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Despite evidence to the contrary, NY Times asserted as fact that McCain had "suspend[ed] his campaign"


In a September 26 front-page New York Times article, Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller wrote: "In suspending his campaign, Mr. McCain declared that he would not attend the debate unless a deal was worked out." In asserting as fact that Sen. John McCain had "suspend[ed] his campaign," Nagourney and Bumiller did not mention the McCain campaign surrogates who continued to appear on television throughout the day on September 25 attacking Sen. Barack Obama, or the McCain campaign ads that continued to run on television. Nor did they give any indication that they had attempted to determine if the campaign had actually ceased state and local operations; according to reporter Sam Stein, The Huffington Post "called up 15 McCain-Palin and McCain Victory Committee headquarters in various battleground states. Not one said that it was temporarily halting operations because of the supposed 'suspension' in the campaign." In addition, several other media outlets uncritically reported that McCain announced he was "suspending his campaign" without noting facts that cast that in doubt: In a September 26 Washington Post article, Anne E. Kornblut and Robert Barnes wrote: The tumultuous events of the past few days suggest that McCain's ambivalence toward debating persists. The fate of the first presidential debate, scheduled for tonight in Oxford, Miss., has been up in the air since Wednesday, when McCain announced he would suspend his campaign to attend to the financial crisis -- and sought to delay the face-off. In a September 26 Associated Press article, Jennifer Loven and Julie Hirschfeld Davis wrote: McCain, who dramatically announced Wednesday that he was suspending his campaign to deal with the economic crisis, stayed silent for most of the session and spoke only briefly to voice general principles for a rescue plan. In a September 26 article in the Chicago Tribune, Mark Silva and Naftali Bendavid wrote: The candidates were setting aside their campaigns and jetting to D.C. -- McCain had announced dramatically that he was "suspending" his and might stay away from Friday's candidate debate -- ostensibly because they were needed to help craft a bailout plan. Yet word of a tentative deal among legislative leaders was broadcast on cable news while Obama was still in flight. In another September 26 article in the Chicago Tribune, James Oliphant wrote: Dodd and other Democrats blamed McCain, who vowed to suspend his campaign and skip Friday night's scheduled presidential debate until a bipartisan deal is reached. McCain spent much of the day talking on the Hill with Republicans, including some architects of the new proposal. By contrast, other articles in The Washington Post and from The Associated Press, as well as The Los Angeles Times, reported that McCain's campaign "continued": In a September 26 Washington Post article, Michael D. Shear and Jonathan Weisman wrote: Democrats immediately blamed McCain for disrupting the effort at compromise, saying his decision to suspend his campaign and return to Washington shifted the klieg lights of the White House contest to the tense and delicate congressional negotiations. [...] Despite the GOP nominee's pledge to suspend electioneering, the presidential campaign continued yesterday. Democrats attacked the McCain campaign for declaring what they called a false truce, pointing to the television appearances of McCain campaign domestic policy adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer, who has been attacking Obama as taking undue credit for crisis management and legislative deal-making. In a September 25 AP article, Liz Sidoti wrote: As the day began, McCain portrayed his announced halt to campaign events, fundraising and advertising as an example of putting the country before politics. But in doing so he also hoped to get political credit for a decisive step on a national crisis as polls show him trailing Obama on the economy and slipping in the presidential race. And politics continued on all sides nonetheless. Despite McCain's stated hiatus, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, visited memorials in lower Manhattan to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and McCain aides appeared on news programs. Chief strategist Steve Schmidt said all television advertising was "down." But a McCain ad was later seen on local television in Las Vegas, and perhaps elsewhere. In another September 25 article, the AP wrote: Republican presidential nominee John McCain vowed Wednesday to suspend his campaign to focus on the nation's financial crisis, but there were plenty of signs of activity Thursday -- including an apparently live fundraising link on the campaign's Web site. [...] McCain appeared that evening in an interview on CBS' newscast, but canceled a planned appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show." His vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, made a highly visible visit to ground zero in New York on Thursday morning. McCain spokeswoman Nicole Wallace appeared on NBC's "Today" show. [...] E-mail messages continued to trickle out from the campaign, but at a far slower rate than normal. And the Huffington Post, a left-leaning Web site, said it had called 15 McCain campaign offices in battleground states, and none said it was suspending operations. In a September 26 Los Angeles Times article, Noam N. Levey and Bob Drogin wrote: It also did not appear that McCain had fully suspended his campaign, as he had said Wednesday that he would until a solution to the economic crisis was reached. His Republican running mate, Sarah Palin, remained on the trail Thursday, his ads were still on the air, his campaign offices remained open, and fundraising continued. [...] Elsewhere, there