[big campaign] Media Monitoring Report - Evening 06/13/08

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*Main Topics:* McLobbyists, McCan't rally the base, Obama, Tim Russert* Summary of Shift:* Tonight was the saddest night of media monitoring on record as a nation and a district especially mourned the passing of legendary journalist, Tim Russert. From John Edwards to Colin Powell, policy makers and officials mourned the loss. From Fox News to local network outlets, press paid homage to the man. All of the journalism industry today is shaken and unsure how they will cover the race to November in the face of this tremendous loss. Highlights 1. John McCain reacts to Russert's death 2. McLobbyists a. Allegations about Fiorina's Iranian involvement make headlines b. Pfotenhauer toes the McCain line on Fox 3. McCain spokesman attacks Obama for willingness to meet with Ahmadenijad 4. Buchanan expresses GOP dismay with McCain Clips Highlight #1 *McCain Speaks about What it Was Like to Appear with Russert* (MSNBC 06/13/08 6:01pm) KELLY O'DONNEL: […] today was with Senator McCain […] and it seemed so unbelievable not only to me but to [McCain and Lieberman] and they shared their thoughts and their remembrances about being on *Meet the Press* so many times […]. [Russert] had a way of holding those lawmakers to account, especially those presidential candidates. […] JOHN MCCAIN: Well, we're very saddened. As so many Americans are and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and his friends. Tim Russert was the top of his profession. He was always tough. He was always fair. He was always fair. He was tough on all of us and what America gained from him was the insight and the knowledge about the leadership of our country that made them more capable of rendering judgments and also being informed. We'll miss him and again our sympathy and our prayers go out to his friends and family and God rest and God bless. […] *I once told him that I hadn't had so much fun since my last interrogation in prison camp*. He was very tough, but very fair. [There were] many things that Timr Russert expected of you, but one of them was to be straightforward and he could cut through a filibuster better than anybody I ever know [sic]. I know. I tried it several times Another thing that was attribute—that was a great attribute: he did his homework and he studied what your positions were, what your ideas and thoughts were but he also wanted to know what you were gonna do for the country. So, again it is not a surprise that he was at the top of his profession and going on *Meet the Press *on Sunday was both a joy and a great fear but he also, among many other things allowed you the ability to communicate with millions of Americans and he also made it very clear that, if you were not communicating adequately, he was gonna try to make sure that you did. <http://www.box.net/shared/1q3ys8ngos> *McCain Speaks about Passing of Tim Russert* (MSNBC 06/13/08 5:16pm) KEITH OLBERMANN: As we said John McCain who'd already issued a generous statement about Tim Russert was interviewed this afternoon by Kelly O'Donnell of NBC news. JOHN MCCAIN: Senator Lieberman and I would like to just make a brief statement concerning the shocking news about the untimely death of a great journalist and a great American, Tim Russert. *Tim Russert was at the top of his profession. He was a man of honesty and integrity. He was hard but he was always fair. We miss him. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and we know that Tim Russert leaves a legacy of integrity of the highest level of journalism and we'll miss him and we'll miss him a lot.* Again he was hard, he was fair, he was at the top of his profession. He loved his country. He loved the Buffalo Bills and most of all he loved his family. Highlight #2 *Carly Fiorina Likely Has Past Business Relationships with Iran* (MSNBC 06/13/08 TAMRON HALL: […] the Democratic National Committee is claiming that one of McCain's top supporters has had past business links to Iran. The DNC says Carly Fiorina was head of Hewlett-Packard at a time when the company was trying to get around laws against doing business with Iran. Fiorina is currently chair of the Republican National Committee victory fund. No comment yet from the McCain campaign on this one. Clip label: TH CF MSNBC 06-13-08 11.08 (JR#371) WBb *Battle Over Energy Policies, Nancy Pfotenhauer Defends McCain* (FNC, 6/12/08 8:10pm) LAURA INGRAHAM: And joining us now from Virginia, is Nancy Pfotenhauer who's a domestic policy advisor for Senator McCain and from Los Angelas, Obama supporter Matthew Litman. Nancy and Matthew, great