Mccain Kicked Brokaw's Butt & Was Cool Calm & Collected On Meet The Press

[blueskygal]

I was very impressed with how MAC handled Brokaw this a.m. He questioned Brokaw's assumptions and made him look shallow. He was cool and calm. That's the way to do it. When Brokaw said "People think Palin is not qualified" MAC said "BASED ON WHAT?" Brokaw stumbled and then said "her interviews didn't go well." Then MAC trotted out her credentials and pointed out AGAIN that she has more exec experience than either on the other ticket. That's the way to do it - QUESTION THEIR ASSUMPTIONS and it makes them look like the bias jerks they are!

For those so inclined here is the link to the first part. I know many of you are boycotting msnbc.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27387092#27387092

Once again Brokaw quotes a biased poll and Mac has perfect answer.

[Isis46]

I used to watch Meet the Press every Sunday with my dear husband, for 10 years, until Tim Russert died. Since then, there has been steady Obama-bias droning will all the guest hosts. I told my sweetie that I couldn't watch it any longer, at least until after the election or maybe even well into next year.

I caught just a bit, as my sweetheart has a strong constitution and watched with his Sunday morning coffee. He said McCain sounded calm, cool, collected -- with a twinkle in his eye that indicates he knew more than we was letting on.

I am glad of the good report.

[JamieKuuipo]

Good For Mccain!!!!!!!!!!!!KICK BUTT!!!

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[foxyladi]

Good For Mccain!!!!!!!!!!!!KICK BUTT!!!

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haha..love your graphics..

[freespirit]

until Tim Russert died. Since then, there has been steady Obama-bias droning will all the guest hosts.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

[Ikasu]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

TR was the most reasonable out of any of his peers. He was okay to me.

[EH]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

Exactly. May Tim Russert RIP, but let's not forget how he treated Hillary during the debates.

[Frances]

Exactly, I didn't like Tim's attitude and statements towards Hillary.

[freespirit]

Exactly. May Tim Russert RIP, but let's not forget how he treated Hillary during the debates.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. I had always liked/respected Tim. But that debate- I was shocked and mad as hell. Never watched him or MTP again.

[Folamix]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM

TR was just as enamored of BO as a lot of MSM. But he was starting to ask questions past the line of "YES WE CAN".

[meitgil]

I was very impressed with how MAC handled Brokaw this a.m. He questioned Brokaw's assumptions and made him look shallow. He was cool and calm. That's the way to do it. When Brokaw said "People think Palin is not qualified" MAC said "BASED ON WHAT?" Brokaw stumbled and then said "her interviews didn't go well." Then MAC trotted out her credentials and pointed out AGAIN that she has more exec experience than either on the other ticket. That's the way to do it - QUESTION THEIR ASSUMPTIONS and it makes them look like the bias jerks they are!

I agree on those points. But from there, McCain's performance went straight down. Brokaw compared Palin's approval ratings immediately after the convention to now. Among independent women voters, she had dropped quite a bit. (Of course, one can only trust an ABC\Washington Post poll so much.)

Brokaw said: "Many people think she's simply not qualified to be president."

McCain said: "She's not qualified Because?" and Brokaw replied (to paraphrase) she's had a lot of exposure, including the vice-presidential debate--some them not prosecutorial--and they've come to the conclusion that she's not qualified to be president.

McCain did say he thought she did fine in the debate with Biden, but FAILED to mention the unprecedented and one-sided assault on her image by the entire entertainment industry, including the mainstream media. [Note that I now include the MSM as part of the entertainment industry--certainly not as part of the press.] He should have said: "Given this onslaught, it is no wonder she may have dropped in the polls--that was the intent of the assault in the first place.

McCain then allowed Brokaw to bring up the notion of his campaign "spending $150,000 on Palin's wardrobe at Nieman Marcus and at Sachs, when she's portraying herself as a soccer mom...wasn't that a colossal mistake on the part of the RNC?"

McCain then, stammering, gave the excuse that "she lives a frugal life and she and her family are not wealthy."

Why did he not say that is the very kind of media attack she's been constantly subjected to; that it is disrespectful and irrelevant; that they would never dare to say that about Michelle Obama or even Biden; and that--like Elizabeth Hasselbeck noted later in the day--it is a sexist attack.

Perhaps it would have been interesting if he had asked "who wrote that question?" Like Biden asked Barbara West on Thursday. Biden was so surprised to get a tough question, he almost lost it; such questioning is always reserved for the McCain ticket.

It would have been nice if--with only a short time left to reach the public--McCain went on the offensive, just one time, when his running mate is attacked by the media.

[ILBlue]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

Sorry , not to be disrespectful and I certainly never made hateful comments when he passed but I never liked Tim Russert. Except I did admire his love of his family and respected him for that but otherwise forget about it.

He always showed his favoratism and this election was no differant.

[mjoynaples]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

he said some pretty disgusting things about her if I recall ... glad MAC did great... do you have the link where he "praises Sarah?"

[CountryFirst]

I can't believe Tom Brokaw asked about Sarah Palin's wardrobe. (I boycott NBC, so I didn't see it).

It's official what my husband has been saying: The news has turned into People Magazine. There are no serious journalists left. It's all superficial based on image and opinion polls.

Tom Brokaw would rather talk about Palin's clothes than her ideas on energy independence ...

