John McCain’s P.R. Mistake (McCain: Pathological liar with an uncontrollable temper)

[ProSense]

John McCain’s P.R. Mistake

September 16th, 2008
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

Someone in McCain camp might take Senator John McCain aside for a little chat — or perhaps meditation. In a week when the mainstream news media is starting to pile on McCain for a growing credibility gap and when Wall Street’s national financial catastrophe has overshadowing the Sarah Palin issue(s) McCain is showing signs of being a candidate who in danger of shooting himself in the foot — with his mouth.

When a politician goes after a newsperson or anchor who asks a journalistic question so basic that a student from a journalism school could have it as part of an assignment in interviewing a politician it means several things:

(1)The politician is feeling the heat and trying to deflect a question that is not helpful to his campaign s he tries to discredit the reporter. (2)The politician is tired and testy…something that will not help McCain if he is seen as brittle in public at a time when he is under fire for ads that are less than truthful. (3)He either has handlers who are not doing their work or they’re underestimating who actively going after reporters can stiffen the resolve of news and morning show editors editors, reporters to ensure that the candidate will be asked the tough questions that are “out there”).

Watch John McCain go after MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinksi after she asks a basic question that McCain and his advisors should have anticipated so he could rattle off a response and just let it go. Note the response from others on the show. McCain supporters who think the media is all evil — and not all McCain supporters do — will cheer this, but the lingering image to those not actively working for the McCain campaign is of a fakely smiling McCain unable to control his emotions and trying to discredit a reporter as an “Obama supporter” because she dared to ask a hard question. A testy versus tough guy.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Yet Chris Matthews has never called him "Capt. Queeg," another famous navy man who...

had trouble controlling his temper.

Too busy calling Hillary Clinton names: Madam deFarge, Lady MacBeth, Nurse Ratched...

[bunnies]

2. The OP has NOTHING to do with Matthews or HRC.

Why do this shit?

[Captain Hilts]

3. His temper is one of his most dominant personality traits - yet the MSM ignores it...

The absence of such a temper is one of Obama's strengths, it's why he has the temperament to be Prez and McCain does not.

The media LOVES McCain and ignores this important aspect to his personality while making up shit about others, like Clinton.

[anonymous171]

5. Matthews is a tool.

During the primaries he was so annoying. Will "regular people" support Obama? Is orange juice elitist? Will Obama's choice of tie affect him in the polls?

[Captain Hilts]

12. Yeah, I hated that crap. It's a small jump from there to Edwards' haircut. nt

[ProSense]

4. More exposure

for McMean

[ErinBerin84]

6. the strangest part was

that the question WAS very basic, and by no means "tough" or "hard".

[Cha]

8. So mccain shot his "accusing a pundit of being an Obama supporter"

wad for nothin'.

[Cha]

7. Wow! I saw that clip of mccain on mj

and all I could think of was how monotonal and Blinking Boring he was.. it didn't dawn on me until now how he was trying to discredit mika's "hard question" with discrediting mika..what a sleezebucket.

That's what I remember Barbra Streisand saying about mccain way back in the early part of the Century when he made a comment about her on SNL..he said she should just sing and leave the politics to them. I wrote her about that and she wrote back..they don't like the message so they try and kill the messenger.

[roguevalley]

9. they are starting on walt moneghan. go to the daily news and see

it. www.adn.com

I was a rights person for 25 years and this is what is true:

1. if it isn't written on the paper, he isn't subordinate.
2. they are discrediting him period.
3. they are beyond sleazy.

[Cha]

10. Of course they are! Alaska's getting right in the middle of palin sleeze..

I'm betting on Walt Monegan..who's with me?! :toast: :patriot: :patriot:

[roguevalley]

13. me

[Cha]

14. Good! Here's to the victorious tenacity of Walt Monegan!

:toast: :patriot:

[11 Bravo]

11. And the question that set him off was if an OBAMA ad was fair. It was a friendly question!

Grandpa is losing it in full view of the American electorate.