to have you with us. Matthew, let's start with you, cause Senator Obama had some pretty strong words today about McCain's tax plan and his economic outlook. My question to you is if Obama is complaining about supply outstripping demand, why won't Barack Obama urge congress to break this dead lock and move forward and at least explore the possibility of drilling in Anwr where we know there are 20 billion barrels of oil underneath the surface of 2,000 acres. why won't he do it? MATTHEW LITMAN: What good would it do? We wouldn't get that gasoline from Anwr for 10 years even if we started drilling tomorrow. So for the next ten years, what are we going to do? We need to have comprehensive energy plan that starts right now. 10 years from now gas prices -- I don't know what they are going to be they are going to keep going up and up and up. Drilling in Anwr is a long-term solution. The short-term and the long term we need to figure out what to do, with an energy plan. We haven't had one for the last eight years. Drilling in Anwr doesn't do any good. INGRAHAM: Nancy, I believe in comprehensive approach to this as well. however, the facts are is that in Anwr, if we were able to explore, get those barrels of oil out of that ground, we would be free of Saudi imports for 25 to 50 years by some estimates. 25 to 50 years. Those are the facts, Matthew. If that's the case, why is John McCain wrong on this? We have a case where Obama and McCain are both failing to do what the American people want, which is to explore for oil where we can and do so responsibly? NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Let me agree and disagree with you, Laura. Senator McCain does not support drilling in Anwr at this time. He is a very strong supporter of increasing domestic production. I mean, he supports increasing drilling where we already have it. That is actually that the quickest way to get the barrels out of the ground, if you will. I would contrast that with Senator Obama's plan, which I call the perfect storm on energy prices. He wants to raise taxes on oil. He wants to raise taxes natural gas. He wants to raise taxes on coal. This is a trifecta of bad economic policy. Just look at the win fall profits tax he has most recently proposed. It is preposterous to propose that at the time which when gas prices are this high. It has been tried before. What it does is it lowers production and raises prices for consumers. INGRAHAM: You can respond but let me just ask you a question and you can respond within the question. Isn't it a little problematic for Senator Obama to be pushing this, oh, let's go after big oil and have win fall profits taxes*, doesn't that play into John McCain saying this is just another Carter term? This is a second Carter term, you say a the third Bush term. Isn't that the same old-same old there? We have heard these solutions before from the democrats, and they haven't really worked, we tried them in the 70's.* LITMAN: We haven't heard these solutions before in terms of Barack Obama's energy policy, which is a lot different. I was 9 years old when Jimmy Carter was president. INGRAHAM: You are lucky you didn't have to wait in line for gasoline. LITMAN: Exxon Mobil makes, what? Let's say they make $10 billion profits a year. Why do they deserve $3 billion in more tax cuts per year? I mean, that's ridiculous. They are already making $10 billion a year. Why should they be on corporate welfare? INGRAHAM: Matthew, Matthew, what I don't understand is, democrats act like these oil companies don't pay billions of dollars in taxes. You make it difficult enough for businesses in this country. And I think democrats are going to be scratching their heads saying, gee I wonder why people don't want to start businesses in the United States. Because they are demonized when there are years when they don't make these profits. Right now the return on the dollar for these oil companies is about 9%, which is, you know, it's not fantastic, it's not terrible, but, over the course of time, it's about a 9% return on investment. On all the things they have to do to get that oil out of the round or explore for it. *So I would be very careful in saying that oh these are, these terrible oil' companies. I think that is so cheap style politics, and both candidates do it. Nancy, I have just got to tell you that I think McCain is missing the boat here. He is missing the opportunity to hit it out of the park. If I were he on the Fourth of July I would stand there at a gas station and say, you are paying these prices because democrats are putting road blocks in the way of exploring domestically, period.