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Highlights
1) NBC: Nicole Wallace downplays the importance of Ayers
NICOLE WALLACE: "He's a lot more than a guy in the neighborhood and why we
can't have a calm rational discussion about who Mr. Ayers was, and then move
on to the things people really care about."
2) MSNBC: Wallace implies Obama is a danger for our fragile economy
NICOLE WALLACE: "[W]e're hoping… to have a debate about [Obama's] policies
that will decimate the last flourishing area of our economy."
3) CNN: McCain – a bona fide maverick?
FONTAINE MAVERICK: "It's very irritating, because he is not a maverick."
4) MSNBC: Tucker Bounds: Obama's Chief Strategist and I are Equally
Hyperbolic on Ayers
5) MSNBC: McCain's Econ Man Answers Questions about the New Mortgage Plan
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN: "The congress has already put on the table $700B to
help financial institutions. In an earlier bill $300B for the FHA to
guarantee mortgages. All Senator McCain is saying, 'Look, if we're gonna
commit that kind of money from the taxpayers, let's target it to the people
who need some help.'"
6) MSNBC: Issa and McCain Vote with W., Admittedly
DARRELL ISSA: "Yes, he votes like I do--often with the president."
7) MSNBC: VoteVets responds to Cindy McCain's blame the victim logic
JOHN SOLTZ: "Senator McCain carried the water for the White House in
opposition to the GI Bill this year."
8) CBS: Mary Hart sits down with John McCain
JOHN MCCAIN: "I love to hike."
9) CNN: NRA Endorsing John McCain
10) ABC: John McCain on Economy and Why Obama isn't Vetted
JOHN MCCAIN: "I'm not going to complain about the hand I'm dealt, my friend.
We're coming up with solutions, trying to give the vision and leadership for
the American people, and, I'll accept their judgment."
11) CNN: Angry McCain/Palin Audience Members
AUDIENCE MEMBER: "It's the socialists taking over our country"
No video:
1. MSNBC – MIKE BARNICLE: "[I]t's a sad thing watching the McCain
campaign progress through these last three weeks. It's a very inept attempt
to campaign for the presidency. I mean, people are very fearful in this
country. There's a lot of panic not only in Wall Street, but in average
households across the country and John McCain is not addressing it. He's
talking about some guy from 1969. It means nothing in living rooms across
this country."
2. MSNBC – SARAH SILVERMAN: "Sarah Palin […] is as off-putting and gross
as a pageant contestant, but without the desire for world peace."
Clips
Highlight #1
*Nicholle Wallace Admits Nobody Cares about Ayers* (NBC 10/09/08)
MERIDETH VIEIRA: The message from your campaign seems t be that he is too
radical for this country, is that the message you are trying to portray?
WALLACE: *Nobody cares…* the point is Barack Obama lied when he was first
asked about his association with Mr Ayers, he called him a guy I the
neighborhood. He's a lot more than a guy in the neighborhood and *why we
can't have a calm rational discussion about who Mr Ayers was, and then move
on to the things people really care about.* But here's why it matter
Meredith, if you don't tell the truth about your associations… nobody knows
when he found out that he was a domestic terrorist, no one can explain to me
why he lied and said he was just a guy in the neighborhood
[…]
Meredith what I just said is *no one sitting around the table cares about a
washed-up terrorist. What they care about is the truth*. He doesn't tell the
truth when it come to his plans for raising taxes on Americas small
businesses who are the only people in this very sick economy who are
actually adding jobs… Barack Obama would tax half of their income…
VIEIRA: Do you think there is an opportunity for us to sit down here at
Today and speak with [Governor Palin] within the next 4 weeks?
WALLACE: Well Governor Palin spent almost 1.5, 2 hrs with Charlie Gibson,
she spent about the same amount of time with Katie Couric, she spent a lot
of time talking to a lot of reporters and I think in the last month she's
spent more minutes being interviewed than Barack Obama has so Governor Palin
will continue to talk to journalists from all sorts of news organizations ,
our focus now is on some local reporters, but I'm sure you get a chance if
uh things continue you know to have this great debate in this country
VIEIRA: But will she drop by here and speak with us?
[…]
She will definitely talk to NBC news.
