Toobin just called out the whole CNN Panel. Said they were gullable

[Thrill]

Saying McCain hasn't suspended his campaign. And everyone is buying into his scam.

Of course Wolf tried to claim but but he hasn't done any townhalls today. LOL

[PCIntern]

1. wolfie is beneath contempt...

He's a hen-pecked loser who, by default, inherited CNN's prime-time, when that loser gal what's-her-name, screwed up. Badly.

[babylonsister]

2. Good for Toobin: I just came across this...

WHAT DOES A 'SUSPENDED' CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE?.... Just this morning, in New York, John McCain was pretty straightforward about his perspective on the campaign: "I cannot carry on a campaign as though this dangerous situation had not occurred, or as though a solution were at hand, which it clearly is not. As of this morning I suspended my political campaign."

Got it. So, what does a "suspended" campaign look like? As it turns out, it's eerily similar to a regular ol' campaign.

What have we learned since McCain suspended his presidential campaign?

* McCain campaign offices in battleground states are open and operating, just like yesterday.

* McCain's television ads are on the air, just like yesterday.

* McCain media flacks are all over the news networks, just like yesterday.

* McCain's campaign staffers are working, just like yesterday.

* McCain's campaign website is up, soliciting contributions and promoting McCain's message, just like yesterday.

* For the big White House meeting today, Barack Obama was told not to bring any campaign aides, so he's bringing a legislative assistant from his Senate staff. John McCain is bringing a campaign advisor.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I get the sinking feeling that maybe, just maybe, the "suspension" announcement was some kind of (gasp!) gimmick, and that nothing has actually changed at McCain Campaign HQ.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014884.php

[krkaufman]

11. Thanks for the post and reference link.

What no one really seems to be highlighting, though, is McCain's lack of urgency... what I'm calling his My Pet Goat moment. If the crisis is so severe and McCain's collaboration so critical, then why did McCain not fly back to DC until Thursday, weeks after the crisis began, nearly 24 hours after his "suspension" announcement, and after sitting for an interview with Katie Couric and making a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative.

[dennis4868]

3. I hate when Wolfie....

does that shit...it's so fake!

[kenny blankenship]

4. And the whole conference idea having both Obama and McCain present was labeled unproductive

by at least Borger , w no dissent heard, but no one pointed out that this theatrical waste of time happened at McCain's insistence.

[fishwax]

5. yep -- it was a good point

Good job, Toobin :applause:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. I have a very good book by Mr. Toobin's father, Jerome Toobin.

"Agitato: A Trek Through the Musical Jungle" about his adventures in the classical music biz in New York City.

[fishwax]

13. sounds interesting--i didn't know that his father had that background

[neverforget]

6. It was a balanced panel too with Stephen Hayes Right Wing Lunatic

and 2 journalists. Where was the Democrat to represent the Democratic view?

[kenny blankenship]

8. And one of those journalists Gloria Borger is a GOP fluffer from Way The Hell Back

[neverforget]

14. GOP fluffer......that's awesome!

[vaberella]

9. I love Toobin. He obviously hates the panel I think...paticularly Blitzer. n/t

[shaniqua6392]

10. I just saw a McCain ad played on t.v. here in Michigan.

It was criticizing Obama for the bailout and said he and the Dems were to blame for the whole thing. His campaign is NOT suspended!

[Overseas]

12. That ad is following the GINGRICH Plan. Check out this clip

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/gingrich-mccain.html

If McCain were to come out against the bailout plan, Gingrich said that Republicans would rally to his side and it would become possible for the McCain-Palin ticket to style itself as "taking on the Bush-Obama establishment."

"Either McCain is going to go along" with Obama in supporting the plan, said Gingrich, "in which case the establishment will have the fix in . . . or you are going to see McCain decide, much in the way that he did in picking Palin, that, in fact, he is a genuine maverick, that he genuinely defends the taxpayers, and that this is a terrible bill."

"If the latter happens," Gingrich continued, "I think you will see the emergence overnight of a 'McCain Reform Wing of the Republican Party' and you'll see House and Senate members siding with McCain by overwhelming margins and then you'll be in a very different political environment. You'll have 'Bush-Obama ads' on the one side and 'taking on the Bush-Obama establishment' on the other side, and that will be, frankly, one of the more amazing elections."