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*Media Monitoring Report
**
Highlights:***
1. MSNBC: Nicholle Wallace Dismisses the Campaign Infighting Story, Says
McCain has been Right about Every Major Foreign Policy
WALLACE: [this rogue Palin vs campaign handlers infighting story] is not
something that anyone… gives one single hoot about… [Sarah Palin] and John
McCain are two peas in a pod when it comes to bucking… political convention
2. MSNBC: Roger Simon Says Palin Will "Absolutely" Run for President in
2012
SIMON: She is absolutely running for 2012. She knows she's not going to be
elected vice president this year. In 2012 all the little things like the
clothing and taking her kids on airplanes and even the abuse of power
accusations will be old news.
3. MSNBC: Pawlenty Warns of "Bad Idea Train" if Voters Allow Democrats
to Control Both the White House and Congress
PAWLENTY: if you put Barack Obama in the White House with the Democrats
controlling the congress you will have an unstoppable train of bad ideas
rolling down the track. There'll be nobody there to bring it back to center,
nobody there to balance it off and bring it to the mainstream.
4. FNC: Brian Jones Deflects Questions about McCain's "Photo Op" this
Morning
5. MSNBC: Tucker Bounds Dismisses the Failing Grade Factcheck.org Gave
to Their Recent Tax Hike Ad, Also Claims if the Dems Don't Raise Taxes They
are "Just a Bunch of Lying Politicians"
BOUNDS: All they are doing is saying, well when they voted to prioritize
this budget spending, presumably they go forward with it, otherwise they are
all just a bunch of lying politicians…
6. FNC: Pawlenty Discounts Obama's Tax Plan Based on "Rumors"
PAWLENTY: For example, there's rumors that his penalty or fine on employers
who don't provide healthcare will be 6% of payroll- so if you have somebody
who is making a $40,000 a year job, that doesn't include all the other tax
increases that he would impose on business and employers across the country
and keep in mind he wants to increase income taxes as well, and 70% of small
businesses in this country pay the proceeds on their small businesses on
their individual returns
*Clips*
*Highlight #1*
*Nicholle Wallace Dismisses the Campaign Infighting Story, Says McCain has
been Right about Every Major Foreign Policy *(MSNBC 10/27/08 06:30pm)
NICHOLLE WALLACE: There are a lot of people who have seen these candidates
over the last two year really, who have strong opinions but there is a big
chunk of the American public who's tuning in for these final days to make a
final decision… on the one side you have Obama who seems to be running as
redistributor of wealth in chief. On the other side you have John McCain
who's running on a platform of growing the economy, of rising tide lifts all
boats… the other thing that Joe Biden really brought into sharp focus for
all of us is his belief that Barack Obama would be tested… I think we're
having a closing argument about experience and about growth versus
redistribution of wealth that will set up John McCain very well going into
the final days and hours of this race.
[…]
[this rogue Palin vs campaign handlers infighting story] is not something
that anyone… gives one single hoot about… this is Washington clamoring and
clanging… the notion that Sarah Palin asserting herself is something that we
don't' you know, celebrate and embrace and welcome. She and John McCain are
two peas in a pod when it comes to bucking… political convention and I think
that's what people are looking for in Washington.
[…]
No one cares at all about campaign staff… I think that people are looking
for change and I think the two people best equipped to shaking things up or
turning Washington upside down are John McCain and Sarah Palin.
[…]
At the top [of our opponents ticket] you have the most liberal person ever
to be nominated by the Democratic party and you have a running mate who is
guaranteeing America… that that president… if he should win will be tested
by the world. And that is certainly on the menu if someone wants their
wealth to be redistributed , they believe success should be taken from those
who achieve the American dream and hand it out to others – that is on the
menu.
[…]
Even [Obama's tax cut for 95% of Americans] has been revealed to be, to be
not exactly what Barack Obama describes it as. To say you're going to give
95% of Americans tax relief, only 60% of those people pay taxes so for 40%
of the public it's a redistribution of success… of wealth. But again on the
other side,, you have John McCain, one of the most experienced voices and
leaders in our nation's foreign policy, he was right the way to win the war
in Iraq, he's been right about every major foreign policy… he's reached
across the isle and he has led… Sarah Palin has reform in her DNA, she is
someone who has taken on the entrenched interests… do [the people] want the
least experienced president in America's history at a time of extraordinary
challenge.
[…]
I disagree that there can't be vigorous and robust debate [in campaigns]
that sometimes spills out into the public for someone to be successful and
certainly for someone to win… when it's all over, we are meaningless, people
choose, they can see through all this, they see through the ads, in Obama's
case they see through 10 times the ads that we've have on the air. People
see through all that and they choose a leader.
[…]
GREGORY: Has Senator McCain thought at all about what he might do if he does
not prevail in this campaign, to work with Senator Obama in an Obama
administration?
WALLACE: Well look, I don't think that anyone contemplates anything other
than a victory on election day but if you look back at the record it is John
McCain who has reached across the isle.
*Highlight #2*
*Roger Simon Says Palin Will "Absolutely" Run for President in 2012* (MSNBC
10/27/08 05:23pm)
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Is [Palin] running for 2012 already?
