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CNN: Palin Talks 2012, McCain Aide "Speechless"
CNN, 10/29/08
Wolf Blitzer: And this just coming into the "Situation Room," the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying, she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012. She was asked what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday, would you simply go back to Alaska? Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her and Palin said this, and I will read it to you verbatim according to an ABC News transcript: Absolutely not, Sarah Palin says. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doin' this for naught, and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now. Let's go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?
Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a huh on the other end of the phone. This is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially future national runs, and she is being urged to by a lot of people inside of the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an if and people inside of the McCain campaign do not want any discussion that has an if in front of it six days before the election, they dont want any discussion at all, any kind of hypothetical talk about running for the next time around. So certainly, this is not at least initially being received well inside of the McCain campaign.
Wolf Blitzer: I am not surprised, not surprised at all. It is one of those wow, she is talking about 2012 if we lose, that is not supposed to be something that you say. You are supposed to say, well, Im not looking ahead, Im not looking ahead only to Tuesday, and those are the talking points shes supposed to be saying, but she is obviously blunt and she is looking ahead if something were to happen on Tuesday that she wouldnt be happy with.
Length: 159
Rating: 4.80 (382 ratings)
Tags: Sarah Palin John McCain 2012 Republicans Speechless
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McCain Aide & DrudgeReport Pushed Volunteer's Mutilation Attack Hoax
John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established -- and even told reporters outright that the "B" carved into the victim's cheek stood for "Barack," according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain's Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, "You're with the McCain campaign? I'm going to teach you a lesson."
Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the "B" stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.
The KDKA reporter had called McCain's campaign office for details after seeing the story -- sans details -- teased on Drudge.
The McCain spokesperson's claims -- which came in the midst of extraordinary and heated conversations late yesterday between the McCain campaign, local TV stations, and the Obama camp, as the early version of the story rocketed around the political world -- is significant because it reveals a McCain official pushing a version of the story that was far more explosive than the available or confirmed facts permitted at the time.
The claims to KDKA from the McCain campaign were included in an early story that ran late yesterday on KDKA's Web site. The paragraphs containing these assertions were quickly removed from the story after the Obama campaign privately complained that KDKA was letting the McCain campaign spin a racially-charged version of the story before the facts had been established, according to two sources familiar with the discussions
Length: 381
Rating: 4.90 (54 ratings)
Tags: attack victim face carved mccain volunteer hoax lie attacked ashley todd racism bigot racist barack obama michelle john sarah palin rush limbaugh fox news bill o'reilly sean hannity keith olbermann arianna huffington the huffingtonpost matt drudge drudgereport hillary clinton view elisabeth hasselbeck democrat republican conservative malkin ann coulter dailykos glenn beck jon stewart daily show stephen colbert report laura ingraham rachel maddow
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FOX News & Obama Aide Engage In Heated Exchange
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/10/27/172715/86
Obama Cornering Fox News
by Josh Orton, Mon Oct 27, 2008 at 05:27:15 PM EST
A couple weeks ago, I listed three examples of either Obama or his surrogates explicitly calling out Fox News for their blatant conservative bias. Obama himself told the New York Times that Fox's disinformation is likely costing him a couple points in the polls.
Today, Obama's campaign stepped up their pushback to Fox News: in response to McCain's latest lie about "spreading the wealth," spokesman Bill Burton called out the biased messenger right along with the dishonest message:
"This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months. In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all. Americans know that the real choice in this election is between four more years of Bush-McCain policies that redistribute billions to billionaires and big corporations and Barack Obama's plan to help the middle class by giving tax relief to 95% of workers and companies that create new jobs here in America. That's the change we need, and no amount of eleventh-hour distractions from the McCain campaign will change that," said Obama-Biden campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
We've come a long way. Back in 2007, when Obama dropped out of the Fox news debate, the only reason given was that CNN seemed a more "appropriate venue."
Now that McCain's resorted exclusively to attacks on Obama, the go-to mouthpiece for Republican smears is working overtime. The more they're called out for their bias, the less credibility they'll have to push lies.
Fox isn't news. And as we (potentially) head into a new Democratic administration, it's crucial we make clear that what they broadcast can't be trusted. Great to see Obama continuing this fight.
Length: 420
Rating: 4.50 (119 ratings)
Tags: josh orton aide barack obama michelle john mccain sarah palin rush limbaugh michael savage fox news bill o'reilly sean hannity keith olbermann arianna huffington the huffingtonpost matt drudge drudgereport hillary clinton view elisabeth hasselbeck democrat republican conservative liberal malkin ann coulter dailykos thesexypatriot jon stewart daily show stephen colbert report snl saturday night live laura ingraham rachel maddow
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Obama video that the McCain aide made and got fired for
I believe the guy who made this video is named Nathan Hale.
Like the complete wuss McCain is driven to be in this campaign by his advisers he got rid of Hale for making this excellent video on Obama and his wife Michelle along with his obviously racist and bigoted pastor Jeremiah Wright Jr.
"God damn America!!" --Jeremiah Wright Jr
Length: 159
Rating: 3.70 (1130 ratings)
Tags: barack hussein obama jeremiah wright hillary clinton michelle jr bill john mccain nathan hale aide campaign
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Palin aide's phone call pushing for Wooten firing
On February 29, 2008 Sarah Palin's aide, Frank Bailey, called an Alaska state trooper pushing for the Commissioner, Walt Monegan, to fire Mike Wooten, who is the ex-husband of Palin's sister. This video provides the original audio of the phone call with a transcript.
Original 24 minute phone call available at http://community.adn.com/plain/node/129005
Length: 244
Rating: 4.70 (14 ratings)
Tags: Sarah Palin trooper troopergate Frank Bailey phone call fire Mike Wooten Walt Monegan cop police ethic investigation
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