I'm not surprised, but I am honestly so MAD I could just EXPLODE!!!!!!!!!!:mad:

[marc]

Msm is so out of control its pathetic,damn all of them.I have such hate for these people and I need to pray because its not good to have this much hate in me. the msm is so bad.

[CT-Hilltopper]

This is the heart of the issue. Everyone is dancing around it, but noone has just come out and said it.

Why is America so ready for a black President, and not ready for a woman President?
Let's be blunt about it and not dance around the issue.

We saw it with Hillary Clinton and we're seeing it again with Sarah Palin.

Every time America get someone within an inch of that "glass ceiling" they get destroyed in the most viscious, sexist ways imaginable by the press.

Until we can answer that question, we can't get a woman elected President, so if we want Hillary elected this is something we really have to think about.

[nette60]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I thought Tim as biased toward BO as anyone else with MSM.

Glad Mac did well, though. You're right about going on the offence rather than always playing defence. They need to do that regarding the race card, and the voter fraud too, IMO.

I have always felt that way. They just need to be called on it and not be afraid of it. I just don't understand how Hillary and Bill can campaign for Obama after they used the race card.....it's what got him where he is....it will only get worse if White people don't call them on it.

[CountryFirst]

Msm is so out of control its pathetic,damn all of them.I have such hate for these people and I need to pray because its not good to have this much hate in me. the msm is so bad.

I just got off the phone with my mom and we both had a good cry over the media's mission to destroy Sarah Palin.

She lives in Nevada, and she's going to be phone banking for McCain this week.

We are both sad. We're both mad. But we're not giving up.

Women will only get better treatment when it becomes intolerable for the media to treat us this way.

We need to boycott all of them, write letters, call.

If that's what it took for AAs to get equal rights (not saying that everything's fair now for AAs, but at least it's better than women) then we need to do the same thing.

It's not gonna get better, until they pay a price for their sexism.

[Aria]

[I] This is the heart of the issue. Everyone is dancing around it, but noone has just come out and said it. Why is America so ready for a black President, and not ready for a woman President? Let's be blunt about it and not dance around the issue.

Well, obviously, ALL of America is NOT ready for a black president. But the media and the BO campaign does its darndest to convince you that it's true = manipulating = follow the pack if you want to be cool, i.e., it will show the whole world what great, open-minded people we are and solve all our problems all around the globe! Yah, sure, ya betcha!

But black is not the problem with me - it's that THIS black person is SERIOUSLY LACKING in ALL forms of credentials for the job, while the ONLY thing he has TOO MUCH OF is a BUSLOAD (in and under) of questionable, worrisome friends and associates and BAD IDEAS.

Unfortunately, the corruption of this election process has taken race and women's issues backwards a decade or two - imo - when it could have been a glorious step forward for our country having either a qualified woman (Hillary!) or a qualified black elected as president for the first time. Somebody - a lot of somebodies - messed up beyond belief!

[RachachaSharon]

Did anyone else notice that Brokaw's was getting red when he was challenged and had to explain his assumptions?

[RachachaSharon]

he said some pretty disgusting things about her if I recall ... glad MAC did great... do you have the link where he "praises Sarah?"

There was a time when I thought Tim Russert did a good job. I was proud that he came from my neck of the woods and we were close in age. I expect that we even crossed paths at some point. However, he seemed to really want to get the best of Hillary to the point, at the debate, where he looked like Howard Dean at that crazy moment of his fateful howl. I couldn't watch him after the debate. He turned my stomach.

[blueskygal]

There was a time when I thought Tim Russert did a good job. I was proud that he came from my neck of the woods and we were close in age. I expect that we even crossed paths at some point. However, he seemed to really want to get the best of Hillary to the point, at the debate, where he looked like Howard Dean at that crazy moment of his fateful howl. I couldn't watch him after the debate. He turned my stomach.

ME TOO! He had such hatred and malice in his face -- and it was like he gave her a severe body blow - and to my amazement she was able to absorb that punch and give it right back.

In that moment I saw how much he hates powerful women. i am not sad to see him gone after what he did to Hillary. He reminded me of the worst bullies I had seen in grammar school.

[cynthia2]

I have come to find the media extremely distasteful. I have come to find Hollywood full of people spouting political nonsense. I have come to believe that there is a swath of people for whom their largest thrill is to cut another person down while "Gibsoning" them, glasses perched on their nose as they look down at the person they are skewering. I hope that these Hollywood elites, and multimillionaire newscasters have experiences which teach them just how ridiculous is their belief in how mighty their words are. I hope Charles Gibson's ratings and Tom Brokaw's ratings and Brian William's ratings and Katie Couric's ratings go to the lowest level possible. I hope Matt Damon's movies, Lindsey Lohan's movies, Ben Affleck's movies and Madonna's tours all are box office disasters.

These people are pathetic the way they parse their words and add their own opinions to things they know, in some cases, nothing about. I don't want Tom or Brian or Katie or Charles opinion. I want them to report facts, not conjecture, not opinions. I am tired of the talking heads. I am tired of the hate they have spewed on women like Hillary and Sarah. I am sick to death of Obamamania. This near Messiah-hood for a man who has no past, and who's plans for the future morph daily.

Joe Biden has made more gaffe's and said more outright lies than anyone in this campaign. And then for Tom Brokaw to sit there and lay judgement on Sarah Palin, while defending Obama-Biden is pitiful.

If Obama wins, I will be very, very disappointed in the American people.