ROGER SIMON: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: That's what I think.
SIMON: She is absolutely running for 2012. She knows she's not going to be
elected vice president this year. In 2012 all the little things like the
clothing and taking her kids on airplanes and even the abuse of power
accusations will be old news.
*
*
*Highlight #3*
*Pawlenty Warns of "Bad Idea Train" if Voters Allow Democrats to Control
Both the White House and Congress *(MSNBC 10/27/08 06:16pm)
DAVID GREGORY: Why [are prominent Republicans supporting Obama]?
TIM PAWLENTY: Well, I think there's a group of who perhaps are
disenfranchised with what they perceive to be the Republican party or brand,
David. But I think the thing to look at is, if you put Barack Obama in the
White House with the Democrats controlling the congress you will have an
unstoppable train of bad ideas rolling down the track. There'll be nobody
there to bring it back to center, nobody there to balance it off and bring
it to the mainstream. And for those moderate or centrist Republicans it'd be
very good to have John McCain there to bring what's going to be a very
leftist congress if Barack Obama is elected, a rubber stamp for a leftist
congress, to bring it back to center, to bring it back to the mainstream.
GREGORY: Governor what disqualifies Senator Obama from being president in
your mind?
PAWLENTY: Well, I think it just goes to the issue of the differences of the
issue positions and policy positions David. He said the other day when asked
– do you want to retract the statement about Joe the plumber and the
redistribution of wealth, he said no he wants to keep that so he's proposed
tot raise taxes on capital gains, on income, on depreciation, on dividends,
on payroll, a fine or penalty on healthcare and on down the list. What
thinking economist or person would say it's a good idea to have those kind
of tax increases when we're in a recession. And I think if you look at most
people's concern, it's their job and those would be job-killing initiatives.
So those are just bad ideas, it's not that Senator Obama is somehow, you
know, a bad person or unpatriotic, that's not the case. The case is just he
has a very different view of these policy matters than Senator McCain does
[…]
It's not a matter of him being ineligible or disqualified, it's just a very
different view of the world.
GREGORY: What's it going to take for a McCain comeback to become a reality?
PAWLENTY: I think he's gonna have to emphasize basically three things.
Number one you don't want a runaway train of all Democrats running the whole
country, that's not balance, that's not mainstream. Number two, you don't
wanna be raising taxes in a recession, that's obvious, or anytime. And
number three, Senator McCain's got the requisite experience and judgment to
be the leader of the free world
*Highlight #4*
*Brian Jones Deflects Questions about McCain's "Photo Op" this Morning* (FNC
10/27/08 12:40pm)
JANE SKINNER: [...] We saw this morning the Senator out with this economic
team [...] we saw Mitt Romney, Jack Kent, Meg Whitman from Ebay is just to
his right there. Is there a sense that he's gotten hammered over this
economic issue for so many weeks now, that this lineup here, it's pretty
impressive. It's almost- too late? Why didn't he roll these guys out [...]
weeks ago?
BRIAN JONES: Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman, other members of this team have been
speaking on behalf of John McCain throughout this election, since he won the
nomination.
SKINNER: [...] there really hasn't been a coordinated effort. I mean that's
a great photo op to see there, for a guy that's been being hammered for
weeks on this issue.
JONES: He's been hammered on it, but at the same time I think there's real
distinction in this election. That's what we've been talking about. Elections
are about choices. [...]
*Highlight #5*
*Tucker Bounds Dismisses the Failing Grade Factcheck.org Gave to Their
Recent Tax Hike Ad, Also Claims if the Dems Don't Raise Taxes They are "Just
a Bunch of Lying Politicians"* (MSNBC 10/27/08 11:20am)
DAVID SHUSTER: The McCain campaign and the RNC are running radio ads in
Virginia and Florida that say that if the Democrats had their way they would
raise taxes on families making as little as $42,000 a year. Factcheck.org
says that is completely false so why are you still running the ad?
TUCKER BOUNDS: Well because I think you are citing a fact check that is not
really relevant to that ad because if you look at the charge they are making
is if they, democrats controlled congress and democrats controlled the white
house with Barack Obama they would then pursue the spending initiatives that
they voted to approve in their budget resolution which calls for a repeal of
the Bush tax cuts which calls for trillions of dollars of new spending for
pet projects. All they are doing is saying, well when they voted to
prioritize this budget spending, presumably they go forward with it,
otherwise they are all just a bunch of lying politicians…
SHUSTER: But Tucker even if they go forward with it, I mean the point is yes
there would be, if you're a single taxpayer making $42,000 yes you would see
your taxes rise by about $15 dollars. But in order to have your taxes rise
as a family you have to be making over $90,000 under what the Democrats have
proposed. So when the ad says that families, families making $42,000 would
see their taxes rise that's not accurate, is it?
