Watch thin-skinned McCain abruptly end interview with CNN's John King re playing of the race card.

[flpoljunkie]

(Would anyone in their right mind want a president with such a touchy, thin-skinned temperament? You can bet that John King is no longer considered a 'good' reporter and eligible to sit in the special seats with John McCain on the 'Low Road Express.')

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain defended his campaign Thursday for saying that Sen. Barack Obama is playing the race card.

McCain's campaign manager charged that Obama falsely accused the McCain campaign of injecting race into the presidential contest.

Asked by CNN's John King whether that was fair criticism, McCain said it was.

"I'm sorry to say that it is. It's legitimate. And there's no place in this campaign for that. There's no place for it, and we shouldn't be doing it," he said in Racine, Wisconsin.

The Obama campaign has denied the accusation, but McCain said, "I'll let the American people judge."

Watch the exchange here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/campaign.wrap/index.html

[my2sense]

1. Can't wait to see McShame lose his cool in a debate n/t

[whistle]

3. McCain will not make it as far as debates with Obama, he is crashing and burning

[whistle]

2. Well McCain just lied on camera in that clip, then did a cut and run

:yoiks:

[my2sense]

6. I thought he didn't speak for the McCain campaign

:sarcasm:

[whistle]

8. That's another lie by McCain, someone should be keeping score

[Whisp]

4. jeeze but did he look like the awkward little idiot fuck he is

in that clip

quivering lower lip and all.

omfg, and some 'democrats' want this loser thing over Obama becasue their iddy bitty feelings are hurt over the primaries.

I give up.

[Supersedeas]

33. like a puppet, he walks away when he doesn't want to and when he doesn't believe in the message

Let the voters decide is a cowardly way of saying, I have no strong arguments for the position...I'm only floating it out there -- but thanks John King for being a compliant accomplice to dividing the country for short term political gains.

[24HRrnr]

5. Actually, Obama is

injecting it. Inoculating would be a better term, though. One of the firstrules of salesmanship is answer objections up front.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080731/D928PB3O0.html

[AlCzervik]

7. Did you notice how he fidgets with his ring? Anyhow he looked totally weak

and you know he had no idea how to handle himself.

[Alexander]

17. He fidgets with the wedding ring a lot. Could it be a sign?

[AlCzervik]

22. it just seems off somehow, like sometimes you can when someone is lying because they

do a certain thing that gives them away, like "ummmmm, ummmm" that type of deal. What does the fidget equal, it must be something, like nervousness or i'm so screwed here?

[Cha]

9. So when mccain's sorry a$$ loses then

he'll know the American people judged him all right.

[Muttocracy]

10. is that video link the one you meant, or do they change it now and then? nt

[AlCzervik]

11. the bottom link is where i saw it after sitting through the first link, that's 5 minutes i'll never

get back.

[Muttocracy]

12. ah, thanks. nt

[blondeatlast]

13. What a petulant little scaredy-cat--is this how he thinks leaders behave? Even KO covered

it though it was from CNN--it OUGHT to get a lot of play, but I know it won't.

[Beetwasher]

14. Obama's And Uppity Blackman!

Booga booga! That's all folks!

[JackORoses]

15. That Man's Presidential aspirations are done

toodleoo, Air Pirate McAnus!

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. Watch John King recoil like a beat dog when McBigot didn't like the followup.

Corporate media whore coward dog.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. good thing he was wearing dark pants

what a scaredy cat.

[Gold Metal Flake]

19. Or was he wearing depends?

[Sugarcoated]

20. What was King supposed to do

chase after McAssGoblin? He rushed off abruptly, it was bizarre. Didn't John King do that special about the Cheney abuse of power? That was a sweet bit of reporting of truth to power.

[Gold Metal Flake]

23. Yes, chase after McAssGoblin.

[Sugarcoated]

24. I guess that's not his style

doesn't make him a bad reporter or a corporate shill or whatever you're implying. He's not the best reporter I've ever seen, but he's not a shill. I've seen King take the ass goblin's to task on many occasions - and Democrats as well.

[Gold Metal Flake]

25. What if it weren't McAssGoblin?

I prefer McBigot right now. Anyways, what if it were Barak? Would he have just let McCain dictate the end of the interview and take a subserviant pose while Barak walked away muttering or would he at least given an appearance of a pursuit while getting the shot? I presume the latter. it's what a good TV reporter would do. King squelched himself and looked like a puppy just swatted with a newspaper.

