Campbell Brown Interview Leads McCain to Cancel CNN Appearance

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Will CNN's Campbell Brown go down as the next Dan Rather in the halls of liberal bias infamy?

That seems highly possible now after watching Brown's interview with John McCain strategist Tucker Bounds in which she repeatedly attacked Bounds over Sarah Palin's supposed lack of qualifications.

The highly charged exchange (which was very much in keeping with Brown's long record of attacking Palin) led the GOP camp to cancel an interview that John McCain was set to do last night with CNN's Larry King.

Full transcript of the Brown-Bounds exchange below the jump as well as CNN's later reference to it last night.

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First the interview in question, which occured in the 7:00 pm hour of CNN's Republican National Convention coverage:

CAMPBELL BROWN: Tucker, foreign policy experience has been a huge issue in this campaign because you guys made it a big issue, pointing out John McCain has far more experience than Barack Obama and nothing in your view is more important than the campaign. I don't have to tell you there's a feeling out there by some that you're not holding your VP pick to your own standard, the standard you define. So explain to us why you think Governor Palin is ready to be commander in chief.

TUCKER BOUNDS: Governor Palin has the good fortune of being on ticket with John McCain who there is no question is the most experienced and shown proven judgment on the international stage. He understands foreign affairs.

BROWN: We know all that about John McCain, Tucker. I asked you about her. We all know the role of the VP as John McCain defined it is to be able to step into the job of the presidency on day one. I'm asking you about her foreign policy experience.

BOUNDS: Yeah, Campbell, there are a number of people supporting Barack Obama's candidacy and feel he's experienced enough to take on the oval office. Our feeling is --

BROWN: You're not answering my question --

BOUNDS: Just as much experience as Barack Obama.

BROWN: OK. So does she -- you -- what I'm saying is that you set a different standard by arguing how important it was with John McCain. No one's arguing with you he has much more experience than Barack Obama, so I'm trying to get someone from the campaign to explain to me what foreign policy experience or qualifications she has that would allow her to be ready to be commander in chief if something should happen to Senator McCain.

BOUNDS: Well, Campbell, let me be clear. I don't think there should be problem explaining her experience. She has executive state level experience. She's been in public office reforming Washington. She's been in executive office longer and in a more effective sense than Barack Obama's been in the United States senate. She's been the commander of the National Guard of the Alaska National Guard that's been deployed overseas. That's foreign policy experience.

BROWN: If I can interrupt for one second because I've heard you guys say this a lot. Can you tell me one decision that she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard, just one?

BOUNDS: Yeah. She's made -- any decision she has made as the commander of the National Guard that's deployed overseas is more of a decision Barack Obama's been making as he's been running for the president for the last two years.

BROWN: So tell me. Tell me. Give me an example of one of those decisions. I'm curious, just one decision she mad in her capacity as commander in chief of the National Guard.

BOUNDS: Campbell, certainly you don't mean to belittle, every experience, every judgment she makes as commander --

BROWN: I'm belittling nothing. I want to know one judgment or one decision. I want to know what one decision was. I'm not belittling anything, I am curious.

BOUNDS: As she makes a decision how to equip or how to command the national guard in Alaska, that is more -- BROWN: But Tucker, those are the Pentagon's decision, that's General Petraeus, that's the White House.

BOUNDS: Pardon me?

BROWN: No governor makes decisions how to equip or deploy the National Guard. When they go to Iraq, those are decisions made by the pentagon.

BOUNDS: Campbell, on factual basis, they certainly do. In Alaska, if I have an emergency in your state, the National Guard is under the command of the governor. That is more of a command role than Barack Obama has ever had. I would argue John McCain and Governor Palin between the two of them have far more command experience in military than either of the candidates on the democratic side.

I do want to argue this is about the top of the ticket. Ultimately when people go into the ballot box and decide between Barack Obama and John McCain, they will decide between John McCain's record of reforming Washington and Barack Obama's rhetoric on the campaign trail, doesn't have a lot of experience, certainly has no command or military experience which both our candidates have. That's an important distinction I think voters will make the right call in November.

BROWN: All right. Tucker, I'm just going to give it to you, baby. We'll end it there.

BOUNDS: Appreciate it.

BROWN: I appreciate you coming on and taking the time to have this debate. I think it's important. People don't know a lot about her. They want to understand her qualifications as much as possible. We're not beating you up here. We're not trying to. We're just trying to educate ourselves and educate our viewers. So I really do appreciate your time and thank you for your time coming on. If I can, Tucker Bounds, if I can bring back our panel in for one second, David Gergen, commander in chief of the National Guard, is that a qualification to be commander in chief of the United States? I'm just asking.

