McCain And The Media...Is The Honeymoon (Finally) Over?

[WestSideHK]

Wallace is kind of hot for a worthless GOP criminal. Too bad her boy McCain got his ass handed to him last Tues. Maybe she needs a nice youg liberal boy to bend her over and "turn that frown, upside down":)

[YouAreToughOnline]

brooke buchanan, mccain's traveling press secretary, is a hyperactive manly bitch.

[lilaznballaz1022]

wait wtf is going on here?

[foreverforgiving]

Well why in hell would anyone be blaming this on the women who are paid to do what McCain and his campaign tel them to do. It is just downright typically American male to say she should be water-boarded and to call her a bitch. That's what's gotten you into the problem you're in asshole. And John McCain with you, but I'd never say you should be water-boarded just because you're ignorant.

[smitty1276]

The group-"think" in these comments is astounding!

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

I was in the white house for five years. Which white house? It doesn't matter. HUH???????? These girls got close and couldn't interview, I could never get close enough to ask him anything the way I dress, not that I would WANT to. He doesn't want me to marry!

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

He has a melanoma scar?

[Dacktyl]

These fucking harpies should be water-boarded!

"do we have a problem?" Yes, bitch. You're a snide little piss-ant working for more death, war, disease, division, poverty and injustice. We DO have a problem.

[hellenstrasse44]

These girls are very unprofessional. If this is what McCain employs on his campaign staff, then I am sure we will get more of the same Bush style manipulation, propaganda and outright lying to the public through the press corps if he is elected.

[tornadohurricane5]

"do we have a problem here??"

No bitch WE don't have a problem YOU do.

A local reporter was astute enough to get you to identify yourself so he could better report

on your cunty bullshit.  That's only your problem. Sorry.

[tornadohurricane5]

I love how she tries not to answer who she is.

The question to the Press Secretary is "and you are?"

Her answer "why does that matter?"

First of all this bitch should have introduced herself to begin with. Why should anyone listen to her run her mouth when she hasn't even identified herself. Then she tries to get away with not identifying herself

when asked. In someone else's house! Fuck You Cunt.

[tornadohurricane5]

"you just seem really agitated"

The only appropriate response to that is

Fuck You Cunt.

But to his credit he remained professional in the face of this bitchy cunt.

[tornadohurricane5]

"...oink oink oink...I worked at the White House for seven years..."

Wow what a little hotshot you are.

Nobody in that studio gave a shit.

[tornadohurricane5]

"not my staff I work for her"

Bitch shut the fuck up and stop interrupting.

You know what he meant.

[tornadohurricane5]

Bitches when you are in someone else's house you remain polite. Snotty bitches got their due. I love how they have to identify themselves.

[tornadohurricane5]

These arrogant snotty bitches put in their place.

[3dbeing]

That's pretty much how the wonderful world of mass manipulation works, everyone wants to be the one in control and do the manipulating... Nothing special here, people in this biz only smile when the camera's are rolling, cept johnny boy, he's a prick 24/7...

[bobcrachetkatienanna]

Angry women.

[bobcrachetkatienanna]

psssycho

[patsagainstrats]

McCain's "honeymoon" with press ended as soon as he became the presumptive Republican nominee. Remember the Treason Times' smear?

[NObamma2008]

UTBESUX... you really drank the cool-aid didn't you. Your comments are so disconnected with really, I'm having trouble deciding whether they are worth responding to. Can you explain how McCain now has Obamma's position on Iraq? Also, can you explain how Obama can claim that he "opposed the war from the very begining" when he DID NOT VOTE AGAINST IT... He merely abstained (I assume b/c he didn't want to be seen voting agaisnt something that everyone else knew was needed, Including Dem's!

[NObamma2008]

If you don't believe that Iraq would have fallen to Iran and Alqueda had the we pulled out like SLObama wanted, then your not paying attention or worse. As for gas prices... they fell $10 in two days... that's faster than they have fallen in 27 years. As for 911... Bush was in office like 3 months! You can blame Mr. "BJ in the oval office instead of paying attention" Clinton for that!

[NObamma2008]

In fact, when does Slobama EVER answer questions... HE DOESN'T, b/c he doesn't have to... the press just sits there ogling him like he's some kind of media messiah! Every time I see McCain on TV, he's at a Town Hall answering questions! Obama just stands there behind his podium spouting off B.S.

