ABC Shockers
Shocking, I tell you. Who’d have thought? Newsbusters, ABC edited out parts that make Palin look smarter, less warmongery.
Related, not particularly different: ABC’s “View” hags rag* on McCain. Boston Herald:
Talk about pitbulls with lipstick!
John McCain found himself facing a snarling, lipsticked pack on ABC’s “The View,” as the usually friendly hosts hit him repeatedly on his campaign ads and his own character, ABC reported.
“We know these ads are lies,” said co-host Joy Behar. “But you say ‘I approve these messages.’ Do you really approve them?”
She was disputing the notion that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama intentionally insulted GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick on a pig” to counter McCain’s claim he represents change; and another ad’s claim that Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners.
“Actually, they are not lies,” McCain said. He was interrupted by Barbara Walters, who noted he had used the lipstick phrase himself. McCain countered that he used it to refer to former Democratic contender Hillary Clinton’s health-care plan.
On the sex-ed ad, McCain said, “Teaching kids sex is not all right. (Obama) shouldn’t have said it. He chooses his words very carefully,and this is a tough campaign.”
Obama told Planned Parenthood last year that sex education for kindergartners, as long as it is “age-appropriate,” is “the right thing to do,” ABC reported.
Even lone “View” conservative, Boston College grad Elisabeth Hasselbeck, said, “You’re not going to get softballs from me,even though you have my vote.” She grilled McCain on whether he and Palin would try to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I think what we’d be doing is appointing or nominating justices to the United States Supreme Court and other courts who strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States,” said McCain, adding, “Roe v. Wade was a very bad decision.” The audience booed.
Behar charged McCain is now “much more lockstep with George Bush’s policies,” no longer “the same old John McCain who used to really buck the system.”
“What specific have I, quote, changed? Nobody can name it,” McCain replied. “The point is, I’m the same person with the same principles, whether spending, climate change, the conduct of the war in Iraq, torture of prisoners - no matter what it is.”
ABC reported that in a commercial break, Barbara Walters asked the audience if “The View” hosts were being too rough on McCain. The crowd shouted said no.
via Malkin: Whoopie to McCain, “Should I worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery?”
* Any perceived sexist slur entirely unintentional, in fact ridiculous. I’m obviously refering to their policies. It’s a pig/lipstick thing.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:48 pm on Saturday, September 13, 2008
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September 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
This is the kind of thing that inflames and polarises us. McCain, a man who endured the cruel, life-threateniing actions of a non-enlightened people, does not try to impose his belief in life at all costs on the rest of us, who’ve never experienced what he has.
McCain is opposed by people who have different world views: let us for once acknowledge that many of them view their world through the prism of race. Obama’s problem is, there are too few who oppose his racial identity (which he chose, being half-white), and too many who saw it as a defining characteristic. He had a message in the beginning that sought to get beyond that. The ugly truth is, racial politics in America is too good, too politically useful, to give up. And these are the people who will defeat him.