From CNN's coverage last night of the incident in which Brown admitted that Palin had, in fact, deployed the Alaska National Guard to fight forest fires:

WOLF BLITZER: The McCain campaign said it believed the exchange was over the line. As a result, the interview with Larry King was pulled.

CNN does not believe Campbell's interview was over the line. We are committed to fair coverage of both sides in this election. By the way, you can see the entire interview at CNN.com. We hope senator McCain will join us here on CNN in the near future.

Let's discuss this whole issue, Campbell is here right now. I watched it twice. I thought your questioning was totally appropriate. I had no problem with any of the questions you asked.

Frankly, I was surprised that the McCain campaign reacted; they were so sensitive to that exchange. I've seen a lot worse, obviously, on television.

CAMPBELL BROWN: Certainly, I was a little surprised myself, obviously. I don't think it was over the line. That was a shortened version of a much longer exchange. We had been going back and forth over this issue, which was ultimately about her experience.

I think Senator McCain, very legitimately, made experience a huge issue in this campaign; talking about the experience gap between him and Barack Obama, rightly so. It exists.

Which I think, you know, set a different standard. So going into, you know, when they made their VP pick announcement, I think it made it a legitimate issue to say why aren't you applying that same standard to your choice for vice president?

And what that exchange was about was one of the talking points that we had heard repeatedly from the McCain campaign, that her foreign policy experience was part of her time as commander in chief of the Alaskan National Guard.

All I was trying to do was say tell me what that means. What does that mean? Did she make a decision? Did she pass judgment on something? Did she do something?

ANDERSON COOPER: The obvious answer to that is well, yes, she deployed on such and such a date. But there was not that answer.

BROWN: And interestingly, Anderson, I didn't do this research, but a friend of mine, John Dickerson, who contributes for us on occasion and writes for slate.com, did call the Alaskan National guard and in fact, she did deploy the National Guard to wildfires.

COOPER: Interesting though that they didn't know that.

BROWN: Apparently they didn't know about that and they just hadn't done their homework. So it's hard to blame us for them not being aware of this information. They should look into it, because we did and it's clearly there.

COOPER: Which then goes to a larger question which Democrats are raising quite vociferously is was she vetted enough? Did the McCain campaign really do the vetting?

 

—Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and its Executive Editor.


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There you have it...more

There you have it...more proof the MSM is much more scared about a VP pick than Obama as a possible president. Oh the double edge sword is just killing them.

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"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia

It's really telling

The drive by media is all enthralled with a fake American as President, and when a real American ticket shows up, the drive bys all go eeeck, flip out and have panic attacks.

The amount of liberal iconology thrown over the transom is truly amazing to watch. The whole of liberalism has been a carefully crafted fraud all along. It's their actions, the exposure, that is so funny.

SARAH PALIN IS NOT RUNNING

SARAH PALIN IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT YOU SORORITY BIMBO.

No questions about Barry's qualification at all.

Could the McCain campaign get someone to defend her who isn't a bumbling oaf? 

 

I agree 100% The

I agree 100%

The parrallels being drawn on experience between the top of the democratic ticket and the vp on the republican are maddening. The argument that the Republicans made xp an issue is correct....FOR PRESIDENT.....the fact that they are hammering the vp pick on xp that she appearantly does have more of than their top pick is showing how desperate they are.

Kappa Kappa Campbell

To be fair, her question was borne from McCain's statement that the key qualification for VP was that the candidate step right into the Pres Role.  Kappa Kappa Cambell was asking the hypothetical...assumming she was president, did she have the experience?

So the question didnt bother me much...kind of expected from CNN.  That's not what irked me...her inability to accept any information that didnt support her predetermined pov did.

The McCain staffer hit her with the FACT that Palin has more executive experience and managerial experience than Obama (but no one's asking Barack if he can handle the job of managing the country, the relationships with other countries or his family obligations).

Campbell, i know Wolfe publically cited your solid interview, but it really wasn't.  It wasnt.  Your point was refuted real time, but you simply steam rolled ahead.  There wasnt any discussion, just brow beating in an attempt to get to your predetermined place....as for a counterpoint, you had no sean hannity there to balance out your slant (other than a mildly stunned and embarrassed david gergen).