King is worried about being cut off. He should make being cut off a point of pride, and make sure when it happens that it is on video and that it's spectacular.

[Sugarcoated]

26. If Obama did the same exact thing

no, I don't think King would've chased after him. But maybe he would've, I don't know. I think he was just taken aback at McBigot/Mcass goblin's unprofessional abrupt ending of the interview. David Gregory would've made it spectacular, John King, while a very good reporter IMO, not the David Gregory type.

I will always like King for that truth piece he did on CNN last year that made Lynne Cheney's head explode, 'Power Play'.

[Whisp]

21. have John King and Dana Bash married lately? i thot I heard that a while back.

sorry, OT, but am curious.

never liked King - he's just another fake reporter. Dime a dozen and talentless and easily malleable I'm supposing. You have to have the personal integrity and grit of a mollusk to do what those people do and call it journalism.

[flpoljunkie]

31. Googled it. King and Bash were married May 25th on Cape Cod. Here's the wedding video!

http://www.236.com/feed/2008/07/07/celebrate_the_uptotheminute_lo_7550.php

[Whisp]

32. thanks. hoiyty toiyty Cape Code, eh? nt

[Gabi Hayes]

27. John King is a McCain sycophant. the linked snippet doesn't come close to telling the

real story.....

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/16/king/

he's just an arrogant, petulant narcissist, who doesn't like very much to be exposed for the RW shill he really is

make sure you read his email to Greenwald, including this snip which makes him sound like an ignoramus, on top of everything else:

You clearly know very little about journalism. But credibility matters. It is what allows you to cover six presidential campaigns and be viewed as fair and respectful, while perhaps a little cranky, but Democrats and Republicans alike.

[Sugarcoated]

28. Arrogant, I'll give you somewhat narcissistic

but right wing shill? King's letter to that journalist had some good points. It wasn't as cut and dried as that reporter made it seem. I was disappointed at the tone of the letter from King, but he pointed out several things about the interview that Salon reporter didn't take into account. Like I said, King isn't the best, but he's not bad. He's no shill for the ass goblin's - I've seen great truth to power reporting from him. But he does schmooz and I don't like that about journalists. There's no place for it - I wish they'd all end it.

[Gabi Hayes]

29. you mean, like there were things edited from the interview? what else?

what else didn't Greenwald take into account? just about every one of King's fatuos objections are irrelevant, because Greenwald provided a transcript to the ENTIRE interview, the only thing available to the viewing public. all that other crap King mentioned in defense was irrelevant to what was presented to the public.

he claims to have had 'contentious moments' with McCain, but I've never seen any....maybe he has, but check these>>>>

more on King's performance as journalist:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802220011

During CNN debate, John King falsely claimed Obama "refused" to disclose earmarks

Summary: During the February 21 Democratic presidential debate, CNN's John King cited a report stating that Sen. Barack Obama was "responsible for $91 million in earmarks" in the 2008 fiscal year, and asked Obama: "And you have refused to say where the money went, what it's for. Why?" In fact, Obama disclosed his "earmarks" for the 2008 fiscal year in a June 2007 press release.

................

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801100014

CNN's John King repeated McCain's dubious explanation of vote against Bush tax cuts


Summary: CNN's John King reported that Sen. John McCain "didn't vote for the Bush tax cuts because there weren't spending cuts." In fact, during the Senate debate on the conference committee version of the 2001 tax cut bill, McCain did not mention the absence of offsetting spending cuts; rather, he stated that, while he supported an earlier version of the bill "that provided more tax relief to middle income Americans," "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."


.......

tell you what--for every instance you provide of King being rough on McCain, I'll link some instances similar to the above, OK?

[Sugarcoated]

30. I've seen him rough on Bush and Cheney

Not sure about how rough he's been on McShame, but I believe him. I admit King isn't the best out there - obviously he's done some sloppy reporting that Media Matters has called him on. We're in a sloppy media age, but McShame/RW shill? I don't buy it. I actually think he leans left from what I've read of him. I don't buy into the "RW Shill" mantra every time a reporter says something people don't agree with or doesn't ask a question or follow up question we'd like to see them ask. They make mistakes.

It doesn't need to be made into a contest or something, I just disagree.