[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Morning 08/27/08

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*Main Topics: *Hillary Clinton's Speech, Convention, Negative Ad *Summary of Shift: *Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney led the push back against the Democrats this morning. Both praised Hillary while agitating about signs of friction during the convention. Romney warmly admitted the Democratic convention goers were very friendly to him and that Biden would win any debate with his Republican counterpart. Overall, party unity and the Hillary Clinton speech last night were the dominate topics of discussion today. McCain's latest round of attacks on Obama's foreign policy gained some coverage, with at least Fox and MSNBC airing the new ad 'Tiny.' The broadcast networks are making an effort to introduce Joe Biden; all three ran biographical segments on Biden's life, Jill Biden, and other career high lights. Hurricane Gustav is gaining strength and threatening the Gulf Coast. The hurricane has potential to have considerable symbolic power, since it is believed that the storm will hit New Orleans near the anniversary of Katrina and during the beginning of the Republican Convention. Other news included the FDIC report that many banks are in danger of collapsing, oil prices are expected to loose stability because of fears that the storm will affect refining capability, and a prison break in New Mexico. Highlights: 1. Giuliani Makes Interview Rounds a. CNN: Says Bill Clinton's negative comments aimed at Obama, McCain will follow Pres Kennedy's legacy b. MSNBC: Giuliani stumped on why Bush speaking on Labor Day; Brzezinski mocks Ridge c. CBS: Continues Clinton X and Y theory, Praises Hillary Clinton's speech 2. CNN: Henry covers McCain's new round of attacks on Obama; mentions POW 3. MSNBC: Romney voices praise for Democratic convention goers, Biden 4. FNC: Huckabee hopes for Pawlenty, Veepstakes Highlights, No Clip: 1. ABC: DAVID LETTERMAN: Even the leaders in the oil industry know that Senator McCain has it wrong. We can't simply drill our way to energy independence. If you drilled everywhere, if you drilled in all of John McCain's backyards, even the ones he doesn't know he has. 2. FNC: Rudy Giuliani appears to talk about instant replay in baseball; has to leave shortly after beginning interview Local Coverage: 1. KPHO-CBS-AZ: CATHERINE ANAYA: John McCain spent the morning addressing the American legion convention today. He used the opportunity to launch new attacks on his democratic rival. McCain accused Barack Obama of being confused on his positions about America's place in world. 2. KGTV-ABC-CA: MICHAEL CHEN: The rally is organized by local Democrats, they sent us a press release; it's called 'How Many Homes, John?' Most of the protesters are protesting on veterans issues, they call McCain a veteran that is lost. Clips: *Highlight #1* *Giuliani Claims McCain Called For Surge Before Anyone; Says McCain Will Follow President Kennedy's Legacy* (CNN 08/27/08 7:30am) RUDY GIULIANI: I thought it was an excellent speech and from the point of view of being a Republican and a big supporter of John McCain, I appreciated the fact that it seemed to be a very technical speech about being a Democrat, supporting him as a Democrat, but she never answered the big question. The claim she made during the primaries was he wasn't prepared to be president of the United States. She never said that. And, of course, during the day it got compounded by Bill Clinton having that speech that he gave in which he talked about candidate X and candidate Y. And he said there may be a candidate X that you agree with but you don't think is prepared to be president. And a candidate Y that you half agree with but you do believe is prepared. Who would you vote for? Hillary never answered the question who is candidate X and who is candidate Y. KIRAN CHETRY: Well, you know -- GIULIANI: And I think that left a big gap. CHETRY: Well, what I'm wondering though, you know, is the GOP trying to paint her into a no-win situation. If she started bringing up some of Barack Obama's weaknesses that she talked about in the primary, she would have been panned for that. GIULIANI: Well, she doesn't have to say that. All she had to say is he's prepared to be president. She never said it. She could have talked about how she's gotten to know him, how much she believes in him, his character, his strength. I think the reason that woman is undecided about supporting Barack Obama, the woman who is very close to Hillary Clinton, is nothing really came from the heart here. This was a very good speech. They clearly agree on the issues. Now, Barack Obama is clearly Bill Clinton's candidate X with whom you agree on the issues but don't think is prepared to be president. CHETRY: Well, we'll see. GIULIANI: But I mean, we'll have to see what Bill says tonight. I'd like the answer from Bill as to who is candidate Y and who's candidate X. That was a very interesting thing that he did and at a very, very inauspicious time for Barack