 

Sounded like Campbell was

Sounded like Campbell was just trying to get a good answer from this guy. If you want to argue that Campbell was never as confrontational when discussing Obama's experience, that's fine.

It was not Tucker's finest hour

He did sort of answer her question, but if he'd given her the specific example about the wildfires, then she might've backed off. I personally think she would've snickered at that response, but Tucker should've been better prepared.

Still, I've never seen any of these idiots at CNN go after Obama or one of his spokespeople this way. Even Chris Matthews who is in the tank for the guy more than anyone berated that one Obama supporter he had on his show for not being able to cite a single accomplishment in his political career.

As far as McCain canceling the interview, I don't think that's the right move. That's playing defense, not offense. What Newt did last night on MSNBC is the template for what every single McCain operative needs to do. You saw the reporter's reaction. He was speechless and had to send it back to the anchor.

You're right that we

You're right that we haven't seen someone go after Obama's experience this way (at least I haven't, but would I if someone had?).

But Tucker's answers were pretty lame. Of course, he couldn't actually say that Palin's foreign policy experience is...slim.

Well, Stephanopoulos once

Well, Stephanopoulos once asked Obama a slightly difficult question back in one of the debates early this year, and he was savaged by the media for such out-of-bounds audacity.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

I agree. He should go on and

I agree. He should go on and then blast them all. Tell him what she did. Put them on the spot. He should turn it around and almost become the interviewer. After all it's a free hour on TV for McCain to advertise himself and Palin.

Tucker did not do his

Tucker did not do his homework about Palin and that is sad.  I do not see anything wrong with Brown's questioning other than the fact that instead of question the dem canidate they have done everything they can do to hide his disgusting anti-american behavior and friendships and the only people they are talking about is Obama and how god-like he is and Palin and how unqualified she is to be CIC and she is not even running for that spot.  What about Pelosi?  She is third in line right now and she is seriously detached from reality.  No one is talking about McCain (I suppose that is good because conservatives have heard enough from him).  No one is talking about Biden and his obvious drinking problems...he stumbles around on the stage and rambles on in slurred speach. 

Tucker and the others need

Tucker and the others need to be so up to speed on Palin's record. They should assume the worst from these journalists and be ready to blast them with facts.

I don't think he wasn't up to speed - he just wasn't aggressive

enough. His style was too polite and she wouldn't let him finish. McCain needs aggressive spokespeople who can shout back at these shouting journalists and tell them to stop interrupting if they really want an answer. Gingrich did an excellent job.

i agree.....would love to

i agree.....would love to hear them say, if you would stop interrupting me i was going to answer your question....or let me know when you are done talking i wouldn't want to interrupt you.

Newt link

Do you have a link to "what Newt did last night on MSNBC"?

 

I strongly support the mccain/PALIN ticket!

Newt on MSNBC - Link on YouTube

Maybe somebody else has already answered this, but here's the link to see Newt go after the reporter..

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkaKwJ9eOUU

Did BathTub Boy ever get to

Did BathTub Boy ever get to the "openings" that Newt supposedly gave them when he schooled Ron Allen?

MSNBC could edit that interview and have Allen pretend he is talking to Newt off camera and counter with this: "Well, when Barack was the Chairman of the CAC, he spent $100 million doallars to set up his campaign.  So how that for executive experience!"  

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

THAT KICKED @$$...

I flipped by & saw Newt just toss & bomb into Obama's Media Outreach Center, aka MSNBC.

What I like about Newt is he does'n give a damn who he says his opinion to when it comes to the media. He says it & stands behind it.

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

Hence MSM Liberal bias and

Hence MSM Liberal bias and one of the needs for Newsbusters

rabidly hostile interrogation

So to liberals, rabidly hostile interrogation is "good journalism" when directed at conservatives. Campbell was badgering him, unwilling to accept any answer and trying to make her own point. 

And to top it all, when he stated the most salient fact here, namely that Gov. Palin is more qualified than Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Campbell got visibly angry, guess the truth hurts

If the libs and their accomplaces in the media say she's not qualified to be Veep, then the less qualified Obama is CERTAINLY unqualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief.  And the obvious REALITY (which the media is trying desperately to hide by acting as Obamas PR firm, using lies and smear tactics) is that Gov. Palin is qualified to be Veep and Obama might be, but neither are qualified to be POTUS.  And that leaves the inescapable logical conclusion that the Democrat Ticket is completely unsupportable and a total FIASCO.

I don't know about "rabidly

I don't know about "rabidly hostile." Campbell badgered him because he was avoiding the question.

