Totally unexpected SHOCKER! "McCain Stacks Fox News 'Town Hall' With Supporters"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain Stacks Fox News 'Town Hall' With Supporters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/12/mccain-stacks-fox-news-to_n_106881.html



Tonight was the first in a much-hyped series of 'town hall' forums scheduled by John McCain's campaign, in which Barack Obama had been challenged to show up to discuss the issues directly with the GOP nominee.

Except, as Fox News reported, McCain's campaign misled the public about the nature of the event. The forum was "billed by the McCain campaign as a town hall with independent and Democratic voters," but Fox News noted at the end that the audience was actually "made up of invited guests and supporters," the Democratic National Committee said in a statement.

Here is FNC's Shepard Smith breaking the news: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/12/mccain-stacks-fox-news-to_n_106881.html

SMITH: "I reported at the top of this hour that the campaign had told us at Fox News that the audience would be made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We have now received a clarification from the campaign and I feel I should pass it along to you. The McCain campaign distributed tickets to supporters, Mayor Bloomberg, who of course is a registered Republican, and other independent groups."

DNC Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement:

"Once again John McCain's campaign is trying to mislead the American people. Senator McCain should understand that after seven years of a President who has divided Americans and pursued a scorched earth policy full of misleading propaganda campaigns, we need a leader who understands he is the President for all Americans not just his supporters. Copying the Bush campaign model of stacking events with his prescreened supporters is not the transparency Americans are looking for. If that is Senator McCain's idea of straight talk, the American people are in for a long and disappointing campaign season."

[Anexio]

1. I watched it

and there wasn't one AA in the entire audience.

Weird.

[Robbien]

11. And you are not asleep?

Listening to McCain's monotone voice drone for a whole hour has to be one of the best cures for insomnia.

[greenbriar]

2. YOU GO GOV DEAN

"Once again John McCain's campaign is trying to mislead the American people. Senator McCain should understand that after seven years of a President who has divided Americans and pursued a scorched earth policy full of misleading propaganda campaigns, we need a leader who understands he is the President for all Americans not just his supporters. Copying the Bush campaign model of stacking events with his prescreened supporters is not the transparency Americans are looking for. If that is Senator McCain's idea of straight talk, the American people are in for a long and disappointing campaign season."




bbbbbooooooooooyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaa

[skooooo]

5. That's all the repubs can do....

...they don't know how to deal with real people.

[opihimoimoi]

3. McCLONE does the redux of BUSH...photo op meeting....whad a dufus.

Pub Participants...OMG...who woulda thought...?

[pdxmom]

4. So FOX just gave their only news hour of the night to a partisan campaign

event for McCain. What a bunch of tools.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. I can't beleive there are still people(?) who want four_moran_years of this.

n/t

[rebel with a cause]

7. I can't believe that fox news

admitted that mccain did this. Of course, it was probably admitted because they knew it was already found out and they threw mccain 'under the bush' to save themselves from having to admit they knew about it all along.

[spag68]

9. Fox news

Just because fox is filled with assholes, doesn't mean they are stupid. They have grasped the fact that the Dems will soon be in charge and are covering their collective asses.

[rebel with a cause]

12. I hear you

:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

8. Obama should agree to one of these

and then have 20,000 of his supporters peering in through the windows and chanting "Yes we can!" from outside.

Doubt McCain will ask for another one of those again.

[Forkboy]

10. Well there's a big surprise. He's a friggin' weasel.

[Imagevision]

13. Another lesson McBush learned from George, he's copying the whole gig...!

[fortyfeetunder]

14. Wonder why McCain is insisting Obama join him in this event

setting up a court with his own home field advantage?

[Swamp Rat]

15. Obama should just make a counter offer on his turf every time.

Wash rinse repeat ad infinitum.

[anonymous171]

16. He had obviously hoped OBama would show up and have to endure questions about his "Muslim Roots"

for the duration of the town hall.