BOUNDS: No David, I think it's completely accurate and reasonable. I think
most American voters would agree it's completely reasonable that when you
just spent a trillion dollars for a rescue plan, now you are proposing
another three hundred billion dollars for an economic "stimulus" plan, which
is basically a handout giveaway again on top of the stimulus package that
was already provided earlier in the year. And you go forward with Barack
Obama's plan for a trillion dollars in new spending, on top of the other
trillion and the other 300 billion, how is there not going to be tax
increases on hardworking American's? In fact the answer is there will be
tax increases on hardworking American's. Barack Obama won't even admit that
he is not going to raise your taxes because he is going to raise your taxes.
SHUSTER: Tucker if it is so important to essentially pay for these new
programs, how can then John McCain and the Republicans didn't institute new
taxes to spend on the Iraq war. All of that money is essentially being
added to the budget and nobody is paying for it, except for future
generations. If the argument that you are making about Barack Obama is that
by necessity he would have to raise taxes, couldn't the argument then have
been made that John McCain was irresponsible by not raising taxes to pay for
the war?
BOUNDS: Absolutely not David, because the reason we are competitive in this
race is because John McCain is a different type of Republican. He is the
only one who has been in the United States Senate saying we are, the
spending is out of control, the budgets are out of control. We need to have
the spending mechanisms that are held back so that the American taxpayer can
keep more of their money and spend it in the economy so we can grow jobs. …
So I reject the idea that Barack Obama is some kind of tax cutter because
you cannot be a tax cutter if you are going to double down on Bush's failed
policies of 40% government growth over the course of the last 8 years. It's
disastrous…
*Highlight #6 *
*Pawlenty Discounts Obama's Tax Plan Based on "Rumors"* (FNC 10/27/08
5:28pm)
GOV. TIM PAWLENTY: [...] In addition to (Barack Obama's) 2001 comments which
are being reported today, when he was asked the other day about his Joe the
Plumber comments, whether he wanted to modify them or retract them, he said
no he did not. So clearly this is his established world view- that it's okay
to take a redistribute wealth- he wants to raise income taxes, he wants to
raise captial gains taxes, he wants to raise dividends taxes, he wants to
raise payroll taxes, he wants to fine people- employers who dont offer
healthcare- a penalty or a fine, on the list, this is going to be the
biggest anti-job set of proposals in the modern history of the country. He's
gonna throw the American taxpayer and small business across the country into
a quicksandpit of tax increases.
MEGYN KELLY:[...]Barack Obama has pointed out many times, he's just going to
reduce the, or change the tax rates to what they were under Bill Clinton,
and he always points out, things were pretty good under Bill Clinton, so
what's everybody complaining about?
PAWLENTY: Well first of all it's the year 2008 and a lot has happened in the
last 15 or 20 years. We now live in a hypercompetitive global economy, where
the click of a mouse- capital can be invested or deployed almost anywhere
around the world. You have to be competitive as a state and as a nation- and
our tax rates, both on businesses and on individuals, are relatively
hig[...]And the last thing we need- there is no reasonable economist, or no
thoughtful person who looks at these issues, who thinks it's a good idea to
be raising taxes when we're in or near a recession.
KELLY: [...]THe rich are gonna pay a little bit more and the middle class
are going to pay a significant amount less- what's wrong with that?
PAWLENTY: Well that's the classic class warfare argument, Megyn, but the
problem with that is this- most people, the number one ticket or pathway to
stability or security economically is their job. And the sum total of Barack
Obama's proposals are going to deter job growth in this country or put at
risk current jobs in this country and it's gonna make things worse, not
better,it's not about class warfares-what are those things that are going to
provide and incentivize jobs and there is no indication that small business
owners are feeling that Barack Obama's proposals wouldn't hurt them, they
are saying they will hurt us and they will discourage job growth in this
country.
KELLY[...]Small businesses[...]may get taxed more under Barack Obama, but if
they create new jobs they will get credits for those new jobs[...]
PAWLENTY: Well, that's a $3,000 credit, Megyn- that doesn't begin to
overcome even one thing that's rumored. For example, there's rumors that his
penalty or fine on employers who don't provide healthcare will be 6% of
payroll- so if you have somebody who is making a $40,000 a year job, that
doesn't include all the other tax increases that he would impose on business
and employers across the country and keep in mind he wants to increase
income taxes as well, and 70% of small businesses in this country pay the
proceeds on their small businesses on their individual returns.
[...]
PAWLENTY: I think it is fair to say (Obama) wants to cap the American dream.
at least as expressed by his tax policies, Megyn, but keep in mind if Barack
Obama's policies go through, nearly 50% of income tax payers, or people in
the country, will pay no income tax, and maybe even more broadly, no federal
tax at all, so you're going to get to a point in the country where you've
got more people riding in the wagon than pulling the wagon. That's not a
good future for our country.
[..]
PAWLENTY: (The 2001 tape is important) because it re-inforces what (Barack
Obama) said to Joe the Plumber. It is another installment or another insight
into Barack Obama's thinking, his philosophy on economic matters, and I
think for a lot of people, this should be about creating wealth, not
re-distributing wealth. The only way that people are going to get security
is through more prosperity and that means for most people their job. So what
are those things that we can do to increase job growth in this country? And
if you ask the people who are job providers, they are saying it's John
McCain's approach, not Barack Obama's approach.
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