You couldn't see media bias

You couldn't see media bias if it bit you on your nose.  Campbell badgered him because she is absolutely in-the-tank for Obama and the Dems like the rest of the MSM. 

Right Ten7's - she wouldn't even let him answer the question

she kept interrupting him as he started to explain. It was a despicable display of outright nasty partisan journalism. If she had questioned Obama or his people this way (not letting them speak while viciously attaching them) it would still be outrageous behavior but at least fair.

She was much more aggressive than even Hannity who does not claim to be objective. She has no professionalism. These were Keith Olberman type tactics.

Again, my point is that this

Again, my point is that this is the right line of questioning from Campbell. The problem is that she didn't do it to Obama.

None of them have

None of them have questioned Obama's team at all... or at least with any real questions.... it's been a softball match for Democrats, and a plethora of baseball pitching machines set on high for the Republicans... they fire the questions off so rapidly, and then talk over the answers so often that I'm surprised that any Republican can get a word in edgewise. 

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"A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom." ~ Milton Friedman

Pretty Talking Head

Campbell Brown is just another clueless talking head obviously hired by CNN for her knowledge of government..Hah...LOL.  She should be embarrassed and is too stupid to realize how ignorant she came across.  Everyone in America knows that state governors are the respective Commanders in Chief of their National Guard units....and I believe Tucker said that in so many words.  When the National Guard unit is activated by the Federal Govt then they fall under the control of the President as ultimate CC.  She should be more worried about B Hussein's lack of experience than that of the Republican VP!

Give it to you baby?

Now that's professional.

Questioning

 

The people in the press should be asked about their qualifications.

 

Seems they can't put their job above partisin politics which makes them unqualified to do their job and should be in the unemployment line.

 

The man behind the Daily Kos is Barney Franks secret lover.

I think Franks is a large A--H--- or h-- o-- 

Yes I will argue it.....In response to Balboa above...

They have not done squat to vet Obambi. They have gone out of the way to suppress ANYTHING that may harm him. Now they all want to play journalists and make sure we know all what is needed to make a choice this fall. It is a joke.

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

allow me to love

allow me to love America

The 18 millions "ladies" who supported Ms Hillary- just maybe they just do not like the fact BHO, hangs out with TERRORISTS.
REV Wright, BILL Ayers: to name two. They like our Lady Gov and her American way of life. They may not like BOMB makers and anti American-Blacks Separatists.
Those 18 million are just old fashioned Americans??? Like the Lady Gov and John McCain.!

-those 18 million women do not want to pay higher taxes for give always to those illegal’s aliens, BHO is so inclined to help. Immigrants yes, illegal’s no!

Lady Gov and John McCain are true Americans-it must scare the hell out of CNN and the left.

I looks like Campbell had no clue

what Sarah Palin had done as Commander in Chief of The Alaskan National Guard until her friend John Dickerson dug up the information on the wildfire deployment. She was badgering Tucker Bounds because she thought that she knew that "The Whitehouse" made the decisions for the Alaskan National Guard.

I say , let CNN stew for a while until they can get a reporter or host who is willing to have a discussion rather than act as an interrogator badgering a witness.

CNN

CNN, the most trusted Name in Communist News
Respectfully,

DWill890

Cannibal Brown,

Cannibal Brown, such a fair and unbiased reporter. Giving people the unbiased facts, as seen though the eyes of an Obama supporter, you know Barack Obama, the chosen one, the Obamessiah,  


Respectfully,

DWill890

What Campell Brown was actually saying to Tucker Bounds

What Campell Brown was actually saying to Tucker Bounds

CAMPBELL BROWN: Tucker, foreign policy experience has been a huge issue in this campaign because you guys made it a big issue, pointing out John McCain has far more experience than Barack Obama

Read: "..we guys" didn't make the issue of foreign policy experience a big issue because our guy didn't have any. "We guys" were not about to fulfill our ethical responsibility as journalists covering a national race for the presidency and vet Obama out on the issue. My goodness, Tucker, we might have exposed Obama's weakness. We left it to "you guys" so that we could attack you for doing our work.

Seriously, this is a huge

Seriously, this is a huge weakness that any Obama supporter has to understand and be able to answer--and most of them can't, because they know BHO has no real record to tout, unless they think that voting "present" is a good thing.  ("All those times he voted 'present' meant that he was there on the floor, in support of the American people and the issues important to them!")  So they have to attack everybody else's experience.  But attacking McCain?  Big non-starter.  So they attack Palin, even though her experience trumps anybody on the "D" side of the ticket.

