Fox: John McCain Has Known Georgia's Pres. "For 25 Years" - Since Saakashvili as 16 yrs old?

Fox: John McCain Has Known Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili "For 25 Years" — Since Saakashvili Was 16 Years Old?
Fox is pulling out all the stops to try to make John McCain look presidential and worldly in the face of the conflict in Georgia. As a matter of fact, one would think he is the president. Over the course of three segments on the issue today (August 12, 2008) on Your World w/Neil Cavuto, George Bush was mentioned only once, in passing, in a negative way.

But, one wonders if they're stretching the truth, ah, just a bit. Don't get me wrong. I'm just sayin' that this sounds mighty suspicious:

Carl Cameron interviewed John McCain at a campaign stop in York, Pennsylvania today. Appearing on Your World, he gave the audience a taste of what they discussed (I got the impression a long interview would be broadcast later on Fox, though neither Cameron nor Cavuto said when). This is part of what Cameron said: "Senator McCain actually talked to president Saakashvili every day since the invasion by Russia into Georgia took place. He calls the Georgia president a friend. Says he's known him for 25 years, ah, calls him Misha, the nickname of Mikheil."


more:http://www.newshounds.us/2008/08/12/fox_john_mccain_has_known_georgias_president_mikheil_saakashvili_for_25_years_since_saakashvili_was_16_years_old.php

or perhaps he's trading in on his aides memories:

Scheunemann Helped U.S. Firm Win Georgian Energy Deals While Lobbying For Georgia’s NATO Membership»
Earlier today, Russia sent troops into a breakaway region of Georgia “after Georgian troops sought to enter the capital of the pro-Russian enclave.” As Matt Duss noted at the Wonk Room, the invasion “raises some questions about how a McCain administration might deal with a crisis like this,” particularly because his top foreign policy adviser — Randy Scheunemann — has spent a number of years lobbying on behalf of Georgia and has publicly taken strong pro-Georgia, anti-Russia positions.

Last May, USA Today reported that Scheunemann’s lobbying firm, Orion Strategies, represented Georgia between 2003 and March 2008 and that Scheunemann himself lobbied McCain’s Senate staff on behalf of Georgia while working for McCain’s presidential campaign.

Also, freelance journalist Lindsay Beyerstein reported last month that Scheunemann serves as Worldwide Strategic Energy’s (WSE) point man on Georgia, helping the energy firm score deals with the Georgian government to assist in the development of its “hydrocarbon industry.” From a WSE internal document obtained by Beyerstein:

Randy Scheunemann is a registered representative of the Government of Georgia in the United States. Accordingly, Mr. Scheunemann has developed a very close relationship with President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and many senior Georgian officials. The WSE team has also begun negotiating possible deals with the Georgian state-run oil company, National Oil Company of Georgia, to assist in the development of Georgia’s hydrocarbon industry.

more:http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Ow0_3YOPTxYJ:thinkprogress.org/2008/08/08/scheunemann-mccain-georgia/+Scheunemann+Georrgia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Randy Scheunemann — A Chalabyist»
USA Today reports on the lobbying career of John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann, noting that Schuenemann “lobbied the Arizona senator’s staff on behalf of the republic of Georgia while he was working for the campaign”:

Randy Scheunemann, founder of Orion Strategies, represented the governments of Macedonia, Georgia and Taiwan between 2003 and March 1, according to the firm’s filings with the Justice Department. In its latest semiannual report, the firm disclosed that Scheunemann had a phone conversation in November about Georgia with Richard Fontaine, an aide in McCain’s Senate office.

As the article notes, in his capacity as McCain’s spokesman, Scheunemann often comments on issues directly relating to his firms’ clients. This was the case in an interview Scheunemann gave to Radio Liberty last month, in which Scheunemann attacked Russia’s policy toward Georgia while neglecting to disclose that he had been a paid lobbyist for Georgia until as late as December 2007.

The article notably does not mention one of the Chalabyist’s most significant and successful lobbying operations: the invasion of Iraq. Scheunemann served as president of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a neoconservative front group created in 2002. CLI coordinated with the Bush White House to gin up public support for the Iraq war by buttressing and echoing the administration’s various dubious claims about the threat posed by Saddam, and the quickness and ease of a war to remove him.

more:http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/21/chalabis-lobbyist/

taught him how to drive!

Gramps gave he and his girlfriend Svetlana a ride to the senior prom.

I sure hope his wife doesn't find out about that.

so what if he calls him Misha, I'm supposed to be impressed?...:eyes: For the record Carl Cameron is one of the biggest tools in television journalism.

"Same about that lip synching business though," he continued.

it's a closely guarded family secret.

a really big country with a really big army and so many nukes you could have doomsday times a thousand.

Hmmm?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/12/mccain-flubs-the-name-of-georgian-president/

Evidently he worked for the State Department in the early 90s and was a lawyer after that in the US till 1996.

What's next for faux? Lemme guess... Bush (D-TX) Impeached!

Perhaps he means this person whose name is so close in pronunciation?

"John Shalikashvili is a scion of the medieval Georgian noble house of Shalikashvili. His father, Prince Dimitri Shalikashvili served in the armies of Imperial Russia and then of the Democratic Republic of Georgia."

Above taken from Wikipedia.

:hi:

Because they are too dumb to know the difference. Surely the man hasn't known him since he was 15 or 16??

They tried to tell him the difference between the two men and he got it all screwed up as he's inclined to do.

Lieberman and Scheunemann. That was excellent.