FOX Admits McCain Stacked "Town Hall" With Supporters »
Posted By expursuit 4 months ago in NewsShepard Smith 'fesses up: I reported at the top of this hour that the campaign had told us at Fox News that the audience would be made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We have now received a clarification from the campaign and I feel I should pass it along to you. The McCain campaign distributed tickets to supporters, Mayor Bloomber
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ybdogsct4 months ago
John McCain insists he does not represent a continuation of Bush's failed policies, yet at every turn, McCain's own actions contradict his words.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/marko...
"While Kerry's events are open to the public, Bush's affairs require the signing of a 'loyalty oath.' Bush faces only adoring audiences vetted by the campaign's enforcers. Questions are planted for maximum political effect. At one, a veteran merely got up and requested permission to salute his commander in chief."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10...
"The soldiers were told in advance the questions Bush would ask. Reporters overheard Allison Barber, asking one soldier: 'Who are we going to give that (question) to?' White House spokesman Scott McClellan bristled when reporters pressed him later on the staging."
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ybdogsct4 months ago
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153720,00.html
"The unceremonious ouster of three people from a recent White House Social Security event in Colorado has critics wondering how far President Bush will go to ensure friendly, sympathetic audiences at his town hall-style forums and rallies."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172262,00.html
"Some critics said the video conference was staged, referring to an on-camera shot of a Pentagon official shown coaching the soldiers. Some senior Pentagon officials told FOX News that they are angry that soldiers were coached at all before the video conference went live. The questions pitched to the troops by Bush were choreographed on the president's goals for the war in Iraq and the upcoming vote this weekend on a new Iraqi constitution. Privately, at least one senior military commander told FOX News that he's outraged by the way the young soldiers were coached."
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Goppy3 months, 4 weeks ago
I wisht you Libbies could understand us Christian Conservatives support for Republicans.
I really do.
See, to us ... it's all bout 'The End Justifies the Means'. We are so desirous of 'Saving' America that we are willin to abide any 'seeming miscalculation'.
Liek when Tommy Delay forced poeple to PAY for Goverment access ... and PUNISHIN em for any associations with Democrats.
Liek when Karl Rove sought to oust (or even imprison) Attorneys General if they dint aggressively pursue political witch-hunts.
Or liek GW lyin to plunge our nation into a depraved war.
Or for that matter, Johnny McCain's lifetime of philanderin.
We sincerely believe that in the end ... you will all be happier when our Solid Christian Values Stamp is ALL OVER this nation.
Although ... I agree that our methods and the results of our efforts bespeak a horror in such obvious contrast to our stated goals ... even I have doubts bout why Americans still buy our rhetoric.
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Lurch3 months, 4 weeks ago
Here is John McCain now, trying to distance himself by complaining about Bush reaction to Katrina:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/0...
Here was McCain on the day of Katrina:
http://www.culturekitchen.com/comment/reply/12322
McCain was for elitists before he was against them.
Or, was he against the working class before he was for them?
John McConfusion.
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ybdogsct4 months ago
You want to compare Obama's transparency to McCain's? Fine. If you have evidence of Obama planting audience members, now is the time to post it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10871...
"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is moving on two fronts to make transparency a linchpin of his campaign, opening his fundraisers to reporters and clamping down on the Democratic National Committee's fundraising from Washington insiders. His likely opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), closes his fundraisers to the press and accepts money from lobbyists."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10599...
"President Bush is scaling back next week's fundraising swings for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the request of the McCain campaign, which wants the events closed to the press. This demonstrates McCain's delicate effort to find the balance between embracing an unpopular president and taking advantage of his huge continuing draw with well-heeled Republicans."
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ybdogsct4 months ago
McCain circumvents the campaign finance reform legislation HE AUTHORED.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/19/new-mc...
"John McCain's campaign has devised a new system to increase the maximum amount an individual can donate to his campaign. The idea is to tap donors for more than the $2,300 limit set by campaign finance laws. Under legislation pushed by McCain in his role as a senator from Arizona, an individual can donate a maximum of $2,300 to a presidential primary campaign and the same amount to the general election campaign.
