Corporate Media in tank for McCain, but McCain protests that tank isn't deep enough!

[FrenchieCat]

John McCain has been whining that the Press wasn't paying attention to them....even though the press has been kissing John McCain's ass since the year 2000.

Now it appears that the Press should not only allow John McCain and his surrogates to lie without being questioned, but now, McCain doesn't want any Obama campaign talking points to be brought up in any way. They are going after NBC about this, because I guess that everyone else is toeing the line that McCain's campaign has drawn in the sand.

It appears that having Obama trashed constantly by Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC (MSNBC only trashes from 5:00 a.m. in the morning till Countdown comes on) is simply not enough Obama bashing!

Here the whiny letter from the manipulative and lying McCain campaign:

August 17, 2008
Mr. Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Steve:

We are extremely disappointed to see that the level of objectivity at NBC News has fallen so low that reporters are now giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims in order to undercut John McCain. :cry:

Nowhere was this more evident than with NBC chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell's comments on "Meet the Press" this morning. In analyzing last night's presidential forum at Saddleback Church, Mitchell expressed the Obama campaign spin that John McCain could only have done so well last night because he "may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama." Here are Andrea Mitchell's comments in full:

Mitchell: "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 8/17/08)

Make no mistake: This is a serious charge. Andrea Mitchell is repeating, uncritically, a completely unsubstantiated Obama campaign claim that John McCain somehow cheated in last night's forum at Saddleback Church. Instead of trying to substantiate this blatant falsehood in any way, Andrea Mitchell felt that she needed to repeat it on air to millions of "Meet the Press" viewers with no indication that 1.) There's not one shred of evidence that it's true; 2.) In his official correspondence to both campaigns, Pastor Rick Warren provided both candidates with information regarding the topic areas to be covered, which Barack Obama acknowledged during the forum when asked about Pastor Warren's idea of an emergency plan for orphans and Obama said, "I cheated a little bit. I actually looked at this idea ahead of time, and I think it is a great idea;" 3.) John McCain actually requested that he and Barack Obama do the forum together on stage at the same time, making these kinds of after-the-fact complaints moot. :cry:

Indeed, instead of taking a critical journalistic approach to this spin, Andrea Mitchell did what has become a pattern for her of simply repeating Obama campaign talking points. :cry:

This is irresponsible journalism and sadly, indicative of the level of objectivity we have witnessed at NBC News this election cycle. Instead of examining the Obama campaign's spin for truth before reporting it to more than 3 million NBC News viewers, Andrea Mitchell simply passed along Obama campaign conspiracy theories. The fact is that during Senator Obama's segment at Saddleback last night, Senator McCain was in a motorcade to the event and then held in a green room with no broadcast feed. In the forum, John McCain clearly demonstrated to the American people that he is prepared to be our next President..... :cry:

We are concerned that your News Division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race. We would like to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC. :cry:

Sincerely,

Rick Davis
Campaign Manager
John McCain 2008
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/08/18/mccain-campaign-protests-nbc-over-mitchells-cheating-claim

[liberalmuse]

1. Oh, that's just...

:cry:

[FrenchieCat]

4. The Corsi book must not be doing "well".......

[mrs_p]

2. this is a reflection of how he will govern

he's a fascist who will shut down any question or dissent...

[FrenchieCat]

3. Aye!

As scary as Bush. Guess that's why he is McBush!

[Youphemism]

5. Notice they didn't say that he was incommunicado...

...Limosine televisions and blackberries sending him notes on questions and answers -- they were careful not to suggest that he wasn't provided with these things -- just no broadcasts into the green room.

It seems pretty likely that he had something like this to anyone who's seen how he performs off-the-cuff usually. I'm sure that's exactly what led to Andrea Mitchell's speculation, because she knows he was speaking above his usual abilities.

The good thing is, this is the last time he'll have that home turf advantage. And with all that going for him, even the Fox "news" crew was saying before McCain came out that Obama had set the bar pretty high with his answers. (I tuned in late and Fox was the only one playing the debate at the time, in case you're wondering.)

I expect McCain to get spanked and look feeble in the real debates.

[Diane R]

6. It looks bad to complain about a report that turned out to be true...he DID cheat.

[ErinBerin84]

7. touchy, touchy . I wonder WHY...

Lack of Cone-gate! Haha.

Do they seriously think that MSNBC and NBC give McCain a raw deal? Seriously? Actually, they probably do. They probably sit around on the straight talk express whining about the "liberal media bias". Do they have any CONCEPT of what poor press treatment is like? I bet that this also has to do with Andrea Mitchell and Rick Davis' terse phone call from a couple of weeks ago. Andrea Mitchell is bad a lot of the time, but she doesn't deserve this bullshit for the few times she has been good, and she's been better recently. I hope that she just says FUCK YOU, but I fear that NBC will just cave and start ignoring McCain's eff ups even MORE...if that's possible. I hope that Keith covers this tomorrow, like he covered the White House letter to NBC recently. Further more, Andrea attributed it to OBAMA people, whatever that means...she should really distinguish between the campaign and supporters, bc she is trying to make it sound as if Obama did so incredibly sucky in that forum and I'm not sure if she means his "campaign". Yet, that's their idea of "biased treatment". :rofl:

[MagickMuffin]

8. Did the "great big mavrick" get his wittle feelings hurt?.?.? poor poor baby

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Do they really expect ALL the snoozemedia to cave in to them ALL the time?.?.?


If I remember correctly McLameO calls the presswhores HIS base.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Yes, they expect the media to trash Obama for them, and defend McCain at all times!

McCain playing the POW cards from the bottom and top and middle of the deck. The entire deck are POW cards!