[big campaign] MMR: McCain Defends Vote for Bailout, How McCain Differs from Bush on Spending, How Palin is Being Handled, Morning 10/02/08

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*Media Monitoring Report:* Highlights: 1. FNC: McCain: worked hard on the bailout but down in the polls: "Life isn't fair", Sarah is doing great she "knows that Franklin Roosevelt didn't talk to the American people over television" 2. MSNBC: McCain questioned on why he voted for bailout if it was full of pork, and how Bush so quickly destroyed a surplus MCCAIN: "… And there is a sharp difference, a total difference between myself and President Bush on the issue of pork barrel and earmark out of control spending and the growth of government without paying for it, don't forget that part." 3. CNN: McCain's "Hard Work" on the Bailout Plan, Keeping Bush Tax Cuts and the Attacks on Sarah Palin CHETRY: "Some of your critics said that perhaps it is was a stunt or perhaps that injecting Presidential politics gummed up the works, what do you say to that?" MCCAIN: "I think look at what happened is the best way to answer that." 4. CNN:* *Fred Thompson Defends Palin, She's Been Unfairly Attacked and "Micro-managed" Brings up Broken Teleprompter Story Clips: Highlight #1 *FNC: McCain: Worked Hard on the Bailout But Down in the Polls: "Life isn't Fair", Sarah is Doing Great She "Knows that Franklin Roosevelt Didn't Talk to the American People Over Television" *(FNC 10/02/08 07:58am) GRETCHEN CARLSON: You voted yep? JOHN MCCAIN: I not only did that I suspended my campaign… was very helpful in getting the house republicans to the table… BRIAN KILMEADE: … Barack Obama is gaining ever since this crisis… MCCAIN: Because life isn't fair […] He certainly did nothing in the first few days and as you know I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington and met with the house folks, got on the phones and also had face to face meetings. But look all I care about is getting this thing done. … This is the greatest financial crisis of our lifetimes… STEVE DOOCY: … In a perfect world would this have been the bill you would have passed? MCCAIN: I think there would have been some differences but fundamentally the changes after I came back… but we certainly approved it from what it was and I think that it can do the job. But it's like a turnicut, like a turnicut now we got to start fixing the wound. KILMEADE: Word is Senator that you're a little upset with your own staff for holding on to her a too tight and maybe keeping her back a little bit and not letting her be the person that was displayed in Dayton and at the convention. Is that true? MCCAIN: No, look you go through these things, sometimes you have certain techniques, you know briefings that work better with others, I think it's very, we let Sarah be Sara […] I think Sarah Palin knows that Franklin Roosevelt didn't talk to the American people over television, DOOCY: He was on the Internet wasn't he? MCCAIN: … but anyway a lot of this is just trivia, Sarah Palin is in a pizza parlor someone yells something at her and she kind of shouts back and Ah did you see what Sarah Palin said? Oh please, come on […] Frankly I wish that they had picked a moderator that isn't writing a book that's favorable to Barack Obama but I mean lets face it and, but I have to have confidence that Gwen Ifill will treat this in a professional, as a professional journalist that she is… KILMEADE: … If I was to look at your body language … and I watched you debating Barack Obama I get the sense that you just don't think that he belongs in your arena, is that correct? MCCAIN: Oh I think by virtue of the process he belongs in my arena but I can tell you I do not think he belongs as President of the United States… [FNC, Fox and Friends, 10/2/08] Highlight #2 *MSNBC: McCain Questioned on Why He Voted for Bailout if it Was full of Pork, and How Bush so Quickly Destroyed a Surplus* (MSNBC 10/02/08 08:53AM) JOE SCARBOROUGH: Why did these items have to be in this pivotal bill? JOHN MCCAIN: Well that is just the way the system is working in Washington and the reason why it's got to be fixed. And it's got to be changed, and no matter what the stakes are you've got to stop this by starting to veto bills that come across the president's desk. They can't help themselves and if you like some of those pork barrel projects, check out some of the ones that Senator Obama has proposed… SCARBOROUGH: Well you know Senator though, what is so staggering, even before Obama was in the Senate after 9/11, my god 9/11, while ground zero was still smoldering you all passed a bill to take care of it to protect this country, and people used the 9/11 relief bill to put pork barrel projects in there, it's just, it's insanity. MCCAIN: It's insanity and its obscenity… and until frankly we get a President that will say I'm going to veto these bills, I'm going to make the people famous… SCARBOROUGH: Explain this to me, when George W. Bush became President of the United States we had a $155 Billion surplus, we have now seen that surplus go to a deficit, we are going to have a $500 Billion deficit this year, a $5 Trillion debt became a $10 Trillion dollar debt, George W. Bush never vetoed a single spending bill while Rome was burning. Why not? MCCAIN: Because they believed having the majority for such a long time, not the last two years, that they didn't want to harm the old boy cozy network that existed and caused these huge earmark spending… And I and others fought tooth and nail against it, railed against it, I was called the sheriff, I was able to eliminate a lot of these projects, and there are a handful of us that have been fighting and warning that this could be incredibly harmful to the Republican party to the Republican party. … And there is a sharp difference, a total difference between myself and President Bush on the issue of pork barrel and earmark out of control spending and the growth of government without paying for it, don't forget that part. SCARBOROUGH: …Sarah has not done very well in some of these one on one interviews…, would you be willing to admit this morning that your campaign may not have handled Sarah Palin as well as they should have during the past month? MCCAIN: No I think we've handled her fine. … MIKA BRZEZINSKI: …Given especially what you've just been saying on our broadcast right now, why then didn't you vote against a bill that is corrupting and stand up to pork and all this spending during an economic crisis that some say puts this country on the brink of an economic