McCain On The Run: Cancels Press Availability

Marc Ambinder reports that John McCain's one press conference of the week has been abruptly canceled:

The one scheduled McCain press conference of the week has just been canceled, we are told. No word as to why. Grumble, grumble.

Why? Scheduling. Which is like answering "food" to "what did you eat for breakfast."

Ambinder offers a relatively innocuous explanation:

My bet is that the campaign much prefers local and regional interviews. Us national press folks will ask qualitatively different questions -- McCain v. the press, McCain v. history, McCain v. Obamania... The priority here in northern Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional district is on getting good local news coverage.

But Ben Smith sees more, pointing out that Obamania is the least of McCain's worries right now:

Despite the press crowd around Obama, McCain's avail today was the one with more promise to make news:

He hasn't explained what he meant by juggling the timeline on the surge and Awakening (though his staff did the best salvage job possible); whether he meant that Obama was deliberately selling out the country; whether he shares his campaign's grievance with the press; or what he thinks of his staff's genocide-themed attack.

And now he's canceled the avail.

Comments

[SamanthaJaneSalem]

I'm going to give McCain a pass on this one.

Why? Because I'm sick of the way the media have been nit-picking everything Obama does and says, as if a trip abroad is somehow controversial (horror of horrors he even has a large *entourage* with him, writes Politico-- like a gangsta rapper you mean?). My own conspiracy theory: members of the media launch these mini-attacks against Obama so they can gain access to the McCain campaign on account of their faux-fairness. It's their access that counts after all, not our need to be informed.

McCain may not want to be pestered with questions about his VP choice until he emerges with his #2.

[UncivilLibertarian]

At this point, it isn't so much McCain against the media, or against Obamamania, or against men from Mars or some such prattle. It's about McCain versus himself, and he's losing.

[AMJordan]

(with deepest apologies to the late, great, W. S. Gilbert)

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[RIPHRC]

Remeber this quote from Good Will Hunting?

Go to the link and it's the top quote regarding why he didn't want to join the NSA.

http://www.logan.ws/quotes/good-will-hunting.asp

It's almost prohetic in hindsight....

[scouserinlondon]

There's no almost about it.It,s uncanny,
Good news . Afleck and Damon, who wrote it are ardent Obama supporters,,,,,, hope their prophetic skills are still spot on.

[Big0725]

Very nice. And prophetic.

Now we truly see why Ben Affleck won an Academy Award.

[tressie22]

AWESOME!!!!

[CaptainHowdy]

Gleep!

[Jessegirl]

This comment will not be displayed until we feel like it, so come back in about an hour or so as***le

[macbabe]

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/you-cant-make-t.html

[SCG]

Thanks, that's a must read.

[Big0725]

Third string I've seen you on pushing this link macbabe. Are you trying to tell us something?

[CocteausTwin]

Me oh my, looks like the wrong week for him to have stoped sniffing glue.

[JustAProgressive]

Ha! I've been going elsewhere because of the editing/censoring on HuffPo. I am astounded that so many are still posting. The delays disrupt flow, if the posts show up at all.

What irks me even more is that I suspect there is a "privileged class" of folks whose posts show up right away, without scrutiny by the censors. So much for purported "democracy"!

Let's see if this comment shows up.

[NochlessMonster]

Wrong wrong wrong..... we have all been tossed into the abyss from time to time.... no favorites when it comes to that........

[Ariadne]

I totally gave up this morning and of course the one comment that always gets through is when you state that you are fed up and leaving so you look like a nutbar.

[RatgurlSD]

"..."privileged class" of folks whose posts show up right away"

They're called trolls.

[CocteausTwin]

all you have to do is misspell the right words. They are promoting ignorance here, and it seems to be working.

[LMT]

Of course he canceled his availability! He's very upset that his lapdog Bobby Jindal just lifted his leg on McBush's pant leg by saying, categorically, that he would not be the VP candidate. DARN!

[roshni]

The exorcist has brains after all - he doesn't want to touch McCin with a 10 foot pole.

[darcy]

I think Mac's taking a junta to Czechoslovakia. (forgive my spelling)

[AMJordan]

"Dear Senator Mc-Cain, Please come back! We're hurting for material."

Signed,

Late night talk shows

[dentuso]

Ain't that the truth. With Boooosh out of office and McGoo in his nosedive, Hollywood is bracing for a bigger drought than during the Writers' strike.

[AMJordan]

But we'll always have Billo...

[Jessegirl]

Okay , what's the secret?

[AMJordan]

Comcast and an in with the Illuminati...

[macbabe]

You can't make this stuff up...
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/you-cant-make-t.html

[scouserinlondon]

This guy has NO LUCK!!!

He was going to demonstrate how safe offshore drilling would be !!!!!!
Cherry on the cake of a perfect week.There is a God after all!!

He rang Bush and said "Hey George, have you ever had one of those weeks......."

[JHancock]

And "Drill'em" McBush has canceled his trip to the New Orleans oil rig because of ........

... "the weather"

Nothing to do with the miles of oil on the Mississippi.

Move along folks, nothing to see here. And of course no mention of it on the MSM.

[Purobi]

You got to be kidding. Thanks for the link.

[dentuso]

Short posts. No names spelled correctly. No terms like ter rorist. Avoid country names. Avoid foul and racist language. No swimming until 30 minutes after eating.

[dentuso]

lol. My first shot at this went into pending... Try it again.

Short posts. No names spelled correctly. No terms like ter rorist. Avoid country names. Avoid foul and ra cist language. No swimming until 30 minutes after eating.

[Flagal]

Can Johnny actually run?

[AMJordan]

No, but he can drool.

[Flagal]

A flap a day keeps the White - House away.

Keep it up Johnny, eventually the press will have to call you on your staements............I hope

[Flagal]

and your statements

[Big0725]

I HATE them sticky keys! ;)

[gditty]

Awwww....He's poo-pooing....both figuratively & literally, he needs to grow a pair, and change his "Depends" undergarment.

[NotMcCain]

Not to worry, my friends.

He's going to be interviewed by ever-McCain-friendly, Wolf Blitzer, on Friday instead.

Then what? Off to FOX for a hard-hitting interview with Sean Hannity?

The big question is: Can his campaign hide him from reporters, voters (and Obama) until November?

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Be sure to remind EggsMcDumbass that, as recently as this morning, he was posting that Jindal would be the VP nominee.

That Exorjimmi was the future of the Republican Party.

[dentuso]

I caught that too. I also prefer your intial dubbing of him as Eggs McMuffin.

[Pema]

Jindals a freak, he performed an excosism and litteraly chased the woman trying to get away from him and held her captive till she behaved as he thought she should. I thought kidnapoping was a fedreal offense.

[SCG]

I think he's playing hard to get.

[dentuso]

he's playing hard to want.