Honestly, I think CNN is trying to make up for lost time, since last week MSNBC got all the media attention (and remember, negative attention is still attention).  If I'm running the McCain/Palin campaign, I'm not doing any interviews with Chicken Noodle News or Must Support National Barack Campaign or any other MSM other than Fox News until these unreasonable and baseless attacks on the VP candidate stop.  Thank goodness they're jumping out ahead of the National Enquirer smear job.  Now, they need to do the same to the other news networks.

The MSM have no idea how

The MSM have no idea how much this type of behavior is going to come back and haunt them. I'm not even a woman, yet at this point I'm so offended by this behavior even if Obama could turn water into wine I wouldn't vote for him

Referring to Obama "I hope he'll win. I think he will. If he doesn't, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye . . .," Robert Redford

I hope it destroys

I hope it destroys any small bit of credibility they had left. And the Dem party!  Sarah Palin And Hateful Democrats - Bring It On! 

 

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What kind of wine?  That

What kind of wine? 

That would cost him the California and Washington vote.  Missouri might not vote for him either. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

Don't forget New York (huge

Don't forget New York (huge wine-making industry in the Finger Lakes region)!

I liked the "Hurricane

I liked the "Hurricane Sarah Hit's St. Paul" headline over at Drudge.

These people are more affraid of this woman than a cat 5 hurricane. Maybe Sarah is a cat 5.

I'm laughing at these shrill fools.

Limited Disclosure:  I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

allow me to love

allow me to love America

as the gov. she is in contact daily with the National Guard Commander.

what was nasty looking for-The Lady Gov. was going to invade Russia??

Is the Lady Gov. that big a threat? if that's the case,BHO has no spine or balls.

Fairness Doctrin

 

The reason the MSM is so for O Dumby is the Fairness douctrin.

 

They feel if it is put in place it will boost them back into mainstream news casting. Albiet it the communist douctrin.

 

 

Campbell Brown, OJT

I read in a east Texas newspaper a couple of months back when Ms Brown was having some growing pains in her new job that around CNN she is considered an Affirmative Action hire. Given the many problems with a number of her interviews this year during the campaign I suspect she was that type of hire.

There are 43 people with the kind of experience she requires.

  Unfortunately, 39 of them are dead.

  Only the former and current President(s) of the United States have the kind of experience she apparently is requiring in this interview.

  Only 2 of them can actually fill the shoes. The other 2 have reached term limits.

Campbell must believe the

Campbell must believe the world is a Coke commercial and Barack can teach us all to sing in perfect harmony.  Although, after listening to his speaking voice, I'm betting he's not that mellifluous. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

So, isn't this the point

So, isn't this the point where someone is supposed to write "Well, if McCain can't hold his own and defend himself against the likes of Campbell Brown and Larry King, how is he going to be able to hold his own against Achmajihad, Putin, Chavez, etc.?"   I know you'all would be writing that about Obama if he had done the same thing.

Not the same, nice try, a few points for trying.

   Sen. Obama has not appeared before any reporter that does nothing but gush teenybopper love for him.

   Sen. McCain has been very open to what is turning out to be the most hostile press in the history of pressydom.

CNN'S Brown

This is only one of many demonstrations of insanity from this frustrated woman. Anyone that doesn't agree that her attacks as well as all the other attacks by the MSM are not orchestrated by the Obama campaign, must be from another planet! McCain didn't leave his men behind and no network will make him leave Palin behind. 

At least they admit it,

At least they admit it, while trying to get us all to ignore it. 

BROWN:  No one's arguing with you he has much more experience than Barack Obama.

Let's translate that.  "We're willing to let some clown run the country, in a period of growing tension and hostility, because if we point out the obvious, our buddies will call us racists and he won't win."  And before some wank leaps upon the "growing tension and hostility", it is my sincere belief that the bulk of the problem with the perception of the US around the world can be laid at the door of our own press.  They are the advocates for all the wacko fringe groups around the world and can't give us credit for anything good we do because they want a lib in charge to allay their guilt, and pointing out the good would make it difficult to make that happen.  All the money and aid for disaster relief, AIDS work in Africa, and so on, is ignored by our MSM.  

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

Dan Senor

Will Campbells advocacy have an effect on Dan Senor's career. Is Senor a "David Gergen" Republican?

