http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/07/13/brokaw-proposes-mccain-bashing-democrat-tv-ad">Brokaw Proposes McCain-Bashing Democrat TV AdCheck this out:
Speaking with RNC Victory 2008 chair and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, and Obama's national co-chair, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri),
Brokaw actually said the following (video of some of this interview added below the fold):Both campaigns have had difficulty this past week with accusations of flip-flopping.
Let me begin with Ms. Fiorina. You said that your candidate, John McCain, he's a man
that the American people understands, that he walks the talk. But let me just share with
you what I think could be a Democratic ad come this fall.
The ad will begin,"Oh really?" after quoting you. "Here's a man who voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he wants to make them permanent. Here's a man who is worried about global warming, now he wants to give American motorists a gas tax holiday so they can drive even more during the summer months. Here's a man who called Phil Gramm a trusted economic adviser, had him on the bus and in pictures with him. Now he disowns him. Here's a man who said he really wasn't up to speed on the issue of whether birth control should be covered by insurance policies; in fact, he voted against it."
A supposedly impartial journalist proposing a Democrat ad to a Republican campaign manager that included four possible flip-flops.
Yet, when it came time to show some balance and do the same to his Democrat guest, only one of Obama's flip-flops was addressed:
Senator McCaskill, your own candidate has had his own difficulties this past week in explaining his positions, sometimes in the same day. Let's begin with a well-known, now, sound bite about what he would do in Iraq.The "let's begin with" was a smokescreen, for Brokaw never quizzed McCaskill about Obama's recent changes of heart concerning taking public funds for his campaign, telecom immunity related to FISA and terrorist surveillance, handgun rights, and the death penalty.
Why not, Tom? And why didn't you grill McCaskill about Obama's economic policies the same way you did Fiorina (video embedded below, Brokaw's question to Fiorina underneath):
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