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[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Morning 08/15/08
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*Main Topics*: Russia, Saddleback Candidate Forum, Faith and Religion
*Summary of Shift:*
Political news continues to be dominated by the Russian Georgian
conflict. Clips
of Rice and Bush demanding a cease-fire and withdrawal were continuously
played on all major networks. Jerome Corsi's book and Obama's response also
received a large portion of media coverage. Rick Warren appeared on several
networks to speak about the upcoming candidate forum sponsored by his
Saddleback Church. The forum brought up segments on both candidates faith
and religious ties.
All other news consisted of Olympic updates. Michael Phelps is
one gold away from tying the all time record for most gold medals won in a
single Olympic game. The US took gold and silver in the women's all around
gymnastics competition.
*Highlights:*
1. FNC: Jerome Corsi supports his book and talks about death threats and
Obama camp response
2. FNC: Fox highlights McCain's recent comments about religion and faith
during POW days
3. ABC: McCain and Obama's faith and politics of religion scrutinized
ahead of weekend forum
4. CNN: McCain's messiah ad stirring Obama Anti-Christ rumors, playing
into evangelical fears
5. FNC: Rick Warren refuses to endorse a candidate despite his
conservative views
*Highlights, No Clips:*
1. CNN – KIRAN CHETRY: "Singer Jackson Browne suing John McCain and the
Republican Party over the use of his famous song, "Running on Empty". A
campaign ad used the song to mock Obama's suggestion that Americans check
their tire pressure. Browne says that, besides violating copyright laws, the
use of the song suggests he backs McCain, which he does not. McCain campaign
says they had nothing to do with the ad. The Ohio republican party was
behind it."
2. CNN – JOHN ROBERTS: "T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil tycoon
turned wind energy magnet, meeting with John McCain for breakfast this
morning. Pickens says he's critical of both candidates energy plans."
Clips:
Highlight #1
*Jerome Corsi Supports His Book and Talks About Death Threats and Obama Camp
Response* (FNC 08/15/08 8:26am)
STEVE DOOCY: It's the number one book on the New York Times Best-Sellers
List, it's right here it's called "Obama Nation". […] I should point out
that it's going to be number one with a little dagger. The New York Times is
saying that your book, Obama Nation, is being bought in bulk by a bunch of
conservatives.
JEROME CORSI: Well, it's not true. The sales are all retail sales, I defy
the New York Times to tell which conservatives are buying the book and
putting them away in warehouses. It's not happening.
DOOCY: Alright, so you've written this book, […] meanwhile the Obama is
circulating this, it's called "Unfit for Publication". And it's forty pages
where it essentially calls you a liar and a bigot.
CORSI: Yes, well, I think some juvenile leftists have taken over the Obama
campaign and gotten a hold of Photoshop. I mean, first of all now I'm
getting death threats and hate mail from Obama supporters, and we […] are
tempted to start publishing them to see the level at which the Obama
campaign is descendant on personal attacks. As I point out many times,
ad-homonym attacks, attacking me personally is the lowest form of argument,
it's been considered a logical fallacy since Aristotle, it doesn't refute
the claims of the book.
[…]
DOOCY: You're getting these death threats because you wrote a book, and in
fact there's a website, Daily-Kos, that's published your home address?
CORSI: That's correct, and invited Obama supporters to come and harass my
family. I mean, Steve, this is an attack, not on me, but on the first
amendment. I've written the book, what is Senator Obama going to do if he's
in the White House, he's going to come unglued if a foreign nation, who's an
enemy, calls him a name, are they going to go berserk and start banging
against the walls? Answer the issue of epithets and say, how dare they
attack me? Say our enemy's racist? I mean this is really kind of juvenile
behavior on the part of the Obama campaign.
DOOCY: You were involved in the writing of the swift boat book four years
ago. And so a lot of people have suggested, well the Obama campaign is not
going to allow their candidate to get swift-boated, once again, by this guy.
And do you feel almost, that you, yourself are being swift-boated?