were other signs that the presidential campaign was very much in swing. Trailed by camera crews and reporters, Palin visited the former World Trade Center site in Manhattan to tour a museum built as a tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. McCain's campaign website still allowed supporters to volunteer or contribute. His national headquarters in Arlington, Va., as well as local, state and regional field offices remained open. And on Capitol Hill, McCain was joined by his senior campaign team, including strategist Steve Schmidt, campaign manager Rick Davis, aide Mark Salter and policy advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin. In a September 26 AP article, Steven R. Hurst wrote: McCain's call to postpone the debate was his latest surprise move aimed at shaking up a race in which Obama would seem to have an inherent advantage, given the economic turmoil and the unpopular presidency of Republican George W. Bush. The four-term Arizona senator did not, in fact, truly suspend campaign activities nor, Democrats claim, did he carry through on a promise to halt TV ads attacking Democratic opponent Barack Obama. McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, paid a highly visible visit to memorials in lower Manhattan to those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:59:21 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article

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CBS devoted 5 minutes to "lipstick," other McCain attacks before reporting that "lipstick" attack was bogus


The September 10 edition of the CBS Evening News devoted five minutes, in two segments, to the back-and-forth between the campaigns of Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama over Obama's September 9 "lipstick" remark and other McCain attacks -- including a statement by Capitol Hill correspondent Chip Reid that a McCain ad about the "lipstick" comment may work whether "true or not" -- before CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante reported of the "lipstick" comments: "The facts: Obama had not mentioned [Gov. Sarah] Palin. He was focused on the central argument of his campaign -- that McCain's policies would be no different than President Bush's." Reid reported, "In one ad aired on the Internet, the McCain campaign accuses Barack Obama of suggesting that Palin is a pig," before airing a clip of the ad. He went on to say, "The Obama campaign called the ad 'pathetic.' Obama, they said, used a common expression to criticize the McCain campaign's policies, not Palin." After airing another ad from the McCain campaign, Reid stated, "Democratic officials called that ad, and The Wall Street Journal article it was based on, a flat-out, absolute fabrication -- but true or not, the ads may work." Reid then played a clip of Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia stating, "Any day that the campaign is about Sarah Palin given her current popularity, it's a good day for John McCain and a bad day for Barack Obama." Reid then said that "another sign that both campaigns have taken a hard turn on to the low road, in Philadelphia today, McCain was all but drowned out by hecklers shouting support for Obama." He provided no evidence that the Obama campaign was in any way responsible for the "hecklers," while citing their heckling as evidence of "both campaigns hav[ing] taken a hard turn on the low road." In the second report, correspondent Dean Reynolds began by stating that Obama "played into the hands of his rivals with a flip comment that left him open to attack." After airing comments from Obama responding to the McCain campaign's charges about the "lipstick" comment, Reynolds stated that "by responding, Obama elevated the issue." Five minutes after Reid had first mentioned the "lipstick" comments and after both Reid and Reynolds had aired statements from both the McCain and Obama campaigns without taking a position on whose argument was correct, Plante noted, in what anchor Katie Couric called a "Reality Check," that Obama hadn't mentioned Palin and was talking about McCain's policies when he made the "lipstick" comment. Plante went on to note that "[t]he colorfully descriptive phrase is often used by politicians, including John McCain." He later added, "Even the vice president has used it." From the September 10 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric: REID: Sarah Palin is, at this moment, in the air, on her way home to Alaska to see her son as he's deployed to Iraq, and she leaves behind a campaign that seems to get uglier everyday. [begin video clip] REID: In Northern Virginia today, John McCain and Sarah Palin drew their biggest crowd yet, more than 23,000, and there was no doubt who many of them came to see. CROWD: Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. PALIN: We're going to Washington to shake things up. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's amazing. She thinks the way I think. REID: But neither Palin nor McCain even mentioned the ugly war of words swirling around Palin that has all but consumed both campaigns. In one ad aired on the Internet, the McCain campaign accuses Barack Obama of suggesting that Palin is a pig. OBAMA: But, you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. REID: The Obama campaign called the ad "pathetic." Obama, they said, used a common expression to criticize the McCain campaign's policies, not Palin. In the middle of that furor, the McCain campaign released another ad portraying Palin as a victim. ANNOUNCER: Obama air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators, and opposition researchers into Alaska to dig dirt on Governor Palin. REID: Democratic officials called that ad, and The Wall Street Journal article it was based on, a flat-out, absolute fabrication -- but true or not, the ads may work. LARRY SABATO (director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia): Any