I honestly think that Bounds

I honestly think that Bounds didn't handle the interrogation very well. He tried too hard to stick to the talking points and wasn't very good on his feet at all. These so-called "journalist" pitbulls work for the campaign, and will continue going for the throat. Pitbulls don't care about consistency or fairness, so it's pointless arguing with them.

McCain's people need to keep up on their homework, and either be as congenial as they can (thus making the pitbulls look like *ssholes), or firestorm them right back in their faces like Newt (this is a lot trickier and can very well backfire).

Newt link

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zXi90EVeg

Life is too short to be serious

Ditzy

Campbell Brown is a ditz bag. There, I said it. She has no clue that her double standard and anger driven rough-up of her enemy (make no mistake, she sees the republicans as her mortal enemies) is laughably obvious to objective observers. She has no clue that she's bargaining for a for a backlash with her disgraceful behavior. She is in Dan Rather territory, showing to the country why she has long since sacrificed credibility to promote her ideology at any cost.

How's this for foreign policy experience

Here are 2 items:

1. She's currently negotiating with the Canadian government to run a natural gas pipeline across Canadian territory.

2. The Alaskan National Guard is on constant active duty, under the direction of the Alaskan governor, because they are the country's first line of defense vs. Russia.

Of course neither of these will matter to liberals. They will just ignore the facts and change the subject. "No, it's not about her experience. It's about the McCain camp not vetting her properly and not knowing that she has this experience." <sarc off>

Obama talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. McCain/Palin get things done.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 - "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."

What about Biden?

No need to educate the voters on his plagerism during the Dem Circus. No point to educate the viewers on his son being a lobbyist or any of his record in the Senate. Biden Voted against ousting Saddam from Kuwait back in 1990/1991.

I am so glad that McCain pulled the interview.

 

Drill here, Drill Now!

i think brown is exhibiting nothing more than jealousy ...

the looks, brains and brawn of palin are too much for a dope like campbell brown to accept.

If John McCain is scared

If John McCain is scared of Larry King how would he even be able to deal with the terrorists?

 

There's all kinds of terrorism...

... and not all involve bombs.

The MSM has been conducting themselves as terrorists.

I don't believe for one microsecond McCain is scared of Larry the Praying Mantis. He needs to make a point to CNN and jack them up on this, and I hope he sticks to his guns for once.

By turning down Larry King

By turning down Larry King all McCain is doing is admitting he will collapse under pressure.  Obama is willing  to go on Bill-O's show,  why doesn't McCain show everyone he's willing to explain his political positions under a little pressure.  If he doesn't,  it proves that he's weak and he's an appeaser. 

A joke post. And,

A joke post. But, unfortunately, it's not even funny joke. Though you are.

(Sure, Larry King is noted for his high pressure interviewing style. Ha Ha. "So.. John what's your take on astrology. Is red your favorite color?")

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

So you're saying McCain is

So you're saying McCain is so easily flummoxed he can't even withstand a softball interview from Larry King?

No, That's what you're

No, That's what you're saying. I'm surprised you didn't notice that.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Larry King???

HA! HA! HA! Touche'!

Does anyone even watch Larry King???

Not according to the ratings, so why waste your time?

PALIN/McCain 2008

Yup, McCain would absolutely

Yup, McCain would absolutely melt into a puddle under a devasting grilling from Larry 'The Grand Inquisitor' King.

OK, thanks - I'll be waiting for the announcement that your boy will join McCain in that series of townhall debates he's been avoiding like the plague.

Read the news once and

Read the news once and awhile. You might actually learn something.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/26/new-format-is-proposed-for-presidential-debates/

Read the post you're

Read the post you're responding to once in a while.

I said TOWNHALL debates.

"– and one would be in a

"– and one would be in a town hall format, where candidates can sit in stools or roam around."

Then the WSJ is incorrect in

Then the WSJ is incorrect in using the term 'town hall format' here because they are only referring to the seating arrangements and the candidate's freedom to roam around. Questions/topics are posed by the moderator.

Historically, a townhall debate format has always meant candidates answering direct questions from the general audience, not from a moderator who will be posing the questions. This is a fundamental difference from a traditional presidential debate.

That is what I initially meant by townhall debate... and what McCain proposed and Obama declined.

goldbar,

How long did it take for Obama to come on The Factor after he said he would almost a year ago?  Face the fact (though you probably aren't capable of that see as you're a liberal), Obama is only going on Bill's show now because the media are too busy attacking Palin to be glorifying him right now.  McCain not going on Larry King isn't because he is scared.  It's a way of boycotting a network that is working for the Obama campaign. Play fair, or we won't go on your network.  Makes perfect sense. 

