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Main Topics: Saddleback Forum, Georgia, Veterans
*Summary of Shift: *The revelation that McCain was not in the so-called
'cone of silence,' a room promised by Pastor Rick Warren to shield the
candidates from hearing their opponent's questions and answers during the
forum Saturday, ruled the political coverage today. McCain campaign manager
Rick Davis attempted to use the controversy as fodder to attack NBC, saying
the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race."
While Davis made the charge because Andrea Mitchell mentioned the Obama
camp's concerns relating to this issue Sunday, most networks today covered
the story on its merits of McCain possibly cheating, rather than whether NBC
is biased. The Georgia-Russia conflict continues to be in the news, with
some coverage of McCain's pro-Georgia remarks in Florida this morning. The
reporting on the announcement of Pakistan President Musharraf's upcoming
resignation has not yet included commentary on McCain's outspoken support
for the leader. As the nominating conventions near, there is increasing
running mate speculation on every network Non-political news is centered
on the tropical storm hitting Florida. Other stories include the daily
Michael Phelps puff piece, a flying car invention, a dam collapsing in
Arizona, and a baby bear being rescued in California.
*Highlights: *
Cone of Silence Controversy
1.FNC: Fox Pundits dismiss accusations of McCain's knowledge of questions
Georgia Russia conflict
2. FNC: Bob Barr Says McCain Foreign Policy Stance Towards Georgia is
Simplistic, Like Bush's
3. FNC: Ralph Reed dismisses absence from McCain fundraiser; discussion of
women voters and McCain
4. MSNBC: Schuster Reveals McCain had Chance to Kill Bear DNA Bill
5. MSNBC: Christian Freeland Discusses Benefits of Georgian Conflict for
McCain Campaign
6.MSNBC: Olbermann on McCain's Eagerness to get Iraq
7. MSNBC: Olbermann Discusses McCain's Betrayal of Vets
*Highlights, No YouTube:*
1. CNN: McCain Energy Policy of Drilling Helping in Colorado, Polls Show
2. CNN: LOU DOBBS: Even though this was an evangelical forum, that
McCain's appeal was broader than that as a result of that forum?
TONY PERKINS: I would say that's true
*Clips:*
*Highlight #1*
*Bob Barr Attacks McCain's Georgia Policy As 'Simplistic', Like Bush* (FNC
08/18/08 4:30pm)
NEIL CAVUTO: So you find Senator McCain's approach to this bad, why?
BOB BARR: Well it's very simplistic. Either that or he really doesn't have a
firm grasp on the geopolitics and ethnic and demographic problems in that
part of the world. He seems to feel similar to what George Bush felt a
number of years ago, that Putin could be trusted because he had looked into
his eyes and saw a man he could trust. S*enator McCain seems to be falling
into that same simplistic mode if you meet somebody and know them, they're
trustworthy and we're their friend and you need to support them.* We're not
all Georgians simply because there is a very serious problem and we ought to
be concerned about and we ought to be monitoring very carefully between
Russia and Georgia does not be any stretch of the imagination mean that we
ought to becoming involved and that clearly seems to be direction that both
this administration and Senator McCain are going. […]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bcWBQJ7INQ>
*Highlight #2*
*Ralph Reed Dismisses Absence From McCain Fundraiser; Discussion Of McCain
And Women Voters* (FNC 08/18/08 5:47pm)
ED HILL: The Obama camp is claiming that you were scratched from the McCain
fundraiser tonight. Is that accurate?
RALPH REED: No, not true. I'm in Washington – had meetings that had been
scheduled for quite some time. I'm strongly supporting Senator McCain, proud
to do so for his record for lower taxes, stronger families, and a 26 prolife
voting record in Congress.
HILL: Okay let's go off that. Dee Dee I want to ask you, why does it,
according to the latest Pew poll that I took a look at, say that John McCain
is having such a tough time getting women to say they'll vote for him.
