John McCain Cancels CNN Appearance After Campbell Brown's Bounds Interview

Broadcasting & Cable:

According to CNN, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) pulled out of a scheduled interview with the network after a segment with Campbell Brown and a top McCain spokesman Monday night in which Brown asked for examples of a foreign-policy decision made by Republican vice president pick Sarah Palin.

McCain was scheduled to appear on Larry King Live, but CNN's Wolf Blitzer said Tuesday that the campaign told the news network they thought Brown's interview with spokesman Tucker Bounds was "over the line."

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[McCainPalin08]

You are all so hypocritical....Democrats are the ones always dodging and not answering the question. By the way, what is Obama's foreign policy experience? That's right, ZERO! What a joke. You should try to be honest with yourselves for once. You might be able to sleep at night.

[treklady]

Yup, us hypocritical people always dodge and weave, we're like Ali waiting to punch your lights out. I think your team is being run by the 3 Stooge's, they are funny but lack so much on substance.

[crackbama]

Let's be fair now. Obama does have foreign policy experience. His father and brother live in Africa and he diplomatically asked them to stay there out of site until after the election!

[Viper]

His degree is from Columbia is in Foreign Policy. He has written papers on foriegn relations.He has authored a Nuclear arms control bill thats been passed.. Something McCain has not done.

He has had a passport for more than 12 months. He has been outside the U.S. more than once. He has given some thought to the Iraq war. And by the way Palin has barely traveled in the U.S.

Lets play a game:

All Trolls/Repugs list all of the accomplishments of the last 8 years of Repug Rule that you can come up with...


It should not take long. Do you really want to talk issues. We have been asking trolls to do this for a year... and no takers...

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Regards

[gladys46]

Prove that!

[Synnerman]

Aren't you precious. I wonder if you're a secessionist like Palin and her husband. Maybe you can be Count Dooku?

[OutsourcedAgain]

His Father is dead. So it's sort of hard to get him to do anything. Know your facts before posting BS. Oh and BTY I think you meant sight.

[2bad]

You'll have to do better than that Sparky!

[piquet]

ummm ok. It's not about dodging at this point. It's about even having an ANSWER. And BTW the RNC makes Ambien feel like crack. *yawn* you're party sucks yo. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

[gladys46]

Obama is wise enough to have selected a VP whose forte is foreign policy! McCain has no real foreign policy experience except that of a totally FAILED one and he stupidly selects a VP with 20 months as the governor of tiny town holding a spanking new passport for her "first" trip abroad last year!!??

Get a grip!

[treklady]

Oh you forget his POW experience

[McCainPalin08]

See gladys46, the problem is, McCain is running vs. Obama, not Biden.

[eddiebly]

McCain has declared war on the most powerful entity on the planet...The American Media. They don't take prisoners either.

[PumaAnn]

Actually, CNN must be sweating bullets. Fox vastly outstrips them in audience share.

This could kill them. They might end up being the network for the 20's something, who hardly bother to watch TV.

[maroosh]

I saw the interview. His spokesman, Tucker, clearly didn't know the answer. Unprepared... unprofessional...
How could he even go on the air, not expecting that type of question. It's what everyone is talking about!
If this is the type of person McCain surrounds himself with, how could anyone consider voting for him?

[piul05]

The answer to your question is easy: they never expect tough questions because, up to now, the media has had them off the hook - which is another way of saying they haven't been doing their job. Take Bush's meetings with the press, for example; carefully selected jounalists asking previously approved and rehearsed pointless questions, and an audience of carefully picked citizens with blinkers.

But I suppose the whole Palin debacle has been so glaringly mishandled that even the otherwise tamed media felt like asking some REAL questions. Also, it might also be that, just like GOP itself, their supporters in MSM are also divided and some would like McCain to fall - and fast.

[GZLives]

The ONLY question I'd have for the Republicans would be:

Do you really think we're all THAT stupid?

