McCain Complains About the Media

Uh oh…somebody better call a waaaaahhhhmbulance!

Yeah, complaining about the media never comes off well. Even for those who haven’t received as much love from the media over the years as McCain has (remember, he calls them his base!), it quickly sounds like whining.

I disagree. I challenge ABC and all other media outlets to give McCain 24/7 coverage.
McCain’s gaffe’s and flip-flops are being largely ignored.
For example, last week in a visit to the GM Tech Center here in Detroit, McCain advocated state regulated car emissions (a virtual death knell to Detroit automakers) after being for Federally regulated emission standards.
The Detroit newspapers are all over this flip-flop, quoting one auto exec as saying “Michigan should be a competitive state for him, but it almost feels like he’s doing what he can to lose it”.
Combine that with the fact that McCain comes to Michigan to promote NAFTA and CAFTA, and it makes you wonder, who is writing McCain’s message?
So cover McCain all you can, the results will be truly telling!

That is just sad.Sounds like a two year old.

“McCain once jokingly referred to the political press corps as “my base.”
And today he’s whining, sounds like a couple in the middle of a break up, doesn’t it? Nothing sadder than an old man dumped by his sweetheart.

Whining is just another sign of old age……
People need to stop and realize he is 72 years old and will be 76 in 4 more years and 80 if he stays for 8 years…..sorry with all the mistakes he is already making, we cannot afford to take that chance.

I would have done a video for him…oooh
but casting John Mccain…hmmm…
… jack lemmon? gone walter matthau? gone …uhm … ah…
what’s Mickey Rooney doing?
Oh I know who can play McCain that’s still alive…
get me Estelle Getty!
what do you mean she just passed away..

The great irony of this all is the left would love to see McCain get wall to wall coverage. Most on the left think he’s a gaffe machine and his policies are not defined and full of conflicts. John McCain will only win this election if he skates by under the radar while the media hover mercilessly over Obama waiting for that one gaffe that sinks him. Please cover McCain relentlessly. He will self destruct.

and Jeremy is right…Mccain’s speech in Maine alone was sooo bad. He ought to be glad they aren’t on him with a camera picking up everything he is saying…it’s all really bad…laughable that he is worse than my father would be talkign about these same things.

My dear father bless his heart turned 76 and can not remember how to set his clocks anymore. He is also showing signs of being irrational and very angry. I sure hope if McCain becomes President he will be in better shape at the start of his second term which is when he turns 76.

funny thing is McCain had all that time to plan and build up a strategy to counteract this…
This the guy who was the media darling for 8 years…and who didn’t have to spend his time …
He didn’t come up with asking the anchors to follow him when he went to Iraq…
he then pushes Obama to take this tour…and it comes back to bite him in the butt…
the problem is the media knows what the crowds are going to be like in europe and our ally nations (remember 5 to 1 are the polls on people in our ally nations and picking obama over Mccain)
He should have known how newsworthy this was going to be…
dumb da dumb dumb dumb.
He doesn’t have a plan for anything never mind his campaign’s PR.

Of course John Mccain will use 85 plus million of tax payers dollars for his smear campaign against Obama.
i guess he is a senator and chuck hagel is with him , i guess members of congress do go overseas.
i might be making a fuss over nothing.

The media is unfair to Hillary and McCain. Every time I turn on TV or go to all the network websites, I see the headline about Obama. The media wants Obama to become the president without vetting him. Media should not favor any candidate and investigate the candidate’s background and etc.. I don’t trust media anymore,

No jane Hussein
that was me lol…
it really wasn’t but I could care less about the moron stealing my name…I actually did love Mccain…still do …(that’s why I go see him whenever he speaks in my area)
but would he be a really bad President compared to Sen Obama…yeah.
Most of the people on here have not seen them both speak and answer questions q and a …Obama was hands down the smartst guy of the candidates outside Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.
McCain’s a good guy who you forgive his “lack of awareness” like you do your kind of losing it grandfather.

Jane I think that was the best Mccain could do over the weekend and at the Maine event which was kind of pathetic.
It is either that or they don’t want a speech like the one he gave in Maine amplified.

of course we cant confuse the primary with the general election , even hillary and bill is rippin the neo-cons and McCain, The clintons are just happy that that another bush will NOT get elected

McCain is whining a lot the last couple of days.

