McCain Backers Lash Out at Media for Obama ‘Advocacy’




A person in the audience at a McCain rally in Scranton, PA took the mic and proceeded to give the media ' a piece of her mind' regarding the preferential treatment Obama is getting. I think she said what has been on all of our minds for awhile now.

From Fox News

McCain Backers Lash Out at Media for Obama ‘Advocacy’

By Bill Sammon

John McCain’s campaign and a supporter at a McCain rally separately accused the press of favoring Barack Obama on Monday, with McCain’s top strategist calling The New York Times a “pro-Obama advocacy organization.”

“Let’s be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this race, which is this: Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not — by any standard — a journalistic organization,” strategist Steve Schmidt told reporters on a conference call. “It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor [Sarah] Palin and excuses Senator Obama.”

Schmidt accused the Times of giving Obama a pass on his “deceitful ads” and abdicating its journalistic responsibility to vet Obama’s “background and past statements.” It was an unusually harsh critique for a campaign that last year enjoyed largely favorable press coverage.

“This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate,” Schmidt fumed. “It is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate — in this case John McCain — and to advocate for the election of the other candidate — Barack Obama.”

Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, issued a written statement responding to Schmidt’s broadside.

“The New York Times is committed to covering the candidates fully, fairly and aggressively,” Keller wrote. “It’s our job to ask hard questions, fact-check their statements and their advertising, examine their programs, positions, biographies and advisers. Candidates and their campaign operatives are not always comfortable with that level of scrutiny, but it’s what our readers expect and deserve.”

The exchange came on a day when one woman in the audience at a McCain event in Scranton, Pa., grabbed a microphone, turned toward the assembled press and accused the journalists of liberal bias. The woman ripped reporters for focusing on the pregnant teenage daughter of Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee, while largely ignoring Obama’s ties to radical Bill Ayers and controversial Chicago businessman Tony Rezko.

“We want the media to start doing their job and stop picking on little children because of their age and their pregnancies,” she exclaimed. “Shame on you! Shame on all of ya’s!”

As the audience cheered, McCain interjected: “That is a great question! One thing I want to assure you of is that Governor Palin, she can take it.”

Bill Sammon is FOX News Channel’s Washington deputy managing editor.


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Oh, this was a wonderful moment...the sound bite was on Fox

This was almost a good as the wonderful woman at a McCain townhall who stood up and ranted for 3 minutes on taxes.

Excellent.

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