Pfotenhauer on McCain: MSNBC 09/24/08

Nancy Pfotenhauer on John McCain
"MSNBC Live" 11:45am
Interview

TOPIC: McCain campaign, Rick Davis, lobbyists, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, scandal

TRANSCRIPT:
ANDREA MITCHELL: the campaign has come out again today, very aggressively, against "The New York Times." Now, "The New York Times was not alone, it was also "Newsweek" and Roll Call reporting on at least payments made to campaign manager Rick Davis's firm. The campaign, you have pointed out Rick Davis did not lobby, did not take money from the firm, has not been at all involved in anything involving Fannie or Freddie. Can you guarantee the voters, the American people, that even though Rick Davis has not taken any money and you say has not lob lobbied, that he will not sometime in the future benefit from money that has gone to his firm in which he still has a partnership interest?

NANCY PFOTENHAUER: Well, Andrea, you at least are presenting it even handedly. Rick never lobbied for Fannie and Freddie. I don't think they reported the story, I think they engaged in activist journalism thats more of the Huffington Post caliber than certainly should be expected from a major newspaper outlet. The story is that Rick never took any money from Fannie and Freddie, never lobbied for Fannie and Freddie, and John McCain actively fought for reform. Versus Barack Obama who took record amounts of money from Fannie and Freddie and looked the other way on reform. That's the story. And as far as potentially benefiting in the future, the McCain campaign has the highest level of standards ever applied in presidential election history that precludes lobbyist involvement and any potential future benefit. And we've challenged the Obama campaign repeatedly to comply by the same rules and procedures. They won't do it and they won't release their list of advisers, even though they acknowledge there are lobbyists on that list.

LABEL: NP JM MSNBC 09-23-08 11.45 (RAD#280) UWBb

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• McCain
• campaign
• Rick
• Davis
• lobbyists
• Fannie
• Mae
• Freddie
• Mac
• scandal

[angiersj]

I used to live in Ohio and we would joke about the "hickishness" of people in North Virgina. I find it really humorous that this lady is calling North Virgina cosmopolitan extension of DC. My experience is Virginia is cosmopolitan and North virginia was not, not to offend any of you in North Virginia. Just those from north virgnia that i have met.

[formerpub]

Franklin Raines, Tom Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Paul Begala, Barney Frank Chris Dodd, Barrack Obama? THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSWEEK, TIME, POLITICO, NBC, BROKAW, HOLLYWOOD? What do they all have in common? Even warren Buffet sees an investment opportunity in the carcass the democrats have laid out before the world. The carcass the democrats have made of the Us. If there were a republican anywhere in all this they would have had a kangaroo court and shot him, Waxman and Conyers. Libtard Pukes

[formerpub]

Your post is a lie; Or you have no intellectual account. Its one or the other. Go OBAMA! GO AWAY ! And take your ONE WAY CORRUPT PARTY WITH YOU !

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRATIC.

THIS CURRENT DEMOCRAT SEWAGE BEING SPLASHED INTO THE LIVING ROOMS ACROSS THE WORLD IS DEMOCRAT CORRUPTION.

The intellectual dishonesty is TYPICAL ! Even Paul Begala receives a check from Fannie-Mae and he had the audacity to call the President of the United States a moron!Go back to the REDS!

[formerpub]

gored? gopound ssand and tell your friends at the dailykos to pound sand as well, nobody believes your conversion story. I on the other hand voted for Bill Clinton.

I voted for him the first time (92)for reasons of ideological confusion, a mistake. I started paying close attention to all things politics in 1998. Then the shift happened.

It was pointed out to me the level of corruption in the democratic party involving all the top players. CORRUPTION THAT IS EVIDENCED BY THIS DEMOCRAT SCANDAL

[CerezaAmor1987]

rotf. She is paid a hefty coin for it too~

[GoRed2008]

McCain and his campaign are making a political joke of this most important election we are still over a month out from going to the polls. What will the GOP do next fly a commercial airliner into a building?! FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR--- gop will save you. WHAT A JOKE--------- REPUBLICAN FOR OBAMA!

[OBIDEN08]

haha, that ladys so stupud its amazing

[allencrider]

Hmm... haven't seen that liar for a while.

[aumbaapa]

That women is a Spin expert. It's kinda enthralling and disgusting at the same time