DEE DEE MYERS: He is having a tough time getting women to say they'll vote
for him, and I think he'll have a tough time getting them to actually vote
for him come November. Because he's simply-two reasons, *he's wrong on a lot
of issues that women care about, from the issue of choice, to issues like
the environment, to healthcare*- he doesn't have a health care plan that
seems to really address women's health care concerns and I think that as
women are watching these two candidates, *Senator McCain becomes really
animated and most alive when he's talking about military policy, things like
that.* It's not that that's the only thing that he maybe- have a plan for,
but he only seems to really care about foreign policy, military policy. It's
not that women don't care about those things, but they don't see that same
passion when he's talking about what he's going to do to improve the
economy. I think a lot of women feel that they're on the edge as the
economy is sort of bordering on recession. […]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOds3s8y40>
*Highlight #3*
*Fox News Pundits Discuss Cone of Silence-gate; Tout McCain's Performance In
Civil Forum* (FNC 08/18/08 6:46pm)
BILL KRISTOL: As Andrea Mitchell says, these charges or suggestions are
being made by the Obama campaign because they know their man lost the
evening. They didn't strike them that things can go on they have to pretend
that some how McCain must have cheated to have won and I think that says
something perhaps about the Obama campaign's excessive regard for their man
and their disdain for Senator McCain. McCain won the evening, but look if
they want to say that this is because McCain somehow got access to these
questions, as if that would have mattered any way, not that he did
apparently, McCain should say tomorrow fine let's do it again. I'm serious
he should say let's have another forum the next day. We can have it on the
same topic, we can have it on Georgia and Russia, we can have it on Iraq,
and you know what? I'll go first. I'll go first so Senator Obama can see the
questions and the answers. I think the Obama campaign has set itself up for
looking like whiners and I hope Senator McCain challenges Obama to have
another forum tomorrow.
[…]
JEFF BIRNBAUM: […] Just in quick defense of Andrea Mitchell for just one
quick second, she didn't say, she did not, she was not – *did not report
that McCain was not in the cone of silence. *
BRET BAIER: No but the Obama people were-
BIRNBAUM: So she, the attack by the McCain campaign on NBC I think had
something to do with something else. Maybe some problems they've been having
or an eagerness to call attention to this particular forum that McCain
clearly won […]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g6ymXaWuTc>
*Highlight #4*
*Schuster Slams McCain's Bear DNA Line (MSNBC 08/18/08 7:05pm)*
DAVID SCHUSTER: At the Saddleback church forum on Saturday, one of John
McCain's loudest applause lines came when he slammed pork barrel spending
and one project in particular.
JOHN MCCAIN: We spent money in ways that mortgaged our kids' futures. My
friends, *we spent three million dollars of your money to study the DNA of
bears in Montana*. I don't know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal
issue. But the point is, it was three million of your money. It was your
money.
SCHUSTER: Your money. That's a pretty good line. The problem is, it
didn't keep John from voting in favor of the project as part of a larger
spending bill. Yes. Back in 2003, McCain could have tried to block the
project through an amendment or other procedural means, but he didn't. And
*McCain ultimately voted for the spending bill with the bear DNA study
funding in tact. *
*Highlight #5*
*Schuster on McCain's Pro-War Foreign Policy Stance* (MSNBC 08/18/08 7:05pm)
SCHUSTER: I want to play a sound bite that gives us a sort of roadmap as to
the strategic battlefield that John McCain wants right now. It's about
foreign policy and belittling Barack Obama. […]
JOHN MCCAIN: Behind all these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the
ambition to be president. What's less apparent is the judgment to be
commander and chief. And in matters of national security, good judgment
will be at a premium in the term of the next president, as we were all
reminded ten days ago by the events in the nation of Georgia.
SCHUSTER: Christian, as the tensions in Russia ratchet up and go the other
way, doesn't that help John McCain?
