McCain claims he didn't chide media in speech - video shows different

[sabra]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/McCain_DID_deliver_line_tweaking_press.html

John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary Clinton her due. But video from McCain's address shows him giving the line as written.

"The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans," McCain said in a nationally-broadcast speech in Kenner, Lousiana. "And she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometime received."

Asked about this statement in an interview last week with Newsweek's Holly Bailey and Jon Meacham, McCain interjected, "I did not {say that}—that was in prepared remarks, and I did not {say it}—I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage."

Presented with video showing that the GOP nominee did in fact read the remarks as they were prepared, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said Newsweek's account of McCain's answer is "paraphrased and unclear."

Rogers said he was not questioning the magazine's transcription, but pointing out that they included brackets.

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Newsweek's Bailey said the McCain quote as included in their q-and-a posted online was verbatim.

[speedoo]

1. Yet another fuckup.

Does McCain ever not create a problem for himself whenever he opens his mouth?

[DerekJ]

2. "You Little Jerk"

[hisownpetard]

3. I really think he's lost it (if he ever had it to begin with). nt

[Lerkfish]

4. I"m confused why it matters either way.

:shrug:

[sabra]

6. McCain seems to have a "youtube problem" - forgets that things are available

on the Internet(s)

[Lerkfish]

10. sorry I wasn't clear: I know he can't keep track of his own words, I meant I don't

know why it would matter if he did or did not say he felt sorry for clinton and how she was treated.

seems a lose/lose position for him to take anyways. so not sure how saying it or not saying it benefits him at all, nor why he feels the need to deny it.

[DAGDA56]

5. His staff needs to sit him down and say "assume cameras are everywhere...

....and everything, EVERYTHING you say is being recorded on video and audio." That is, of course, if the thought has occurred to his staff.

[Wickerman]

7. or not

I am more fond of the "off the cuff" MCain. :evilgrin:

[DAGDA56]

8. You're right...sorry, I was thinking about what I would do if I were a

McCain staffer...ewwww...I think I'm going to go lie down now...

[TahitiNut]

9. Short-term memory problem, John??

Take your Aricept?

:eyes:

[Youphemism]

11. More Fodder for "StraightTalk Express" YouTube segways. /nt

[AndyTiedye]

12. "Straight-Shooter" Shoots Self in Foot

[NotThisTime]

13. He's lost his freaking mind.... He sounds like someone who's closed his eyes and shut his ears....

[pdxmom]

14. It isn't even so much that he denies saying it, but when he's confronted

with it on tape, he still denies it. And even worse, his flunkies back him up on his delusions.