship with Iran, we need to be strong and firm […], at the same time, demonstrate a willingness and openness to engage in dialogue because there are certainly things we can find in common with these people. PHILLIPS: Would you have done that? Would you have negotiated with Iran? FALLON: Well it's not my position to really negotiate with Iran. […] It's the role of the diplomats to do the negotiation. PHILLIPS: So when all the talk came about with regard to a third war, a war with Iran the president didn't have it on the table. He didn't say to you, 'Look, this is what I want to do,' and did you stand up to him and say, 'Nope. Sir, bad move.' FALLON: […] it's probably not appropriate to try to characterize it in that way*. Again don't believe for a second that the president really wants to go to war with Iran. We have a lot of things going on and there are many other ways to solve problems.* I was very open and candid in my advice. I'm not shy. I will tell people, the leaders what I think and offer my opinions on Iran and other things and continue to do that. PHILLIPS: Do you think that's what cost you your job? FALLON: No, I don't believe so at all. I think, again it's this confidence issue of: do people really believe the chain of command is working for them? Or do we have doubts and if the doubts start focusing attention away from what the priority issues oughtta be then we gotta make a change. […] PHILLIPS: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama talk about pulling troops out by next year. John McCain says, 'Nope—we gotta stay the course. What is the best course for Iraq right now? FALLON: I believe the best course is to retain the high confidence we have in General Dave Petraeus and his team out there. Dave's done an absolutely magnificent job in leading our people in that country. […] *There's a very, very important military role here in providing stability and security in this country but that's not gonna be successful as we know without lots of other people playing a hand.* The political side of things in Iraq has got to move forward; that appears to be improving. People have to have confidence in their futures. They wanna have civility. They'd like to raise their families in peace. They'd like to have a job. They'd like to look to tomorrow as better than today and it takes more than the military but the military is essential to provide stability and security. So the idea that we would suddenly just walk away from Iraq strikes me as not appropriate. We all want to bring our troops home. We want to have the majority of our people back. We want the war ended, but given where we are today, the progress that they've made—particularly in the last couple of months—I think it's very, very heartening to see what's really happened here. The right course of action is to continue to work with the Iraqis, let them take over the majority of the tasks for insuring security for the country and have our people come out on a timetable that's appropriate to the conditions that are on the ground. Highlight #3 *Velshi: McCain Wants the Tax Cuts Permanent for Everyone *(CNN 06/03/08 6:47am) ALI VELSHI: […] The only thing about this that you probably need to know is that none of the three major candidates running for president right now support getting rid of the tax cuts for everybody. In fact, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all say that the tax cuts should stay in place for low and middle class earners. The only issue separating them all is that John McCain thinks that they should stay in place for everybody […]. -- Jacob Roberts Media Analyst PMUSA (c) 208.420.3470 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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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