Anclerson: I

Anclerson:

I disagree. 

The momentum of the past three weeks has shifted decisively to McCain.  This shift began during Obamas un-savvy "I hate America too" tour of europe and was magnified by more recent events.

O'Reilly also precipitated this measure by preparing a multi-part "meet Barack Obama" news series set for airing in the upcoming weeks.   

Obama has been holding this interview with O'Reilly as a last ditch "Fire the FPL/FPF" final measure which I am certain he hoped he would never have to perform.  Rather, he had hoped to get by on the generic words, "hope" and "change", but that is no longer possible since McCain has no outflanked him and he has to start taking big risks.

On the other hand, I expect O'Reilly to be gruff in his handling of Obama, but will take EVERY precaution to be fair, tot he point I doubt he will ask the same questions that we at NB will ask.

I think NB as a public service should start a "What would YOU ask Barack O" page to have "Pithy Questions" positioned.  We would then compare them to what O'Reilly actually asks.

 

Brown is now a debater

BROWN: "I appreciate you coming on and taking the time to have this DEBATE."

Hey Blitzer & Cooper, you geniuses, didn't Brown just out herself with this statement?

Since when does a guest come on and expect to 'debate' with the resident correspondent/reporter/analyst/host or whatever you refer to these shills as these days?

If its a debate, call it a debate. Last time I looked, debates require two opposing sides and Brown provided it.

McCain should make a stand and not grant CNN any more appearances, period. It won't hurt him, and will demonstrate that this MSM madness must be addressed at some point.

I saw Bob Beckel on Fox a few hours ago when he was given the news that Obama was appearing on BOR show. He said something to effect of 'you're kidding' and just stared into space dumbfounded unable to speak to the point where they had to switch the shot because he looked like a possum in the headlights. Hilarious.

Exactly SoL

Your observation is exactly what caught my attention after reading this post as well.

First as you astutely pointed out, in closing the segment Brown refers to her dialogue with her guest as a debate:

BROWN: "I appreciate you coming on and taking the time to have this debate."

But after the poop hits the fan at CNN with McCain withdrawing from the Larry King interview (debate?), then CNN goes in defense mode even changing Browns "debate" description to something much less damaging:

WOLF BLITZER: ...CNN does not believe Campbell's interview was over the line.

What interview Wolf?  It's obvious to anybody paying attention that this attack by Campbell was a debate (and that's being polite), not an interview - just ask Campbell Brown.  Keep changing the playing field CNN - you might be fooling yourselves but not most of your audience.

VP's and foreign policy

I have the perfect answer for the foreign policy question: As Vice President, I'll do what my President asks of me, no more and no less. You see, I don’t create policies as a VP, that’s the job of the President. It doesn't matter if that involves domestic or foreign policy. The President creates those policies and I will support him fully in any policy decision he makes. Next question, please.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

Did you guys watch the full

Did you guys watch the full video? There's a part where Brown brings up Bristol's kid (even after saying it should be off-bounds!), and Tucker looks really pissed. I think that's what drove this interview away. Don't buy the CNN spin!!

Frankly, I'm surprised

Wolf:  "Frankly, I was surprised that the McCain campaign reacted"

Frankly, I am surprised that Wolf still considers himself an unbiased journalist. 

Oh I see the usual little

Oh I see the usual little circle jerk of a lovefest with the critters on CNN protecting each other...defending the indefensible, but there they go again...

Job well done McCain...you need to do this more often in my opinion.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Absurd argument

The mere fact that someone is CiC of the Alaska National Guard carries with it the responsibility of making executive decisions.  It is absurd to expect an particular example of any particular thing she did or didn't decide to do as CiC of the ANG, particularly since a decision to NOT take an action may be just as important as a decision to act.  And this premise that a campaign spokesman's inability to elaborate on that experience somehow indicates that it doesn't exist... what an obscenely unintelligent bunch these press people are!

He should have just said, "I'm not in a position to comment on the daily decisions that she had to make, perhaps you should ask her or someone who had to implement her decisions.  The fact remains, though, that she held that responsibility.  Obama didn't."

 

 

 If I were McCain, not only

 If I were McCain, not only would I not show up on CNN, ever, I would expressly forbid anyone in my administration from ever showing up on anything having to do with CNN. Or NBC for that matter.  There is nothing anywhere that guarantees he or anyone in his administration has to kow-tow to any of them.  What are they going to do, say bad things about him? Big deal.  Show some backbone.  It would sure do well for him in the polls if he did this. I guarantee it.