CHRISTIAN FREELAND: Absolutely. *I think the Georgia crisis has been very,
very good for John McCain.* You know, for one thing, he was right. I think
the Georgia crisis shows that McCain's hawkish line on Russia and Putin,
which is not a new thing. He hasn't flip-flopped here. He's been very
consistent- has turned out to be presient. And I think because he had that
view […] he was faster than anyone, including the White House off the
mark. So I think he's done well on the issue, and I think that's given him
some confidence. […]
[…]
MICHAEL CROWLY: […] *It's kind of amazing the gall of John McCain to be
organizing his campaign around foreign policy judgment, when he supported
this war that really turned out to be a disaster and incredibly unpopular
with the American public. * […]
SCHUSTER: And the other thing is that John McCain was certainly far out in
the front in terms of even President Bush when this first erupted, and there
are also all those questions about John McCain's foreign policy adviser and
the lobbying that he has done on behalf of Georgia, and whether there's some
sort of conflict in interest there.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGl5Qj_uFrc>
*Highlight #6*
*Olbermann on McCain's Eagerness on Iraq* (MSNBC 08/18/08 8:13pm)
KEITH OLBERMANN: At the same in the campaign the presumptive republican
presidential nominee ripped the presumptive democratic presidential nominee,
for bad judgment about Iraq, the New York Times reminded the nation that
John *McCain's immediate response to 9/11 was to threaten Iraq and Saddam
Hussein. Within hours of the attack, Senator McCain reciting a laundry list
of other countries that supported terrorism, including Iraq, and a month
later Senator McCain warning Iraq is the first country. * By January 2002,
telling sailors and airman onboard the deck an aircraft carrier, 'next up,
Baghdad'. Yet today, Senator McCain criticizing his opponent's record on
Iraq, ratcheting up his rhetoric in an address to the convention of Veterans
of Foreign Wars, criticizing Obama's shifting positions on the troop surge
in Iraq.
JOHN MCCAIN: Senator Obama still can't quite bring himself to admit his own
failure in judgment. Nor, has he been willing to hee the guidance of
General Patreus, one of the great leaders in military history, or to listen
to our troops on the ground when they say, as they have said to me on my
trip to Iraq, 'let us win, just let us win'. In short, both candidates in
this election pledged to end this war, and bring our troops home. *The
great difference is that I intend to win it first." *
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Ujq8xQ3os>
*Highlight #7*
*Olbermann on McCain's Lack of Support for Veterans* (MSNBC 08/18/08 8:13pm)
KEITH OLBERMANN: Though victory in Iraq is finally in sight, you told the
VFW today, Senator McCain, a great deal still depends on the decisions and
good judgment of the next president. The hard-won gains by our troops hang
in the balance. The lasting advantage of a peaceful and democratic ally in
the heart of the Middle East could still be squandered by hasty withdrawal,
and arbitrary timelines. […] *Senator McCain, on the 22nd of May, 2003 you
said of Iraq, on the Senate floor "We won a massive victory in a few weeks,
and we did so with very limited loss of American and allied lives. We were
able to end aggression with minimum overall loss of life, and we were even
able to greatly reduce the civilian casualties of Afghani and Iraqi
citizens."*
Senator, you declared victory in Iraq nearly five years and three months
ago. Today you say, "*Victory in Iraq is finally in sight". The victory
you already proclaimed five years ago? * […] In June of 2003, with even Fox
News noting, 'Many argue that the conflict in Iraq isn't over. ' You
answered, "Well, then why was there a banner that said 'Mission
Accomplished' on the aircraft carrier? Look the 'I have said a long time
that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long difficult process, but the
conflict' the major conflict is over, the regime change has been
accomplished, and it's very appropriate.'
The senator also foolishly invoked his opponent in that speech today. He
told the convention today, ' I suppose from my opponents' vantage point,
veterans' concerns are just one more issue to be spun or worked to
advantage. This would explain why he has also taken liberties with my
position on the GI Bill…. As a political proposition it would have been much
easier for me to have just signed on to what I considered flawed
legislation. But the people of Arizona, and of all America, expect more
from their representatives than that, and instead I sough a better bill. I'm
proud to say that the result is a law that better serves our military,
better serves military families, and better serves the interests of our
country.
Senator McCain spoke out against that very bill last May. *On the asinine
premise that the awards to our heroes in it were so good, that it did not
encourage them to stay in the service. *[…] Moreover, Senator McCain *missed
10 of the 14 votes on Iraq u*p to middle of last year, this year he has
missed them all. Including one just to honor the sacrifice of the fallen.
He has voted to *table or oppose 20 million dollars for veterans' healthcare
facilities, 322 million dollars for safety equipment for our troops in Iraq,
430 million dollars for veterans outpatient care, 1 billion dollars in new
equipment for the national guard, and in separate votes 1billion 500 million
dollars in additional veterans medical care to be created by closing tax
loopholes. * <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDORvQQoavk>
--
Lisa L. Reed
Progressive Accountability Office
601.434.2986
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Lisa L. Reed
Progressive Accountability Office
601.434.2986
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