It is not appropriate for Obama, a Presidential candidate, to be discussing negotiations and war strategy with the Iraq government and then sharing those conversations with the world press. Obama is NOT the President of the United States at this time. This is overstepping the bounds, and possible a security issue for America.

dl,
I agree, I used to like McCain too> I thought he was a straight shooter who told the truth. I don’t know who this guy is and I find it sad. Looking at the field of candidates last summer, I thought Obama would be crushed by the Clinton machine, Clinton would be crushed by the GOP machine and if McCain won, I could live with that. But he has changed each and every position that I found compelling.
As a former employee at the GM Tech Center I was able to get an invite to the closed door speech and brough along my 18 year old son who is a McCain supporter (little brat, LOL). We laughed all the way home. It was awful. My son kept saying “Wow, that was painful to watch”. He says he will still vote McCain as long as the doesn’t have to watch him speak again.
I told him I will be torturing him further by making him watch the debates, LOL!

len: said
Obama used taxpayer dollars for a campaign trip and the press is very close to a statutory violation of Section 315 meaning when it comes time to review their FCC licensing, the public will have a legitimate complaint.
len:
Who are we able to complain to. Obama and most black churches have been violating campaign laws for Obama since this election started .
Most of the donations Obama gets is bundled money from Black Churches
No and i am not racist like the MEDIA tried to say Bill Clinton was and anybody who supported Clinton was.

Great video. This video should be aired prime time tv aimed at Clinton Democrats
The title of the Video should be “Remember What the Media did to Clinton during her campaign against Obama”
Democrats will remember in the voting booth to vote for President John McCain

This ridiculous ad is going to backfire on McSame, big time!
Voters still on the fence will be thinking, “Shouldn’t I be backing the winner, the guy everyone likes?”
Odd how they leave out Chris Matthews’ telling McBush “You’re in my heart, Senator!”

McCain = Summer re-runs {yawn}

Get use to President John McCain the Commander in Chief of all Armed forces.
Lets what the media did to Bill Clinton making him into a Racist

Last night on CNN Obama was getting pummeled by David Gergen and Gloria Borger (both libs who support Obama) at his presumptiousness in revealing strategies he discussed with leaders.
David Gergen, who usually praises Obama to the hilt was really disgusted.
Obama’s arrogance knows no bounds. It is just one of the things that will cause him to lose the election. Yeeeehaw!!

maybe when McCain’s close friend and associate (and main economic advisor even now) referred to ‘whinners’ he meant McCain. Add that to his Guiliani-sounding rhetoric (a noun, a verb, and 911) (along with fear-mongering tactics of Rove/Bush/Cheney) and his major flubs on his area of expertise – (doesn’t know the boundaries of Pakistan, difference between Sunni or Shia, Somalia or Sudan, the name of the Czech Republic) – it all adds up to ‘loser’.

Every four years the liberal media does their cheerleading for their democrat candidate. And every four years they forget how it backfired in the previous election.
They’re doing it again. Never underestimate the idiocy of the media. But hey, my guy always wins, so I hope the media keeps it up!
Yeeehaw! History repeats itself.

Jane,
Nice try but you didn’t see the show. Gergen was disgusted, it was written all over his face. I reran it (tivo) just to see him get disgusted all over again.
Nice try though, but you lose.
Next.

Obama is another Carter, and we all remember the Carter years. No thanks.
McCain will make a great president. One we can all trust.
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OK lets play this little game , if Obama is carter then MCian is Bush
lets see under BUSH we waste trillions of dollars on a unnecessary war and RUIN oour Economy.
The country have lost JOBS at record pace and people are losing their homes like no time before.
Gas prices are thru the ROOF , many people praying not to get sick because they dont have any universal heathcare and the republicans have no plan to change things.
Our roads and bridges are crumbling and they dont want to help states fix that.
And lets not talk about the environment where i can see myself in the day with all the pollution its like a fog .
THIS NEVER HAPPEN UNDER JIMMY CARTER at this POINT.. the people will take 2 JIMMY CARTERS.
The current Bush policies are a HORROR SHOW.

Jo wrote:
Jane,
Nice try but you didn’t see the show.
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Yea, I did. Now YOU may read disgust into his response. Maybe you saw him flirting with you, I don’t know, but he looked puzzled at best.
But hey, they are your delusions, so have at ‘em!

Hey could anyone tell me if Obama ever got that “bump” in the polls after Hillary pulled out? Why is B. Hussein only 3 points ahead in the polls when the Dems were supposed to have this in the bag? Looks like the liberal media may be in the tank for Obama (all channels except Fox, the #1 news channel with triple the ratings of others), BUT SMART AMERICANS KNOW TO GO TO THE VOTING BOOTH AND VOTE CENTRIST, OR RIGHT OF CENTER…..HISTORICALLY LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO……NEVER LIBERAL, AND BO IS THE MOST LIBERAL CANDIDATE IN OUR COUNTRYS HISTORY.
McCAIN ’08/HILLARY ’12

Obama is acting like a President and McCain is acting like a spoiled kid trying to get more attention.

I actually found the video quite amusing. It tried to poke fun in a comical way. It wasn’t McCain or whoever sitting there complaining or whining nonstop.
I found it very effective. Can’t see how anyone would see otherwise. And I find it strange you call it “complaining.”