Highlight #2
*Nicholle Wallace - McCain admires Teddy Roos while Obama wants to stomp out
the last bright spot in our economy* (MSNBC 10/09/08)
NICHOLLE WALLACE: Well listen in the history of American politics no one has
spend more millions on negative attack ads than Barack Obama… on the issues,
this is a moment of national crisis… and I think *what the people have seen
from John McCain as Teddy Roosevelt, his hero did, in being the man in arena
*, he went to Washington, he helped, played a constructive role I finding a
solution that now we know was simply a tourniquet but we are campaigning on
our ideas. There's one bright spot in Americas' economy, very bleak economy
and that is our small businesses … *we're hoping… to have a debate about
[Obama's] policies that will decimate the last flourishing area of our
economy.*
Highlight #3
*McCain Not a Real "Maverick"?* (CNN 10/09/08 6:42am)
KIRAN CHETRY: You've heard it so often the word association comes easy: John
McCain equals maverick. Some McCain supporters consider the straight talking
Senator the original maverick but one family in Texas begs to differ.
[…]
FONTAINE MAVERICK: It's very irritating, because he is not a maverick
[…]
JEANIE MOOS: her website seeks to take back the family name… the word came
to mean an independent individual who doesn't go along with the group
[…]
Members of the Maverick family say hearing John McCain's a maverick makes
them want to shoot the TV, it's like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard
times 10.
Highlight #4
*Tucker Bounds Says He and Obama's Chief Strategist are Equally Hyperbolic
on Ayers* (MSNBC 10/09/08 1:00pm)
ANDREA MITCHELL: Tucker, both Obamas have said that this [Ayers business] is
much ado about nothing. What is your main point here? What are you trying to
do? What are you trying to allege about Barack Obama?
TUCKER BOUNDS: Well our main point is exactly as you just mentioned it,
Andrea. It's [that] they've said it's much ado about nothing when actually
it's much ado about quite something. [...] Barack Obama is willing to say
one thing then completely misrepresent something that's true about himself;
just like he does when he tells voters that he hasn't voted in support of
higher taxes for people that make just $42k a year or that he's gonna
provide a middle-class tax cut.
We can't take an honest assessment of what he's saying because he so often
misrepresents what's actually true.
[...]
MITCHELL: Tucker, there is no question that there has been an exaggeration
in a lot of the things in a lot of the things that Sarah Palin has said
about the relationship [between Obama and Ayers]. Why do that? What are you
trying to suggest? Are you trying to make Barack Obama seem to be some sort
of terrorist himself? This man has been running for president for, at least,
two years and has been vetted through, you know, 22 primary debates, already
two debates in the general election. What's your point?
BOUNDS: Well, I think there are a couple different points here, Andrea. I
think that the presidential election process is the ultimate vetting process
for the American people to determine what type of leadership they want in
the White House and I think most Americans who are sitting at home, watching
these television sets know that they don't have any friends that they've
gone to their living rooms and helped with their career that are also--
MITCHELL: Even calling him a friend, Tucker [...] is an overstatement
according to all the fact-checking that we've been able to do.
BOUNDS: Andrea, it's the same overstatement that his chief strategist said
when he said that the Ayers and Barack Obama are certainly friendly. I don't
know what else we could describe it as as not friends if they're not
certainly friendly. They've served on the same boards and he invited him
over to his home to help him launch his political career. I wish I had
friends so nice.
[...]
MITCHELL: The [mortgage] plan that was first put forward by John McCain on
Tuesday night now has been changed so that the lenders would not have to
take a haircut, that they would be reimbursed for the full value--the stated
value of these mortgages or original value of these mortgages. Isn't this
rewarding some really bad lenders with more taxpayer money?
[...]
BOUNDS: What we think American voters will recognize is that when you have
alloted $700B to help rescue this economy that prioritizing, at least, half
of it to go directly to homeowners is a better idea than allowing most of it
to go to Wall St. [...].
MITCHELL: Why structure so the lenders get the benefit and have the
taxpayers paying, in this case. Why not make the lenders, if they are bad
lenders, and they're not in crisis, why not force them to take some share of
this burden?
BOUNDS: Well, there's an unfortunate by-product of a mortgage, which is you
have to go buy it from a lender and so, if you are homeowner that has a
mortgage and you would like to have a fixed rate because you've been backed
into a predatory place where you cannot afford your mortgage payment, John
McCain has said, 'The rescue plan that taxpayers are paying for, that Barack
Obama has supported, that Joe Biden has supported should go to homeowners so
they can get a fixed rate loan and not to Wall St. There is no way to
re-finance the loan without dealing with the financial institutions that
give the loan. [...]