disaster? MCCAIN: Because of what you just said Mika, that this bill is putting us on the brink of economic disaster, there were plenty of other bills that I fought against … BRZEZINSKI: But if we're going to have leadership through a crisis like this, and if we are going to look to you for that leadership, don't we have to stand up to the very things that are bringing Washington, at this point Wall Street down? MCCAIN: If you look at this, The Citizens For a Sound Economy, the National Tax-payers Union, the Citizens Against Government Waste, I have been a hero to them because I have fought continuously against these… I investigated Jack Abramoff… […] JIM KRAMER: Warren Buffett… he wants in, he actually wants to invest. Why don't you tell people that those that believe in the American people, those that believe that homeowners will fight to keep their homes are bankable and you want to be able to invest side by side with the US government because this plan will produce a profit? MCCAIN: Well I think that this plan will produce a profit. … This is a turnicut not a cure… Highlight #3 *McCain on CNN: His "Hard Work" on the Bailout Plan, Keeping Bush Tax Cuts and the Attacks on Sarah Palin *(CNN 10/02/08 08:55am) KIRAN CHETRY: I want to ask you about suspending your campaign. … Did it hurt you that you were not able to get enough house republicans to get it passed? JOHN MCCAIN: Well get it passed. I came back and extended my campaign and got the house into the negotiations at the table which they had not been before… I'm proud of the work that I did particularly engaging the house republicans …I suspended my campaign and put my country first and even if I would have failed it was the right thing to do. CHETRY: … What are you doing today to shore up support to make sure those republican holdouts do vote for this? MCCAIN: Oh I continue to be in conversation with the Republican leadership and my friends in the house, many of them are friends of mine. I think it's still going to be a tough vote but I believe that it is gonna pass and I am glad to have played a role in it. … I came to Washington and met face-to-face and worked hard and I am very proud of that . . . CHETRY: Some of your critics said that perhaps it is was a stunt or perhaps that injecting Presidential politics gummed up the works, what do you say to that? MCCAIN: I think look at what happened is the best way to answer that. …The majority leader Harry Reid said that I had to sign on to anything that happened and it was going to be a legislative package and then I came back to Washington and he said that I shouldn't have come back to Washington it was a little bit of foolishness there. It shows really how bitter the partisanship is here, especially on the part of some of the leading democrats. But I'm proud of what we did, the Republicans got engaged. … And we will have helped the American people, that's what my job is… CHETRY: …The next President is going to be facing quite a troubled economy, a ten trillion dollar deficit, what specifically are you going to be able to do to help the economy if your in office. MCCAIN: Well, create jobs through alternative-, eliminating our dependence on foreign oil, which is millions of jobs and stop sending 700 billion dollars a year to countries that don't like us very much, to make health care affordable and available, to eliminate wasteful and unnecessary spending which has been my record. … CHETRY: Specifically with the President's tax cut, it's set to expire, are you going to be able to keep that in place given the tremendous deficit we are facing? MCCAIN: If you raise people's taxes in a bad economy then you will hurt the economy very badly. That's a matter of economic record. I don't want to raise anyone's taxes… CHETRY: There have been a lot of questions being thrown around about your pick especially after her being unable to answer, in an interview with Katie Couric, what other Supreme Court decisions beside Roe v. Wade that she does not support. Do you think that was a fair question to ask the vice presidential nominee? MCCAIN: I think the American people decide what is fair. I know that there have been attacks on Sarah Palin that have been remarkable to me in many ways but I have total confidence in her… CHETRY: You said that she is comfortable in her own skin, some of the criticism has been that Sarah isn't allowed to be Sarah, that she's been tightly managed by the campaign, that's she's been holed up and maybe given too much information. What can we expect to see tonight as she debates Joe Biden? MCCAIN: … Look the fact is she'll do fine tonight, she has experience she has talent, she has leadership, she has a great inner strength, … She's taken on her own party, Joe Biden and Barack Obama have never taken on the leaders of their party on any issue, … CHETRY: Joe Biden actually did agree with you that in the primary campaigns that we can't leave Iraq and that you need to make sure that that war is funded so he did, and he said he was willing to lose because of it. MCCAIN: Actually Joe Biden said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries. One of the more cockamamie ideas that I have heard in a long long time…[CNN, American Morning, 10/02/08] Highlight #4 *Fred Thompson Defends Palin, She's Been Unfairly Attacked and "Micro-managed" Brings up Broken Teleprompter Story* (CNN 10/02/08 07:58am) FRED THOMPSON: Here's a woman with a very accomplished record…. She has to be introduced on the national level. It's understandable that she is going to take some bumps… a double standard has been applied to her that they do not apply to Joe Biden. … But she's been micromanaged, not micromanaged, microscoped and – JOHN ROBERTS: Wait a second was that a Freudian slip? THOMPSON: Well I don't know. I mean I don't know about that. ROBERTS: Has she been micromanaged- THOMPSON: I don't know. ROBERTS: Because there are some people that say that there has been too tight of rein on her by the McCain campaign and they just need to free the bonds and let her go to be herself. THOMPSON: Well it's possible, it's possible. … She had her teleprompter go out on her and she handled that… she has self-confidence… ROBERTS: I thought that that teleprompter story was a myth, that we had checked that with the RNC and they said that no there was not a problem with the teleprompter- THOMPSON: And no one ever makes a mistake at the RNC… Ask Rudy Giuliani about that teleprompter. [CNN 10/02/08] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. 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