[crackbama]

Not stupid, at least not all of you, just grossly misinformed & unable to think without the help of CNN, MSNBC, etc etc etc

[treklady]

Nope, we are informed, and please most don't get their info from TV, it hurts to read trolls comments because we see the lack of vetting of any issue, subject or VP.

[snakesonablog]

The GOP idea of well informed:

1. Saddam had WMD which were going to cause a mushroom cloud over an American city at any time.

2. The Iraq war would be over in a few days, since Iraqis would greet American troops with flowers.

3. Brownie did a "great jog" in New Orleans.

4. There were not political reasons for firings in the Justice Department.

5. The mortgage meltdown and lack of economic growth do not foreshadow a recession.

[McCainPalin08]

Yes. Obviously if you picked Gore in 2000, Kerry in 04, and now Obama in 08. Yes, you are THAT stupid.

[treklady]

Well someone from the stupid train of the last eight years, the McCain Palin08 troll is here telling people they're stupid for supporting Gore and Kerry, please tell me why you support 4 more years of Bush, then we'll make that stupid call.

[gladys46]

Stupid is you picking GW as deputy to Cheney & big oil! Mentally disturbed is you thinking that America will put up with republican nonsense for another day after Jan, 2009!

ENOUGH!!!

[Viper]

lets see... Your selection took us from a surplus to the largest deficts in history. Lost 4.5 million mFG jobs. The dollar has been devalued by 50%. Oil price are up 500%. Food prices up 300%. Highest infaltion rate in 27 years.

Bush ran up in 8 years more debt than all other president combined in the history of the U.S.

Real wages up $7K under Clinton. Real wages down $2K under Bush. Under Clinton 22.5 million jobs created. Under Bush 4.5 million ( low paying, most in government).

Stock market up under clinton 400%. Stock market down under BUSH, even before considering dollar devaluation and inflation.

Bankruptices up more than double . Half of Americans networth lost. 70% of Americans have no netwoth now...

Deregulation causing Bank failures and oil speculation and the fastest transfer of wealth from this country to foreign governments in the history of the world..

Regards

[LiberalLo]

Absolutely the rethugs think we are all stupid and proved it in 2000 and 2004. Have you forgotten who the president is and how he got his job????????

[HallStyle]

What a cry baby! Is this the kind of leadership we need in The White House?

If he can't handle an interview with a reporter from CNN,how can he handle Nuclear negotiations with North Korea?

How will he handle peace talks with the Palestinians?

How will he handle Hugo Chavez?

How will he deal with Iran? I don't think he has the MENTAL capability to handle even of these situations or deal with any of these situation without losing his TEMPER!!!!

We need a LEADER! Not a CRY BABY! Not a BUSH FOLLOWER! NOT ANOTHER CRONY!

WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER REPUBLICAN!

[serecovery]

BERNARD KERICK

[edwarvir]

This is so very childish it's my way or the hiway Methuselah had
to know that the news media was going to ask Sarah questions. and why not. She's stomping with the big boys now (no pow stories) No Senator O telling you
what to say. No cone of silence just the facts sir , Just the facts.

lol

[gladys46]

Hopefully, Sarah will be the last incoherent , unaccepted McCain joke on America ... the joke before this was to deploy Cindy to Georgia!!!!

[crackbama]

Let's not forget about Obama going to Iraq and Afghanistan. I mean with him being the brilliant military strategist that he is an all............

[ex-pat]

I would not let McCain lead a troop of Boy Scouts let alone our country

[Outverb]

What a wimp! I saw the Campbell Brown interview as it first aired. My wife and I were laughing because as usual, the spokesman was babbling on and on but completely ignoring the question. Campbell simply kept asking hin to respond to a perfectly legitimate question! I am losing respect for McCain because of this and his VP choice.

[Agent420]

I was on the planning commission, the finance committee, and the design review board in a small town in Oregon for two years. I think that gives me more executive experience than John McItsallaboutme.