[UTBESUX]

I have NEVER seen Obama NOT answer a question. U mean like McCain NOT answering questions because he has NO CLUE? Yeah McCain answers questions like this. "I know how to win wars my friend" REALLY? How? He recently FLIPPED on Afghanistan and adopted Obama's plan as his own. DID MCCAIN'S wife get media attention on her STEALING recipes & claiming they were hers & what about her STEALING prescriptions for pain pills from a CHARITY & getting away with it? The media sucks & is a HUGE joke period.

[NObamma2008]

Ummm... I saw them... You obviously saw them... They were broadcasted on every news station in the country, including FOX! But, where are the clips of SLObamma answering questions about what he will do when Iraq falls to Alqueda in the North and Iran in the south... where's his answer to why the price of Oil Dropped 10$ a barrel after Bush lifted the executive ban on drilling when he's says lifting the ban will have no effect! Where are those loops? They don't exist b/c he never gets hard Q's!

[UTBESUX]

When Iraq falls to Al Qaeda? Who "predicted that" you people seem to think your physics, where were u guys when 911 happened? Couldn't predict that aye? Don't forget 911 happened on Bush's watch. NO I didn't see the McCain shit on the news because it was done in a blink of an eye. Oil prices drop & BUSH gets credit? That is a JOKE right? U can't see the game? U don't recall AS PREDICTED gas prices going down during the last elections? Soon people will think $3 gas is cheap. What a joke.

[NObamma2008]

The press LOVED McCain when he was pushing for more sensible legislation even when it was at the expense of the far right. BUT, now that the liberal MESSIAH (Obama), has arived, the press can't discard McCain fast enough. McCain is plain spoken and clear about his message and is challenged on every syllable. Obama's message, however, sounds more like a church sermon, with lofty ideals and no substance. Where are the tough questions to Obama about his message??? Nonexistent!

[UTBESUX]

NObamma2008 GIVE ME A BREAK! Where was the loops of McCain's nut job evangelists he sought out? Where was the reports that he screwed up on Iraq & Iran or when he didn't know Shia from Sunni? Or when he didn't even know who the leader of Russia was or when he spoke of a nation that NO longer exists? If you want to believe your own bullshit so be it but don't spread MISINFORMATION. The media as a whole is a propaganda machine if that is your source for info then you are pretty dumb!

[RonPaulGeorgeRingo]

Say what you will about "journalists" (good and bad), but the "average" American is much dumber than the average journalist.

2000 - Dumb

2004 - Dumber

[MojoJuana]

and 2008-brain dead for mcbush

[IDCL3]

I guess they wanted to cover up that hideous growth on the side of Grampa's face.

[StellarMortem]

What honeymoon asshole!

The media has never been good to McCain

The New York Times accused him of an affair with no proof and ran with the story anyway

And they all keep saying he's running for Bush's 3rd term

Obama is the one in bed with the media, especially with CNN and PMSNBC

[UTBESUX]

StellarMortem THE MEDIA has never been kind to McCain? REALLY? Where was his loop of HIS PASTORS who are right wing filth? Where is the LOOP where McCain didn't know Sunni from Shia or that Iran has troops in Iraq? Or how about his wife STEALING prescriptions from a CHARITY for pain killers & getting away with it? Or her submitting STOLEN recipes as her own? Or the fact that McCain still thinks Czechoslovakia still exists? The media does nothing but question Obama 24/7 THEY give MCSAME A PASS!

[MojoJuana]

yeah, also, phil gramm, mcbush's senior economic advisor, spearheaded the enron loophole and deregulations that led to this current sky high energy cost and mortage and bank meltdowns. and he's got the audacity to call the crisis imaginary!

[obscurant]

Brooke Buchanan, Nicole Wallace, both former Bush/Cheney minions. Total assholes.

[MarkG45]

What the hell are they squabbling over? This video needs some damn context

[justcallmesoso]

this men are journalist. they were supposed to interview senator mccain. mccains staffs (this women) seem to want to control the interview, which ankel and somehow maybe edit it? It´s controversial (or at least should be) because, the media should be free.

[johnnyk67]

"What the hell are they squabbling over? This video needs some damn context."

All the fuss was over the McCain campaign's (Brooke Buchanan & Nicolle Wallace) attempt to micromanage 'the shot.'

They always make sure ol' Johnny never gets shot from the left (melanoma scar) and always has patriotic imagery in the background. Local reporters for NBC (Mike Owens), CBS (Mike O'Connel), & Fox (Charles Jaco) in St. Louis took great umbrage at this.

[crizzab74]

what a horribly trained staff of morons. "which white house?" "IT DOESN'T MATTER." and then she has the nerve to say "you seem really agitated." people have bad days, don't get me wrong. but do your jobs and behave professionally. as in- give people YOUR NAME when they ask!