Boycott Liberal MSM

I've been saying this for years! Why go on a network that's only purpose is to damge you any way they can?

Journalism is dead in the MSM. That being the case, appearances should be on the 'Fair and Balance' network only.

PALIN/McCain 2008

Although I've known it was

Although I've known it was the Communist News Network, I watched CNN until this week because it was worth it to see Robin Meade.  I stopped watching this week because of their coverage of Governor Palin I read about here and on FR.

Robin's not in this clip, I know, but it just makes me sick to my stomach.  Demanding an answer all the while insisting she isn't taking sides; seeking to paint Governor Palin as someone who got her position from her appearance alone.

Does Brown think she's invisible?

What was wrong with that?

What was wrong with what Ms. Brown did? That is her job! She was trying to get that idiot to answer the question.

Brown has a complex

This transcript is so self serving, the "I"s dominate Brown's statements and questions.  I I ME ME, this is a complex.  She needs more Meds...

Campbell Brown misses an

Campbell Brown misses an important point...all governors do not have foreign policy expereince. Bill Clinton did not, Jimmy Carter did not in fact no governor has had  foriegn expereince.

Ronald Reagan also did not but kicked some soviet butt.

 

Her questioning is ridiculous as all our president since Carter have been governors. Palin makes it even more so as she is running for VP. not president.

Campbell Brown attended government school.

'nuff said.

-Dave.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running
mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him -- a reason,
that is, other than B. Hussein Obama.-
Ann Coulter

GMA Flunkie

Campbell is a GMA flunkie because she couldn't even be impartial on that show. CNN (Communist News Network) is so liberal that they don't see the double standard in this interview. They just don't get it, because in their minds, there are conservatives, and everybody else. In their minds, liberals don't exist.

Uglie Faces

One other thing, I saw the original airing of the interview. An impartial reporter doesn't make ugly faces when they don't get the answers that they want. Campbell's face was distorted, grimicing, furrowing, and seems to have frozen that way.

bobbleheads! bobbleheads!

Lord, Help Us! 

The Bobbleheaded Campbell Brown, along with her sistas in the MSM-

  You have been and continue to be, a total embarrassment to women everywhere.  Pathetic, hypocritical idiots!  So much for feminism, sticking up for females in elected office, or any of your other b.s.  Card-carrying liberals who are quicker to slash a woman to pieces in the blink of an eye; just after complaining about 'sexism' in the way, supposedly, that poor Hilary was treated!  I got a kick out of Norah O'Donnell questioning if Sarah Palin could mother her children properly as VP- and, dear mom, where exactly are your three under-2-year-olds at the moment???

   What breath-taking chutzpah the elites have to feel content to even open their mouths about 'unwed' mothers!  You can only laugh at them!

   The MSM acts like no one gets pregnant if they get sex ed!  They glorify teen sexual activity, for God's sake! There would be a story if Palin wanted her daughter to get an abortion after proclaiming she was pro-life.  Hello, MSM, she is showing what's called sticking-to-your-values and word, integrity, and fortitude by supporting her daughter to do the right thing, and not what's a more convenient and tidy result for her political career!

   I didn't think I could hold the MSM in more contempt but they are really putting on the show this week, huh? 

   

I agree with everyone here, nicely put guys...but I feel like repeating myself about Campbell Brown and all the dopes she 'works' with out there.... 

   Phony, phony, phonies!  Obama is the candidate for president with ties to terrorists who hate America, who wants to sit down with enemies of this country's existence without any expectations of them, etc, and even had the gall to suggest I and other Americans should be embarrassed that I don't speak Spanish!  Does he, btw?

   Sarah Palin exposes you as the DNC koolaid drinkers you really are, not to mention the disingenuous and false 'feminism' you supposedly thump your chest about. 

    You have no clue what real America stands for and is about!  You just have disdain for whatever-it-is!   Elite pieces of shite, I hope Sarah Palin makes you eat it!

Didn't Sen McCain remark

when asked if he would consider the VP slot in the past that,

"The Vice President has two jobs, attend funerals and inquire daily about the health of the President".

 

OMG, she's got them shaking in their boots.

 

Our governor's hotter than your Senator...both of them put together.

Whoa! Lock n' load,

Whoa! Lock n' load, Kathleen!