[mincepies]

This is all getting a little surreal:

1) Whether she's brilliant or not, the fact is that Palin has been nominated to arguably the second most important and powerful position of responsibility in the world. Aren't the media entitled to examine her credentials?

2) Its extremely clear that she has zero (absolutely zero) foreign experience of any kind, whether via her job or through her family. She received her first passport in July 2007 for goodness sake. At a time when America's global status has fallen dramatically, not only does her candidacy look completely ridiculous, but it sends another insulting message to the whole world who are watching this election closely.

3) Given the way that the McCain/Palin campaign tried to conceal her daughters pregnancy when this farce started by having the same daughter carry Palin's newborn daughter on the stage, I think the media is 100% correct to dig deeper and I hope they will continue to dig deeper.

4) As for all the other stuff, this isn't happening because shes a woman, its happening because of the track record of corruption in politics in Alaska, because shes been running a state with a population smaller than the Bronx in New City, and because she is supposed to be championing the idea of family values and abstinence.

The fact that the great and the good of the GOP are all circling the wagons is even more disgraceful.

[mellene]

The Republicans just can't stand the heat. They can certainly dish it out but watch out if you give them one itsy, bitsy question that they don't like. What a shameful bunch of hippocrites.

[MikeJo]

there ya go Thats the QUESTION. This question should be asked just like that over and over and over. Following that should be the question of knee jerk decisions by the man who will have his finger on the button that could end the world.

The public is way smarter than the repubs. I hope the press catchs up pretty soon.

[yallkiddn]

Correction: A certain SEGMENT of the public is way smarter than the rethugs--namely, the Democrats!

[crackbama]

I know you guys on this site remove any dissenting opionions, but perhaps this one will not be deleted like the others have been. Regarding Obama going on O'Reilly. He's doing it for the same reason Hillery did. He's afraid he's not far enough ahead at this point and with Palin obviously a big scare for the left, he's taking a gamble. He will do poorly. Obama is an empty suit. Nothing to say if it's not practiced in advance. He has nothing new. More taxes, more government, more liberal ideas. Did you not see Obama fall flat at Saddleback? If you don't believe me watch this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc

[cariintexas]

Then WHY don't you Mc Cain water carriers nominate O' REILLEY for president? Yeah, that's what I thought.

[crackbama]

Because O'Reilly is a commentator, not a politician. You're a real genius.

[yallkiddn]

Saddleback??? Oh! You mean that farce in which McCain arguably knew the questions in advance? Yeah, right.

[crackbama]

Your lame guy is exposed for what he is, an empty suit, and it was all set up because McCain heard through the walls while in another building! Yea sure, go with that, it should make you feel much better about what you're got.

[Viper]

Lets play a game:

All Trolls/Repugs list all of the accomplishments of the last 8 years of Repug Rule that you can come up with...


It should not take long. Do you really want to talk issues. We have been asking trolls to do this for a year... and no takers...

Gallup Daily: Obama Hits 50% for First Time
Leads McCain by eight percentage points, 50% to 42%
September 2, 2008Barack Obama now wins the support of 50% of registered voters in general election preferences, his highest level to date. His 8-point margin over John McCain, with 42%, is one point shy of his widest lead, seen in late July.More ...



Regards

[Agent420]

Is this what your imaginary friend told you to say?
Since you are clearly a repuke, tell me, how many houses do you have?

[OutsourcedAgain]

What planet have you been on for the last 8 years? It's been your party that's gotten us into this mess. So now that it's time to pay the piper you'd like to re-write history? Get a clue!

[LBD123]

Campbell appeared tough because TUCKER was not prepared. He probably didn't do well when his teacher called him to the front of the class either.

[Agent420]

Not prepared. Isn't that a signal attribute of the repugs?

[SouthpawSass]

This is a sign to all media by the McCain camp. Ask nice, simple questions that will make them look good or pay the consequences. Imagine a McCain camp in charge of the country. You think Bush/Cheney was bad...

McCain/Palin - Grumpy old man meets Gidget...