Reporter: My Viagra Question Convinced McCain To Cut Off Press

LA Times:

It wasn't my intention, but I played a role in shutting down John McCain's Straight Talk Express. ...

The questions meandered across more than a dozen topics, but I asked if he agreed with his advisor Carly Fiorina's recent statement that it was unfair for some health insurance companies to cover Viagra but not birth control -- because McCain generally opposed those kinds of mandates.

...

In the driveway of the airport motel on the evening of the Viagra question, McCain's aides made an argument that would shape their attitude over the next four months: If reporters were going to ask about issues that they deemed irrelevant to voters, why should the campaign give them access to the candidate at all?

Salter told me I had made the case for those who thought McCain should curtail his exposure to the press.

Read the whole story: LA Times

Comments

[checkoayala]

I've been wondering where McCain will be in a couple of years, sad to think of a man running for president today with no relevance in just a couple of years.

[onlyyour2]

Maverick Personality Disorder:

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/maverick-personality-disorder.html

[pattio66]

"...McCain­'s aides made an argument that would shape their attitude over the next four months: If reporters were going to ask about issues that they deemed irrelevant to voters, why should the campaign give them access to the candidate at all?"

Maybe that's the problem with McCain's campaign..­.his advisers think THEY decide which issues are relevant to voters. I know none of them asked me what I think is relevant..­.talk about out of touch!

[MarciL]

Exactly! And I personally think that the viagra insurance coverage V. birth control coverage is VERY important.

[TV5]

The original company in charge of the Mess for Press registration for McCain "Racket Night" is:

www.csm-corp.com
Paul Christinsen
at 503 224 5600
email: cms-corp.comp.com

Is it very strange if this company appear to be a major contractor for the DOD...?

It's now impossible for the international media to get a credential for the election night in the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix...­Why?...

Because the website for this online registration was not able to accept...c­redit card from abroad... Search the mistake... It's a shame!

[Mikeeee]

Granpa used to say, "Do not open mouth 'til you've engaged brain" Sage advice for mccain/palin, but then the thought occurs to me, that their brains might have been engaged and that's a really frightening thought.
Actually neither of them seems to have a moral compass of any sort.

[BluePrideSMW]

since it's been done, it sounds more 'gotcha' to me... Let's be respectful winners.

The Ballad of Johnny McCain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDceTz3UAgI

[MuchMadness]

Let me read that headline again. Convinced him to cut off WHAT? Oh, the PRESS. What a relief.

[oregonideas]

perhaps we all miss the point. It's quite possible McCain's anger was with the mention of Viagra and possible some very uncomfortable memories it engendered.

[realtalker]

McCain is manipulating the middle class and working poor. McCain's tax plan will give MOST of the tax breaks to the wealthy.
WANT TO KNOW WHAT JOHN McCAIN SAID ABOUT THE BUSH TAX CUTS LAST YEAR, (BY THE WAY IT IS THE SAME BUSH TAX CUTS JOHN McCAIN IS NOW PROPOSING TO CONTINUE)
John McCain said this: ""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."
NOW JOHN McCAIN IS SUPPORTING THESE SAME TAX CUTS, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN McCAIN'S CONCERN FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS????
NOW IT SEEMS JOHN McCAIN IS VERY HAPPY TO SUPPORT A TAX PLAN THAT PUNISHES THE MIDDLE CLASS!!!
People need to wake up, John McCain is the same man who has voted 19 times AGAINST raising the minimum wage.
THE FACT IS: John McCain DOES NOT care about the middle class workers in this country!!
GO WATCH JOHN McCAIN BEING INTERVIEWED BY TIM RUSSERT LAST YEAR, CONFRONTED WITH HIS FLIP-FLOP ON THE BUSH TAX CUT!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVG4ROuLSf0&feature=related

Please email this message to your friends, and tell them to send it ALL their republican friends.

[mergina]

I am not sure just what McCain is on, but he looks like his head is going to explode and his heart is going to pop right out of his old, frail, angry, sad chest. UGH!

[gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney]

His eyes look hollow,
I've seen hospital patients with the
same sallow skin and eye sockets with eyeballs that have no sparkle left,
then orders from the family of the patient to: DNR.

(DO NOT RESUSITATE)

[gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney]

'resuscitate'

[moosetacos]

I'm sure Cindy was hoping it cut off more than the press.

[Donnat]

It's OK to throw around words like "Marxist" "colossal blunder" "Catastrophe" when you're a GOP hack in Central Florida interviewing Joe Biden, but one question about insurance covering Viagra and McCain pulls his head back into his reptilian shell? How can his supporters think he can lead when he can't even meet the press?

Palin and McCain are more afraid of "average Joes" than they are of Bin Laden.

[LemonMeringue]

Obama does not avoid answering difficult questions. Ever.

[DosaHut]

tru dat

[honestpolitician]

good call on the Viagra question..­.the more that man talks, the more lies are flying through the window...

http://politicaladattacks.blogspot.com/

[solutionrong]

Straight talk until a button being pushed. I call it a limited version of straight talk.