Obama. CHETRY: You know, another big theme last night for many of the speakers was that a vote for McCain means a vote to continue four more years of the Bush administration. And I know, and we've talked to a lot of John McCain supporters who say, look, he's a maverick. On examples like campaign finance reform, he's gone against the Bush administration. But really, how will McCain show besides those things that he is different from the Bush administration? GIULIANI: *John McCain was a supporter of the surge, you know, for several years before the surge happened and a critic of the administration for not doing it. In fact, a much stronger critic than I think any of the Democrats. * And John McCain was right about the surge and Barack Obama was wrong about the surge. So this is a silly kind of democratic thing that isn't going to work which is why their convention I don't think is succeeding. There are reasons to attack different candidates. You cannot say if you really watched politics for the last eight years that John McCain is a continuation of George Bush. Just not so. They agree on certain things. They disagree on certain things. And where John McCain disagreed he got in trouble in the Republican Party for being so strong about it. CHETRY: You know, it's interesting because another place they disagree with is about how they would handle the economy, what they would do about taxes. We have new poll out this morning. This is a CNN/Opinion Research poll showing that voters think Barack Obama would be better to handle the economy by a 51 to 43 percent margin. Has the economy become a Republican weak spot? GIULIANI: No. Actually, given the nature of Barack Obama's coverage, the enormously favorable coverage he received that even Governor Rendell complained about the other night, it's remarkable that he has such a small edge on the economy. The reality is that as the Americans get to know his plan to raise taxes, raise tariffs, and bring us towards socialized medicine and create a poverty fund for the world, I think Americans will realize that this would be the worst thing you could do to the economy. *John McCain is going to stick to the things that worked for President Kennedy, President Reagan, and President Bush.* CHETRY: How do you pay for it all? If you lower taxes and lower the corporate tax by 10 to 15 percent, how do you pay for it all? GIULIANI: How about you lower expenses? Which John McCain has been a hawk about all during the time he's been in Congress. After all, he came in with Ronald Reagan and he believes in the two twins of fiscal conservatism which is lower taxes but also significantly lower expenses which is what I did as mayor of New York City. That's how I paid for it. I lowered expenses. It's something that republicans and democrats have both run away from in the last four or five years. But John McCain can bring us back to that. And that is good, sound, American economics. *Brzezinski Mocks Ridge; Giuliani Stumped On Why Bush Is Speaking On Labor Day *(MSNBC 08/27/08 9:02am) RUDY GIULIANI: [...] Are they going to do to him what they did to Governor Warner and stick him to slots earlier so he doesn't get in prime time, we'll have to see. DAVID SHUSTER: *As supposed to sticking him in the first night of the Convention like what the Republicans are doing with George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney?* [...] GIULIANI: I *think George H.W. Bush did the same thing with Ronald Reagan. He put em on on a Monday night. President Reagan had a nice good bye and generally when you're moving on, thats what you- and what did Gore do with Bill Clinton in 2000?* [...] SHUSTER: How does the Republican Party keep from dissolving into chaos unless if it is Ridge or Lieberman, there's going to be a floor fight somebody else introducing the nomination of the Vice President. How does the GOP keep that- GIULIANI: I think the Vice Presidential candidate whoever he is has to say, I support John McCain's policies. I understand if I get elected, on the Republican ticket with John McCain at the top of the ticket- those are the policies the American people expect of me and the candidate will have to agree to that. [...] MIKE BRZEZINKI: *Tom Ridge? You mean the guy behind the guy behind the color coded security alerts? [throws hands up in disgust] Are you kidding me?* JOE SCARBOROUGH: Tell me when's the last time we had an attack on domestic soil? BRZEZINSKI: *I remember when we had the highest alert right before the election.