CORSI: Well, in a way. But I also think the Obama campaign is making the
identical mistakes of the Kerry campaign. They've started now calling me
names, and trying to get the New York Times to introduce me as a gad-fly,
and try to get the A.P. to do press releases for them. I couldn't find this
41 page reports on the websites until 1am. And so now, there's substantive
issues in here. You know, they say I got incorrect the date of Senator
Obama's marriage. Well, what would be really helpful is if Senator Obama
would release primary documents, like his birth certificate. The campaign
has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website. How is anybody
supposed to really piece together his life?
DOOCY: What do you mean they posted a false birth certificate on their
website?
CORSI: The original birth certificate of Obama has never been released and
the campaign refuses to release it. […] As I point out in Obama Nation, and
by the way I don't know what chapters in here the campaign is so afraid the
people are going to read. They must be desperately afraid of this book.
DOOCY: Well, what they've done is they've taken points from your book and
they say, this is a lie and then they clarify it. And if people would like
to read what they say about it, it's certainly out there on the internet, I
believe it is on the Obama website.
CORSI: And I'll be issuing rebuttals, now that we've got some response, I'll
be going through this point by point. Many of these are quibbles of minor
details. Also differences of argumentation, and some of them are also wrong.
DOOCY: Just answer the question that they say right in the beginning of
this. That you're a liar. You don't want Obama to be president and you're a
liar.
CORSI: As I say, the book was written to be truthful and the substantive
charges, that Barack Obama was with Sal Olinski, that he has a communist
mentor in high school, and they don't refute those substantive points.
They're quibbling about detail.
Highlight #2
*Fox Highlights McCain's Recent Comments About Religion and Faith During POW
Days* (FNC 08/15/08 7:35am)
STEVE DOOCY: Meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about religion. In fact,
this morning in the Chicago Tribune, John McCain is discussing how his faith
helped him as a POW in Vietnam.
GRETCHEN CARLSON: That's a first, because he normally does not talk, number
one that much about his POW experience, or about his faith.
DOOCY: Exactly right. Here's what he said, and this is quite a quotation,
McCain says, "There were many times I didn't pray for another day, and I
didn't pray for another hour. I prayed for another minute to keep going.
He should talk about that more.
BRIAN KILMEADE: What I found out when he was in prison, when he was hooked
up with the other guys, the other POWs, he was in charge of giving the
sermon, so he had to read the bible, interpret the bible, on a daily basis.
John McCain was.
CARLSON: He should talk about that more. I mean, I'm no political pundit but
I would maybe recommend that.
[…]
Highlight #3
*McCain and Obama's Faith and Politics of Religion Scrutinized Ahead of
Weekend Forum* (ABC 08/15/08 7:29am)
DIANE SAWYER: Speaking of Senator Obama and John McCain, they are going to
be making their first joint appearance of this final campaign tomorrow,
taking part in a forum moderated by mega-church Pastor Rick Warren. He says
he wants to ask them probing questions about religion and personal values.
[…]
JAKE TAPPER: […] Well religion has played a huge roll in this campaign which
may be why it doesn't seem all that unusual that the first joint appearance
for Obama and McCain would be here in the Los Angeles area, at the
Saddleback Church, home congregation of best-selling author and pastor, Rick
Warren.
[…]
John McCain has had other complications. Never wildly popular among
conservative Christian leaders, he's never really seemed comfortable talking
about his faith. Raised Episcopalian, he now attends a Baptist church.
MCCAIN: I'm unashamed and unembarrassed about my deep faith in God. But, I
do not, obviously, try to impose my views on others.
TAPPER: Tomorrow, both men will be quizzed by Pastor Rick Warren.
RICK WARREN: We're going to look at leadership. Specifically, their
character, their competence, their experience. […]
TAPPER: A lot of evangelicals don't see John McCain as one of their own. Is
that fair?
*WARREN: I think it's fair*, I think a lot of evangelicals don't see Barack
Obama as one of their own. Many evangelicals think neither of these guys are
evangelical. I think both John McCain and Barack Obama, and their
relationship to Jesus Christ, is their relationship.
[…]
Highlight #4
*McCain's Messiah Ad Stirring Obama Anti-Christ Rumors, Playing into
Evangelical Fears *(CNN 08/15/08 09:46am)
HEIDI COLLINS: Just a joke? Or playing into fears? A campaign ad is causing
a buzz on the internet.
