Ben Smith notes that with McCain's press corps eager to ask some followup questions about McCain (a) not knowing when the surge happened, and (b) accusing Barack Obama of seeking to deliberately lose wars for political gain his campaign decided to cancel his press availability. What Smith doesn't note is that this cancellation comes hot on the heels of 48 hours worth of non-stop whining about how the press is paying too much attention to Obama's trip and ought to focus more on McCain.
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Gotta Get Away From Me
23 Jul 2008 11:45 am
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Yes... watch out for what you ask for.
Frankly, I think the McCain camp is a mess... Why ask for coverage just when the Obama camp needs a breather and is on top? Sure, things are going well for Obama, but this is a long campaign, and no candidate can survive this kind of withering scrutiny. Heck, McCain lasted maybe 8 hours before he had to cancel his press availability!
Also, Ambinder says it was the only press availability scheduled this week.
I'd say even the reporters who love McCain can see that this is total bullshit.
If the press would just dedicate itself to 48 hours' worth of copious, lavish, pro-McCain coverage, Senator McCain will consider coming out of his room and downstairs to have dessert with the family.
They're just taking time to figure out how to spin it. They know it doesn't look good (either comment).
Me, I mysteriously couldn't get a message to CBS this morning.
Boy, who knew Media Man's love affair with St. McCain would come back to haunt him?
Run away! Run away!
But seriously, folks, Joe Scarborough was trying to blame McCain's self-destruction on us bloggers "who don't know the facts on the ground." Says the Surge is why the Awakening succeeded.
Dumbass apparently doesn't know that the Surge could keep the leaders of the Awakening from being assassinated, so I guess it's Joe "dead intern under my desk" Scarborough who doesn't know the facts on the ground.
There's our "liberal media"!
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I'm just curious as to how Obama's going to lose this war before he gets elected.
McCain gets his biggest break yet of Obama's trip: Hurricane Dolly.
At least on MSNBC. When given a choice between natural or human disaster carried live (breaking news) and actual news, they always choose the former.
Yesterday some guy fell 40 feet down a 16" wide pipe.
Note to those wanting to make the news via local affiliate: do it before 4pm Eastern time.
I'm just curious as to how Obama's going to lose this war before he gets elected.
By screwing a "whitey" intern on a burning American flag while black convicts get out of jail and perform abortions on gay whales ... in Arabic.
Or something.
Whatever it takes to scare the hicks into voting for more failure.
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And, in other news, Bob Novak bounces a pedestrian off of his windshield, drives away, tries to evade concerned bystanders several times, and then pretends he never saw the guy he hit.
As he traveled east on K. Street, crossing 18th, Bono said a "black Corvette convertible with top closed plowed into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed onto the windshield.”Bono said the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a "Walk" signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and then Novak made a right into the service lane of K Street. “The car is speeding away. What’s going through my mind is, you just can’t hit a pedestrian and drive away,” Bono said.
He chased Novak half a block down K St., finally caught up with him and then put his bike in front of the car to block him and called 911. Traffic immediately backed up, horns blared, and commuters finally went into reverse to allow Novak to pull over.
Bono said that throughout, Novak "keeps trying to get away. He keeps trying to go.” He said he vaguely recognized the longtime political reporter and columnist as a Washington celebrity but could not precisely place him.
Finally, Novak put his head out the window of his car and motioned him over. Bono said he told him that you can't hit a pedestrian and just drive away. He said Novak responded: “I didn’t see him there.”
Uh-huh.
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Cancelling his availability is really going to hurt McCain. His availability is a big part of why the media love him. And it functions as a positive feedback loop. Provide availability, get positive coverage that covers up all your slips during that time. But if the slips are too big to be covered up and the cycle is broken, pretty soon we are actually hearing about all the crazy things McCain says on the nightly news and the old man is toast in the fall.
Cancelling his availability is really going to hurt McCain.
Worse than the self-inflicted wounds pouring out of his mouth? I think somebody in his campaign is pulling back hard on the maverick's reigns before he completely self destructs.
Sooo . . .
What's the line on someone else getting the GOP nomination in St. Paul? If the recent past is prologue, by the end of August McCain's numbers are gonna be hugging Bush's almost as tightly as McCain himself hugs Bush.
Either the McCain camp gets it's act together or the GOP finds a pretext to put someone else (Romney? Gingrich?) on the ticket. Or they sit back, accept the loss, and work to mau-mau the Obama administration at every turn.
Wake me when Obama takes any questions from the press. As much as I dislike McCain, at least he doesn't demonstrate raw fear towards unscripted encounters.
You asleep yesterday, James? Obama gave a press conference in Amman. His first question was a 3-minute rant from Andrea Mitchell.
One press conference in how long? How many questions did he take?
Robertson, you're a retard.
None the less, everybody assuming McCain is going to self-destruct before November still doesn't realize that it doesn't matter. The Powers That Be have decided McCain is going to be President. The Iran war will ensure that.
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Heads in the Sand
"Senator McCain, the press is revolting!"
"You said it. They stink on ice!"
Posted by DTM | July 23, 2008 11:56 AM