* *Giuliani Praises Hillary's Speech; Says Clinton Remark Aimed At Obama* (CBS 08/27/08 7:40am) RUDY GIULIANI*: I enjoyed Hillary's speech. I noted that she did not answer the major question that she's raised about Barack Obama. She's the one in the primary that said he's not prepared to be President of the United States, as Joe Biden did*. No where in the speech did she answer that question about his character, his ability to lead, the things that are really at issue here. And here's the - DEAN REYNOLDS: But standing in this stadium and feeling the enthusiasm, don't you think Republicans have something to worry about? GIULIANI: No I think Republicans are very hardened by this convention. Everything seems to have gone not the way they have planned it. And the fact is, yesterday, Bil Clinton set up this equation that only Bill Clinton could do, about candidate Y and candidate X I don't know if you heard that. He said candidate Y is someone you agree with, but don't think is prepared to be President. And candidate X is someone you agree with half the time but is prepared, who would you vote for? Sounded to me like Hillary Clinton was talking about candidate Y last night. REYNOLDS: Wow. Mmm hmm. GIULIANI: And never answered the question is he prepared to be President and until she does, you're going to have a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters that either not going to vote, I talked to some of them here, or going to vote for John McCain. REYNOLDS: I don't remember any precedent for this where I've actually seen very very high profile members of the opposition party literally in the same building during the convention. You're here. We're going to talk to you. GIULIANI: Well I was there four years ago. The morning of John Kerry's speech, the one where he reported for duty. I was on the floor of the Democratic Convention then too so this is my second one. And Democrats came to our convention in New York. So this change in tradition goes back at least one campaign. REYNOLDS: Let me ask you this question, because as your convention comes up next week in the twin cities, I have to say Hillary Clinton had a very funny line about you can't tell them apart - George Bush and John McCain- twins just like the twin city. What do you think your most important job is next week? GIULIANI: My most important role is to talk to people from the heart. John McCain is someone I consider a hero. Even when I ran against John McCain, I announced if I wasn't running I'd be supporting him. So my job is to explain to the American people why John McCain would be so much more effective a leader than Barack Obama who has no experience. *Highlight #2* *Henry Covers McCain's Slew Of Attacks On Obama, Use of POW As Attack On Obama's Foreign Policy* (CNN 08/27/08 8:30am) KIRAN CHETRY: Well, there's Jay Leno taking a shot at Barack Obama's experience. And this morning John McCain's doing the same thing. His campaign going all out to spoil the Democrats' unity party in Denver with a series of new attacks. CNN's Ed Henry is looking at that. ED HENRY: John, Kiran, tonight Joe Biden takes center stage in Denver for national security night at the Democratic Convention. But John McCain tried to preempt all that here in Phoenix by launching a whole new series of attacks on Barack Obama. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From the Department of Arizona, Senator John McCain. HENRY: *John McCain teetered on the edge of questioning Barack Obama's patriotism, charging the Democrat is more confident in himself than in America's ability to provide moral leadership around the world.* [begin clip] JOHN MCCAIN: My opponent had the chance to express such confidence in America when he deliver a much anticipated address in Berlin. He was a picture of confidence, but in some ways, confidence itself and confidence in one's country are not the same. [end clip] HENRY: McCain also claimed his opponent is naive about world affairs, citing the lesson he says Obama took from the end of the Cold War. BARACK OBAMA: There is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one. HENRY: *McCain slammed that by mentioning his time as a prisoner of war.* [begin clip] JOHN MCCAIN: I miss a few years of the Cold War as a guest of one of our adversaries. But as I recall, the world was deeply divided during the Cold War, between the side of freedom and the side of tyranny. The Cold War ended not because the world stood as one, but because the great democracies came together, bound together by sustained and decisive American leadership. [end clip] HENRY: While Democrats feel the selection of Joe Biden as Obama's running mate helps inoculate them against attacks on foreign policy, McCain plans to harp on the inexperience at the top of the ticket to woo independent voters. A key part of the Republican strategy is to target disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters by using some of her words against Obama. Like recycling her old 3:00 a.m. ad in a new pitch released by McCain. [end clip] NARRATOR: Rogue nations. Radicalism. SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002. [end clip] NARRATOR: Hillary's right. HENRY: McCain is also still firing away at Obama's reaction to Russia's invasion of Georgia as too weak. [begin clip] MCCAIN: Confusion about such questions only invites more trouble, violence and aggression. To promote stability and peace, America must stand firmly on the side of freedom and justice. [end clip] HENRY: The Obama camp called this a false attack, noting the senator in Berlin also said he loves America because the nation sacrifices so much for freedom around the