Highlight #5
*McCain's Econ Man Answers Questions about the New Mortgage Plan* (MSNBC
10/09/08 3:33pm)
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN: [McCain's mortgage plan is] not costing the taxpayers
more money. The congress has already put on the table $700B to help
financial institutions. In an earlier bill $300B for the FHA to guarantee
mortgages. All Senator McCain is saying, 'Look, if we're gonna commit that
kind of money from the taxpayers, let's target it to the people who need
some help [...].'
NORA O'DONNELL: [H]ow can you claim that this kind of plan has absolutely no
price tag? What you're proposing is that the government absorb the full cost
of renegotiating essentially these mortgages so that a borrower doesn't end
up losing their home. Somebody's gotta pay for it.
HOLTZ-EAKIN: We've already committed to paying. [...]
O'DONNELL: [W]ho are you talking about, 'We've already committed to spending
the money'? Who?
HOLTZ-EAKIN: The Congress of the United States passed, the president signed
a bailout bill with $700B in it. [...]
Highlight #6
*Issa and McCain Vote with W., Admittedly* (MSNBC 10/09/08 6:17pm)
DARRELL ISSA: Yes, he votes like I do--often with the president.
Highlight #7
*Soltz Responds to McCain's Blame-the-Victim Logic* (MSNBC 10/09/08 8:36pm)
JOHN SOLTZ: [Cindy McCain's remarks] set the debate back 30 years. We fought
so hard for people to accept PTSD as an illness where one in three people
are having problems coming home and it just shows that she doesn't really
understand the issue at hand and that's a big concern if she becomes the
first lady. […] Senator McCain carried the water for the White House in
opposition to the GI Bill this year. He has not led on veteran's issues in
the last four or six years since these vets have come home. He voted against
body armor not once but twice in 2003 when there were shortages in Iraq.
Highlight #8
*Mary Hart Sits Down with John McCain *(CBS 10/09/08 7:51pm)
JOHN MCCAIN: I love to hike.
Highlight #9
*NRA Endorsing John McCain* (CNN 10/09/08 4:59pm)
JOHN ROBERTS: The National Rifle Association is officially endorsing
Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain. NRA leaders plan stop today
in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, and Nevada to make the announcement. The
endorsement comes despite some friction between the gun rights lobby and
John McCain over campaign finance restrictions and gun show rules. The NRA
says, despite those differences, the two agree on many issues that are
important to the group. [CNN, The Situation Room, 10/09/08]
Highlight #10
*John McCain on the Economy and Why Obama isn't Vetted* (ABC 10/09/08
7:17pm)
JOHN MCCAIN: I think that in my opening comments, I made a very strong case
that we 're in a crisis of unprecedented proportions. And that's why I
recommended strongly that we go out and have the treasury buy up these bad
mortgages. So, and arrange it as they did during the Depression. Buy up
these mortgages, let people have them at affordable payment levels, and put
a floor on this continuing plummeting of housing prob- of home prices.
CHARLES GIBSON: Let me talk about that plan. 300 billion dollars. New
money? Or part of the 700 billion?
MCCAIN: Part of the 700 million, new money if necessary. Look, in one day
they wiped out 1.2 trillion, when it dropped 700 points. And I'm not
throwing this money around lightly. But if the housing values continue to
go down, there's no floor to this. There's no turnaround here.
GIBSON: Some of the reaction to your plan, though, 300 billion to buy up
mortgages. People say, look, I'm paying my mortgage. I didn't overspend. I
didn't take a house that I couldn't afford. I'm paying my mortgage. Why
are you going to help them, and do nothing for me?
MCCAIN: Because if your neighbor's house- home value continues to decline,
so is yours. Your life savings. And I appreciate that you were able to
make your payments and the struggles that you had, but if your neighbor's
home continues to plummet in value and sits empty, then it's going to effect
your home as well, so we're doing this for you as well.
GIBSON: And your going to just discount his mortgage? And I'm still going to
have to pay my 6 or 7%?
MCCAIN: Look. This is a crisis of unprecedented proportions. In many
ways, it's the same situation we faced in the Great Depression.
GIBSON: We've talked to a lot of folks as we've taken this bus around the
battleground states in the Midwest. Somebody said to us, I don't see the
passion, and I don't see the anger in either one of these guys.
MCCAIN: Well, I've never been accused of a lack of passion. But the point
is, they also want firm, solid, measured, mature leadership. Franklin
Delanor Roosevelt didn't go on the Radio and start yelling. He assured the
American people, right now the American people need seasoned and experienced
leadership. That's what I offer.