Campaign manager Rick Davis released the details of the 'McCain Victory 08' fund on Friday. He said the entity is a joint committee, combining the McCain campaign, the Republican National Committee and four key states under a 'hybrid legal structure.' The new structure allows up to $70,000 in individual contributions by channeling the money into different McCain-centric funds."
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ybdogsct4 months ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/21/mccain...
"The RNC Skirts Intention of Public Financing: McCain's new fund structure will allow the McCain camp to collect significantly more money than the $2,300 individual limit placed by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/28...
"Sen. John McCain, who championed a law imposing strict new political contribution limits, is appearing at fundraisers nationwide where donors can give up to $70,100 each to help him win the presidency through a group set up jointly by his campaign and the Republican Party. This tactic exposes how easy it is to raise money from donors even if they already have given the maximum amount of $2300 to the presidential campaigns allowed under a law that Mr. McCain helped enact."
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ybdogsct4 months ago
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/05/mccain_myth_...
"John McCain says "[e]thics and transparency are not election year buzz words; they are the obligations of democracy and the duties of honorable public service." Yet his top campaign advisors have no problem lying about their lobbying records. Their excuse? Americans don't care--something McCain has yet to say if he agrees with.
Charlie Black told reporters, according to the Wall Street Journal, that he complied with the new campaign ethics rules 'before there even was a rule' even though his lobbying firm offers corporate interests and foreign governments the promise of access to the most powerful lawmakers. Some of those companies have interests in the Commerce Committee, of which McCain is a member.
When asked if he agreed with Black's assessment, McCain refused to directly answer the question.
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ybdogsct4 months ago
Thomas Loeffler, a Texan who is among the McCain campaign's most important advisers and fundraisers, last month told a reporter 'at no time have I discussed my clients with John McCain.' But lobbying disclosure records reviewed by NEWSWEEK show that on May 17, 2006, Loeffler listed meeting McCain along with the Saudi ambassador to 'discuss US-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia relations. Loeffler only resigned after media reports discovered 'lobbying entanglements.' It's at least the fifth lobbying-related departure from the campaign in a week."
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Spadecaller4 months ago
codi6934
Are you really that oblivious or just devious?
You are Comparing apples to oranges. Lying about the venue and the nature of the presentation is quite different. Do you also lack the objectivity and personal integrity to admit that? Instead you prefer to smear Obama for something he has not done.
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PsychoHosebeast3 months, 4 weeks ago
...you're apparently thinking with your ass there, sarge. First, we're talking about McCain, so try and stick with us. What's next, are you going to bring up Clinton getting blown? Might I ask how many times it's been discovered that Obama did this--after making the open claim that it was an unbiased audience?
Oh yeah--NONE. You must've been the pride of the Army with logic like yours.
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libsRfunny4 months ago
I thought you libs didn't believe anything Fox News reported?
As far as issuing tickets to supporters .. guess what .. ALL politicians do that. Obama's audience of dead veterans during his Memorial Day speech in which he lied about his great uncle liberating Poland and Auschwitz was packed full of invited "guests."
Also, it the story does not say the townhall meeting excluded Democrats and others. Only that they sent tickets to supporters, Bloomberg and independents. A common practice throughout politics.
You libs will do anything to try to smear a Republican, no matter how stupid you look doing it.
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CRYMTYPHON3 months, 4 weeks ago
It CAN be impressive, libs, when someone has the courage to throw out any shame; to openly hoist the jolly-roger and declare themselves a pirate against truth.
But you need serious cannon-fodder or you look ridiculous.
You repeatedly babble about how Obama claims his uncle 'liberated poland', because on Memorial day Obama praised his veteran uncle and confused Auschwitz with Buchenwald.
It's weak.
"You libs will do anything to try to smear a Republican, no matter how stupid you look doing it. "
Sorry, it ain't us.
It what you are saying that is making you look stupid.
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Lurch3 months, 4 weeks ago
>You libs will do anything to try to smear a Republican, no matter how stupid you look doing it.
No libs, you cons are just smearing yourselves here. Libs/Dems had nothing to do with this. You guys are doing a tremendous job making yourselves look like lemmings, and your guy is doing a tremendous job all on his own making himself look completely unprepared and incapable of being the president.
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