DAVID MATTINGLY: When you listen to this John McCain ad, it might sound like
Barack Obama has a messiah complex. […] *The McCain campaign says it's all
in good fun. But not everyone's laughing. Some democrats say the ad, which
appears only on the internet, is infused hidden messages to evangelical
Christians*. Messages that Barack Obama isn't the messiah at all.
STEVE WALDMAN: *It reinforces things that they've been hearing, around the
internet, that maybe Barack Obama is in fact the Anti-Christ.*
MATTINGLY: The ad's been viewed 1.2 million times on YouTube. *A Google
search for Obama and Anti-Christ returns an incredible 900 thousand
hits.*One website is completely dedicated to the question, is Obama
the
Anti-Christ? 73 percent of the sites online polls say, either yes or maybe.
Could the McCain ad be saying the same thing? Critics accuse the McCain
campaign of trying to tap into biblical prophecy to stir evangelical voters.
A group McCain has had difficulty reaching.
ERIC SAPP: *Going back to the classic republican playbook of playing to
these people's fears, trying to send a message to these folks that you
really need to be careful. You really need to worry about this guy, he
literally could be a cosmic antichrist figure*. And for a lot of people that
may sound strange to believe, but there is a significant part of the
American community that will take this stuff very seriously.
MATTINGLY: Democratic Faith Issues Consultant Eric Sapp argues the McCain ad
borrows ideas and visual imagery from the blockbuster "Left Behind" series.
The books weave a tale of a modern day Anti-Christ, a young political leader
who rises to power with a message of peace and unity and leads a world
religion that proclaims we are god. That sounds a lot like this Obama clip
used in the ad.
[Anti-Obama Ad]
MATTINGLY: The McCain says it's just having fun with what it calls Obama's
tendency to get carried away with audacious statements. But since the
release of the ad, Obama Anti-Christ internet traffic is up. Even the
authors of the "Left Behind" books felt they had to speak out because they
are seeing that question more and more often. Do they think Obama is the
Anti-Christ. And each time they say the answer is no way.
JERRY JENKINS: The Anti-Christ will not be someone who is suspected of being
the Anti-Christ by anybody. If half the country thinks one of the
candidates is the Anti-Christ he's not the Anti-Christ.
MATTINGLY: *A spokesman for the McCain campaign calls the ad lighthearted. One
website takes the joke a little further, selling t-shirts and mugs showing
the Obama symbol with a pair of horns*.
Highlight #5
*Rick Warren Refuses to Endorse a Candidate Despite his Conservative
Views*(FNC 08/15/08 8:59am)
GRETCHEN CARLSON: […] "You are not going to endorse either of these
candidates, at least publicly. But you do oppose abortion, you define
marriage as the union of a man and a woman, if people look at that they
might think you're siding with John McCain."
RICK WARREN: Well you know what,* I'm not just pro-life, I'm whole life*. I'm
concerned about that baby girl before she's born, but I'm also concerned
about that baby girl after she's born. Whether she's born into poverty,
whether she gets an education, whether she's born addicted to crack or born
with aides. So we're whole life by expanding my agenda, but it's really not
about me, it's about what Barack Obama believes, it's about what John McCain
believes. I think there will be a lot of people that will say well I
disagree with Obama on this and I disagree with McCain on that, but I happen
to like this about Obama and I happen to like this about McCain. And they
are going to have to weigh their options. […]
CARLSON: *What do you say to the critics who say your type of religion may
be the watering down of religion, that maybe your putting ahead social
justice as opposed to the, what they deem the real message of being a
Christian*. How do you respond to that?
WARRREN*: Well first I flatly deny* it because Saddleback Church has won
more people to Jesus Christ than any church in America. In the last 20
years, excuse me, in the last 10 years we have baptized over 20,000 new
adult converts. I am for the good news of Jesus Christ, that he is the
answer to all of our problems, and he's the only way to heaven. *But I'm
also for the common good, and my goal is to say what's best for America* in
this particular thing. Now I believe that both the left and the right, you
know you get attacked from both sides because when you try to do a middle
ground you got enemies on both sides.
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