GIBSON: One of the women the other night asking questions asked, "Why
should we trust either one of you guys with our money? A simple question. But
I thought it was rather profound in that it expresses a basic lack of faith
in any institution in this country.
MCCAIN: Americans' faith and confidence is shaken. I saw a poll where 5%
of the American people think that they are- that the country's on the right
track. They must be the short sellers. I haven't met anyone else. Look,
the American people are, are- I don't like to use the word fear, because
Americans by nature know we can overcome in challenge. But they're very
badly shaken out there.
GIBSON: So is this almost monolithic focus on the economy in the news, and
in people's minds in recent weeks-
MCCAIN: Fully understandable.
GIBSON: -hurt your campaign?
MCCAIN: Oh, I don't know Charlie. I think by offering wise solutions and
providing mature leadership that it'll […] on my behalf, in my favor. But
look, this is a tough campaign. I'm the underdog.
GIBSON: But you were sorta hummin along there in the polls for a while, and
then this issue sort of pervaded everything, and it's not-
MCCAIN: I'm not going to complain about the hand I'm dealt, my friend. We're
coming up with solutions, trying to give the vision and leadership for the
American people, and, I'll accept their judgment.
GIBSON: Why then, in recent days, have you focused so in what you've had to
say on Senator Obama's character? You've talked about the fact that we don't
know him, that he's come out of nowhere, that he's not an open book, etc.
MCCAIN: Well, I'm not sure that's character. What I think it is, is does
he have the experience and knowledge and judgment and has he made the right
decisions? And has he told , been candid with the American people? And I
think that's important.
GIBSON: You don't think he's been thoroughly vetted, having gone through
all the primaries and all the campaigning, running for president as long as
you- two years?
MCCAIN: Actually I don't. In fact, Senator Clinton in their debates said
that the American people didn't know enough about him, including his
relationship with Mr. Ayers. That's what she said. And I agree with that. He
launched his political career in his living room- in Mr. Ayers' living room.
And I don't care about two washed up, old terrorists that are unrepentant
about trying to destroy America. But I do care, Americans should care about
his relationship with him, and whether he's being truthful and candid about
it.
GIBSON: Do you think his character or lack of candor disqualifies him to be
President of the United States?
MCCAIN: I'll leave that up to the American people. But I have every right
to insist that he be candid and truthful with the American people. And he
needs to be asked about it. And he needs be forthcoming.
GIBSON: You didn't raise that […] in the debate the other night, and I
asked Senator Obama about that yesterday. He said, yeah I'm surprised that
John didn't say that to my face.
MCCAIN: Oh, I'd be glad to- again, two things I've never been accused of
lacking. And one is passion and the other is courage. I mean, I can accept
a lot of the other criticisms. It didn't come up in the flow of the
conversation.
GIBSON: You're confident that this should be the focus in the last days of
the campaign?
MCCAIN: Oh, I think it's something that needs to be examined. Just as
Senator Clinton said it should be examined during their primary. And it
never was.
Highlight #11
*Audience Members at McCain/Palin Event Angry: "It's the socialists taking
over our country" *(CNN 10/09/08 4:28pm)
AUDIENCE MEMBER: "I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's gonna surprise ya
is it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country."
ED HENRY: "At a dramatic town hall in Wisconsin, John McCain was confronted
by Republican voters wondering how he can be losing to Barack Obama. And
urging McCain to get tougher with his opponent."
AUDIENCE MEMBER: "And we're all wondering, why that Obama is where he's at.
How he got here. I mean everybody in this room is stunned that we're in
this position."
HENRY: "The questioner angrily suggested that the media is giving Obama a
pass on questions about his ties to former-terrorist, Bill Ayers, sparking
wild applause from the raucous crowd."
JOHN MCCAIN: "The point, Senator Obama said he was just a guy in the
neighborhood. We know that's not true. We need to know the full extent of
the relationship because of whether Senator Obama is telling the truth to
the American people or not. "
[…]
SARAH PALIN: "I am like you, and I wonder too when will the questions be
asked, and when will we get the answers?"
HENRY: "But another voter pointedly urged McCain to stand up to Obama."
AUDIENCE MEMBER: "It is absolutely vital that you take it to Obama, that
you hit him where it hits, as a softball. We have the Reverend Wright, we
have Flager, we have all of these shady characters that have surrounded him.
I am begging you, sir. I am begging you. Take it to him. [John McCain
hugs audience member]"
--
Jacob Roberts
PAO
208.420.3470 (c)
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