globe. But that's not stopping McCain. He believes this race is a dead heat because of all the tough questions about Obama's experience, and his advisers are promising they're only going to ramp up the attacks at next week's Republican Convention -- John, Kiran. *Highlight #3* *Romney Voices Praise For Democratic Convention Goers, Biden*(MSNBC 08/27/08 8:30am) MITT ROMNEY: So far we haven't heard a lot about positions, or how votes have been taken in the past, so it' nice to talk about reality, talk about what Barack Obama's actually done, what he stands for, what John McCain stands for. *And frankly, the Democrats have been quite gracious, I went through the convention hall yesterday and people shook hands and were friendly. It's nice to see even in a political convention, people are respectful of the folks on the other side.* JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let me tell you Governor, it hasn't been that way in the past conventions. I have been struck by the kindness and the generosity and the warmth of the Democrats on the Convention floor. It really- I don't think I've seen a group as well behaved and just gracious. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Couldn't get off the floor because people were mobbing him. ROMNEY: Isn't that amazing. [cross talk] SCARBOROUGH: Let me tell you when we get to St. Paul, I'm going to need body armor. But Governor let's talk about Hillary's speech last night. You've been going around saying she's been critical of Barack Obama but last night people a lot of people thought that was a full throated endorsement of Barack Obama. The party looks like it's unifying. ROMNEY: Well looks like and is are two different things. As Bill Clinton has said before is isn't what is means but in reality a lot of people in this country not going to do exactly what the party tells them to do or what their own candidate told them to do. They want to look at the individuals and decide who will really lead America in a place where we're stronger and more prosperous and I think they realize that Hillary's going to say everything she has to show her support of Barack Obama. They're going to hear loud and clear what she said during the primary, and that was that he was a speech, that he didn't have the experience to be President. And then Joe Biden saying that Barack Obama did not have the qualifications to be President. Those things ring loud in your ears long after the primary. We all said- we all said critical things of John McCain on issues, but no one on the Republican platform-when we had those debates-said that John McCain was anything other than a good [inaudible] President. [cross talk] But everyone said he was qualified, that he was a man who could be President and that we would support his President, and that's really different than what you heard from Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. SCARBOROUGH: You did say though that he did not know anything about the economy. ROMNEY: *No, not exactly that phrase [crosstalk] but I could be accused of a little hyperbole as well. But John McCain knows a lot more about the economy than Barack Obama does. John McCain may not have spent years in the private sector, but I was trying to pitch myself on that basis, but John McCain has been there during the Reagan revolution, he's seen what has made the economy go up, cause it to get weak, and John McCain-* SCARBOROUGH: Look at you guys, friends forever. Best friends. [...] If you were John McCain, who would you pick for Vice President? ROMNEY: Joe Scarborough. [...] ROMNEY*: I don't think many people can stand up to Joe Biden, I'm quoting a columnist in the Boston Globe, talking about someone else, and impenetrable thicket of words, the guy is all words. And I don't know anyone who is going to beat him in a debate, but I do believe we happen to be right on the issues and I hope we win.* But I also believe if you go back and look at where Joe Biden has been for, you'll see he has thirty years of foreign policy experience, but he's got thirty years of usually being wrong. Everything from our build up to defeat the Soviets, he was wrong on that, he voted against the first Gulf War, he was in favor of dividing Iraq into three different nations, where would be now if we had done that? So he's been wrong time and time again. [...] *Highlight #4* *Huckabee Opines On VP Choices, Support Of Pawlenty* (FNC 08/27/08 10:07am) [...] MIKE HUCKABEE: Tim Pawlenty's smart, he's effective, he's one of my personal favorites. I've known Tim of course as a Governor and I like him a lot. I think you know one of the things he brings is a total loyalty to John McCain. He was on McCain's team from the very beginning, nothing he has to live down what he ever said, so you know it's a safe pick in that no ones goin to dig up tape of Tim Pawlenty saying something unkind or unholy about John McCain from six months ago. [...] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. It is not affiliated with any group or organization. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---