[pholcombe]

No angle will make McCain look good. He is a corpse.

[ptownblazer]

"Which White House?" "It doesn't matter." "Oh yes it does." LOL. Bush and McCain are the same damn thing.

[ldl239]

it's disturbing to read the moronic comments here taking the reporters to task. it's about fucking time the press in this country did its job; and its job is not buffing st john the tortured. good for them for standing up to the campaign hacks; which too many of their colleagues failed to do in the previous campaigns.

[marky2112]

For the record, these reporters are some of the nicest, most easygoing people you will ever meet.

[smitty1276]

If they were that nice and easy going, they would say "Of course we'll use an angle you're comfortable with... we aren't here to make you look bad, we just want to ask substantive questions." That doesn't appear to be their interest.

[manicwithmark]

Both were doing their jobs, both came across as jerks. However, journalists are paid to be assholes, so long as good info is the result. The PR for a presidential campaigns are paid to be the OPPOSITE of assholes, while simultaneously protecting the reputation of their candidate, no matter what the truth is. That the PR for McCain now needs PR, well, that's just bad news for McCain's campaign. Maybe those critical of the journalists have been spoiled through 8 years of a kowtowed media.

[clintatl]

The reporters acted incorrectly? PLEASE Thesre women are supposed to represent Senator McCain and they are the ones who come across as unprofessional, secretive, snotty, and dismissive. I guess that is all you can ever expect from Republicans.

[smitty1276]

I also found the undeserved arrogance of these reporters to be quite amusing. I mean, come on... they're REPORTERS. It's not like they are anyone important or intelligent enough to command some sort of respect, and yet they seemed to feel as though they had enough standing to bully the McCain staffers. I really loved the subtle threat, "Do we need to reschedule this interview?", which put the imbecilic journalist in his place.

[leeburl]

Wrong...it's not arrogance, they're journalists, it's their job. If they had bothered to do that in the run up to the Iraq War, we'd been better served.

If you want state run news, then you're in the wrong country.

[smitty1276]

Um, it's not state run news when someone does a reporter a favor and allows them an interview to which they are not entitled. And if you think that allowing a cameraman to use an unflattering view when filming some candidate for an interview prior to the Iraq war would somehow have changed the geopolitical reality at the time, you're deluded and silly. (Of course, I think you probably already know that what you said was silly, but just in case...)

[jsuess029]

If they had questioned the false intelligence, the cost, how the occupation would be managed, etc.,etc,,etc., then people like you would have thought about it a bit more before allowing the wool to be pulled over your eyes....

...hmmmm giving you credit for being able to think is silly. I guess I am silly.

[smitty1276]

Well, conceding the premise for arguments sake, I simply think its silly, at best, to imagine that quibbling over a camera angle equates--even remotely--to any of those things.

[smitty1276]

Wow, those reporters came across as jerks. It's like they thought she was some college intern who they could trick... what moron believes that presidential candidates don't ALWAYS control the way they are portrayed on screen?

[olsonic1]

these women come off like some low level "brand managers" from some ad agency. it and they are so so gross. very sad really. it's like they are trying to get the right shot for some "hot pockets" in an episode of some bad sitcom.

"is there a problem here?" the woman asks...

yes, maam, there is a very serious problem and you're part of it.

[MidnightChimes]

Is Brooke Buchanon related to Bay Buchanon?

Is Nicole Wallace related to Mike Wallace?

[WadeBlazingame34]

McCain has a scary temper, and it looks like all his minions are developing a propensity towards the same irrational temper tantrums.

[marky2112]

Interesting observation. Leaders do set the pace for the organization.

[blair227]

No more years.

[mjensater]

McCain/Cheney 08!

Lets put these libs to rest!

MORE WAR = MORE JOBS!

100 years of the U.S. in Iraq!!

[StunnedByStupidity]

Difficult to tell, clever liberal or clinically insane republican.

If its (b) I'd love to know your score here:

members.shaw(dot)ca/jeanalteme­yer/drbob/chapter1.pdf

page (4 of 44 - at the bottom of the screen).

replace the (dot) with a .

[PoddleBear]

I believe peanut butter is my favorite food.

:-/

[pseudolover]

I would love to see something on the AP's ppl and Karl Rove. Or a mashup of McCain parroting G W Bush about al qaeda/iraq war is easy etc. Remember it was him in 98 who wanted to invade iraq and wasn't he part of the PNAC or a subgroup?