Who would you want to cover?
An exciting, charismatic young man who has energized millions to vote. Oh yeah, and he happens to be making history because he’s black.
Or, another old white guy in a suite, who’s boring, no charisma without any knowledge of modern technology while the same old things while doing nothing different.
It’ a no brainer.
POTUS OBAMA – ITS INEVITABLE

If McCain wants more attention from the media, then WHY does he agree to the AARP tour this past weekend? His campaign had him eating a corndog, going to a baseball game and going to a picnic. Who makes up his schedule? David Letterman?

I haven’t heard McCain complain….this is the campaign and all the country who knows the liberal media is trying to coronate this questionable newbie. Pretty sad though, that Fox is the only fair and balanced news out there. I guess that explains their ratings tripling their competitors. Most of America IS right of center….NOT LIBERAL. Why don’t Dems get that….they only win elections with centrist candidates….McCain ’08/Hillary ’12

McGrumpa is getting McSourGrape!!

Maybe Debra can explain to us why America, which according to HER is sooooo “conservative” doesn’t seem to interested in Republicans this year?
Could it be that Americans are savvy enough to not be fooled by the same con-artists twice?

Those complaining about McCain saying something are wrong and socialists them selves.
What is wrong about complaining about the media? Why they are doing is borderline illegal, the NYT’s refusal was illegal, equal time they are to give to candidates,
But then again the main stream media is collapsing.
Comeon NBC is owned by moveon.org, the parent company GE trades with Iran who is attracking our troops, MSNBC get feelings up their legs when Obama speaks.
Obama no substance !!

The fourth estate is D E A D!
When I was growing up, the FREE Press was revered AND DEPENDED ON for fair, untarnished news.
Views were separated from fact by
by-lines and editorials and columns….. but 95 percent of the news itself was unvarnished and un-opinionated.
The New York Times used to be one of the beacons of free press….
Now it is a political parody of it’s former self…. and handmaiden to the political pot previously known as the Democratic party…. (which is no longer democratic)!
Instead of enlightening us, the press is strong-arming us by selecting and providing us with only the news it WANTS us to have.
It’s goal is the continued force-feeding of Obama as the candidate of choice…. and it has already succeeding in it’s press (or lack of same) in the defeat of Hillary .
In denying our unalienable right to information, I feel the Fourth Estate has left our country in a deep hole from which it will take many years to climb out…. if ever.
This is a change we can ill afford.
Even if the NEWS is not what we might want to hear…. it should be available to us.
It reminds me too much of the thirties…..

cncyr:
MCCain wasn’t whining…… he was
justifiably COMPLAINING about his competition receiving “fawning media coverage “. and then being denied fair and equal time!!!!!
If you were running for office and you were treated equally unfairly AS WAS HILLARY CLINTON, needless to say, you would be equally perturbed!
As would I!

McCain needs to dry up his tears and stop making so many gaffes. They get him plenty of media attention. What does he want for nothing, his money back?

Jane—you still online? Let’s start some good conversation.

Gaffes Happen has become the official teeshirt of the McCain campaign and they may come to regret ‘whining’ for more news coverage.
Politicians put their foot in their mouth on a regular basis. Sometimes it may be the result of long hours on the campaign trail, sometimes because they simply can’t keep their facts straight and sometimes because they can’t keep their lies straight. Sometimes it’s simply because they do not understand the facts.
Per President Bush and Col. MacFarland, the Anbar awakening was already well under way through organized efforts by the tribal leaders well before the surge began. These events took place months before the surge was even announced. Per McCain, the surge ‘began’ the Anbar awakening.
McCain also neglects the fact that although the surge helped to support an awakening already in progress, the new troops headed for Baghdad, not Anbar. He also gives little credit to the ongoing Sadr truce.
The Couric interview gets even more interesting as McCain tries to distance himself from the numerous failed Iraq policies under the Bush administration:
“McCain: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world.”
Why would McCain support a president responsible for four years of failure?
“no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.” [John McCain, 03/28/08)
“The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.” [John McCain, 06/19/05]
“I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq.” [John McCain, upon receiving endorsement from President Bush, 02/13/08]
Gaffes and old quotes are a living history of our thought processes, how well we think, what we think and when we think it. Even Carly can’t change that fact:
“To say that John McCain was aligned with President Bush on the prosecution of the war in Iraq is to change history.” [Carly Fiorina, McCain Campaign Advisor, 07/13/08]
The McCain campaign should be thankful the media has let them slide on many major issues, such as his voting record on veteran health issues and successful effort to shut down all investigation into remaining POW/MIA over the protests of their families and veteran groups in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his father-in-law immediately opened up a multi-billion dollar beer industry there).
McCain has been given no media coverage on the very real probability he suffers from PTSD.
“Among U.S. servicemen taken captive during the Korean War, as many as nine out of 10 survivors may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders more than 35 years after their release, psychologist Patricia B. Sutker of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Medical Center and her colleagues report in the January AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY.”
Perhaps McCain should quit whining about media coverage and not look a gift horse in the mouth.