* PFOTENHAUER: He does say that essentially. Barack Obama is hanging our energy future on fuels and technologies that are still in the lab. He is against everything that is safe and proven and available right now. Like drilling for oil and natural gas and coal production. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal. And, at the same time Senator Obama is rattling sabers at Canada and Mexico who are the friendly's who supply us with 43% of our imported oil. *His policies are incoherent and they are going to hurt consumers.* And that's a huge problem when you think about the fact that every good and service, virtually every good and service that you get in this economy has some portion of the cost attributed to energy. You raise energy prices, you raise the price of every good and service. LITMAN: Absolutely ridiculous. What are the differences between John McCain's policies and George Bush's policies? My gas prices here in Los Angeles are $4.50 for unleaded. They have gone up from $2. You're telling me that John McCain has no difference in his policies than George Bush. If you want to talk about going back to Jimmy Carter, John McCain has the same policies that we have had for 25 years. They don't work. We need a new energy policy. Let's remember it's McCain who said he doesn't know a lot about the economy and he will read Alan Greenspan's book. He said that three or four months ago. INGRAHAM: Matthew, I know you as a good liberal. You drive that Vespa scooter to work. So the gas is not. Highlight #3 *McCain Spokesman: Easier for Obama to Meet with Ahmadinejad Than McCain*(FNC 06/12/08 6:21pm) BRET BAIER: McCain spokesman, Brian Rogers added quote, *"Barack Obama has more conditions for having a town hall with John McCain than he does for meetings with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."* Fox asked the Obama campaign for reaction to that comment and to the debate over the dates and specifics of the town hall, but as of deadline there had been no response. Highlight #4 *Buchanan: McCain is Especially Not Like Ronald Reagan *(MSNBC 06/13/08 1:11pm) PAT BUCHANAN: […] *basically the popular culture is a pile of garbage in a lot of ways [GOPers] feel that it corrupts children and things like that and this is a real feeling in Middle America and it's one of the motivating forces* behind the Evangelical Christian movement, the traditional Christians, conservative Jewish folks and others *to really change [popular culture] and change the Supreme Court.* TAMRON HALL: Does it have anything to do with some of the sex scandals we've seen within the Republican Party? Larry Craig, even though, of course, he insists that he did nothing wrong, David Vitter—doe it have anything to do with those headlines? *PAT BUCHANAN: Sure it does. A lot of republicans have a feeling of disgust about their own party from the Foley scandal to the Craig scandal that you mentioned and David Vitter and other things, Abramoff and all these things.*The general moral climate of Washington's gone downhill and our party, a lot of republicans feel has really let us down. That's not the president personally but it is the party and, in a lot of ways, the party hasn't maintained its principles and they look at society and *there is, I think a sense of pessimism and gloom on the part of an awful lot of republicans and a lack of enthusiasm and fire for this election because they don't see John McCain as really the kind of moral leader they would really would [sic] like to have. They support him but they don't think he's a kind of leader like Ronald Reagan.* HALL: Why do you think democrats don't see it the same way? And please don't say it's because they have fewer values and morals. Please don't say that. BUCHANAN: [laughs] They like what's going on! HALL: They like the wild, wicked ways! BUCHANAN: Well, listen. There is a cultural divide. I mean, democrats are very much, for example, by and large, they're for gay rights and gay marriage, even and there's no doubt these causes are advancing and these causes are enormously off-putting to conservatives. Conservatives feel they're losing the culture war. […] HALL: […] *Pat, but can you keep some of the old ways and evolve? Because not all of the old days were good.* BUCHANAN: No. There weren't. There were a lot of things wrong, but they see an awful lot of change is not change for the better. […] I don't think, Tamron people feel that politics really has an answer to these problems and I think that's right. -- Jacob Roberts Media Analyst PMUSA (c) 208.420.3470 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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