day that the campaign is about Sarah Palin, given her current popularity, it's a good day for John McCain and a bad day for Barack Obama. REID: It's a campaign strategy focused on personality, not issues, as described by McCain's campaign manager last week. RICK DAVIS (McCain campaign manager): This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates. REID: And in another sign that both campaigns have taken a hard turn on to the low road, in Philadelphia today, McCain was all but drowned out by hecklers shouting support for Obama. [end video clip] REID: Now, one question now is whether John McCain will see a drop in enthusiasm campaigning alone without Palin, and we're told when she does return from Alaska in a few days, they may well campaign more together than had been planned. Katie? KATIE COURIC (anchor): OK, Chip Reid. Thanks a lot, Chip. If the McCain campaign was outraged over that lipstick comment, Senator Obama said today he's just as outraged over their use of it. Dean Reynolds, now, has that part of the story. [begin video clip] REYNOLDS: Having played into the hands of his rivals with a flip comment that left him open to attack, Obama today denounced what he called a cynical, insincere game played by the Republicans and a willing news media. OBAMA: I mean, this whole thing about lipstick. Nobody actually believes that these folks are offended. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw up an outrageous ad, because they know that it's catnip for the news media. REYNOLDS: But by responding, Obama elevated the issue. And though he tried to laugh it off, he did not seem amused. OBAMA: Right, I'm talking about John McCain's economic policies, I say this is more of the same -- you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig -- and suddenly they say, "Oh, you must be talking about the governor of Alaska." This is what they want to spend two out of the last 55 days talking about. REYNOLDS: Obama, though, spent some time on it in an interview for tonight's Late Show with David Letterman. [begin video clip] DAVID LETTERMAN (talk show host): Have you ever actually put lipstick on a pig? PAUL SHAFFER (musical director): Whoops. OBAMA: You know, the -- SHAFFER: Uh-oh. OBAMA: The answer would be no. But I think it might be fun to try. ... Had I meant it this way, she would be the lipstick, you see. The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig. [end video clip] REYNOLDS: Jokes aside, Obama's aides have loudly complained that his words are being twisted by the Republicans and then spread by the press. SEAN HANNITY (Fox News host): We saw the audience got the joke, calling the vice-presidential candidate a pig. OBAMA: This McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish diversions than about the future. REYNOLDS: He has spent the last two weeks addressing the economy, energy, and education, but he said episodes involving what he called "phony outrage" block a meaningful discussion. OBAMA: You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the Democratic candidate. It's not the Republican candidate. It's you. [end video clip] REYNOLDS: But Obama may be more willing now to mix it up. Sources tell CBS News he will no longer stand in the way of those partisan independent groups that could do in attack ads to John McCain what those behind the Swift Boat attacks did to [Sen.] John Kerry just four years ago. Katie? COURIC: Dean Reynolds. Thanks very much, Dean. The McCain campaign also took aim today at Senator Obama's record on sex education, but is that attack and the lipstick uproar really on target? For that, we turn to Bill Plante with this "Reality Check." [begin video clip] PLANTE: The McCain campaign jumped hard on the phrase "lipstick on a pig." In addition to this Internet-only video, their truth squad quickly set up a conference call. The claim: Obama was talking about Sarah Palin. JANE SWIFT (McCain campaign "Palin Truth Squad" member): Senator Obama uttered what I can only deem to be disgraceful comments comparing Governor Palin to a pig. PLANTE: What connected the comment to Palin? Governor Swift said it was this line from her convention speech. PALIN: You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick. PLANTE: The facts: Obama had not mentioned Palin. He was focused on the central argument of his campaign -- that McCain's policies would be no different than President Bush's. OBAMA: That's just calling some -- the same thing -- something different. But you know, you can't -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. PLANTE: The colorfully descriptive phrase is often used by politicians, including John McCain, here talking about the health-care plan of another female politician, Hillary Clinton. McCAIN: I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig. PLANTE: Even the vice president has used it. VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: You can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day, it's still a pig. PLANTE: McCain's campaign also released an ad criticizing Obama's education record, which makes this claim. ANNOUNCER: Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach comprehensive sex education to kindergartners. PLANTE: The facts: The bill introduced in the Illinois legislature never became law. It called for non-mandatory sex education for grades K-through-12 that was age and developmentally appropriate. For kindergartners, that included, among other things, how to say no to unwanted sexual advances. [end video clip] PLANTE: Obama did vote for the bill in committee, and he says he supports similar laws in other states, but he said the point was to help parents teach their children how to deal with sexual predators. Katie?
Published: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:32:02 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article

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