Brian Williams tells McCain: ‘You got a very nice reception.’
By on Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Brian Williams tells McCain: ‘You got a very nice reception.’
Despite the fact that John McCain faced some heckling from the audience today after acknowledging he “was wrong” to vote against the MLK day legislation in 1983, NBC anchor Brian Williams told him, “You got a very nice reception from the ground.” Watch it:
McCain told Williams he was proud to have later worked “very hard” to get MLK day recognized in the state of Arizona. But in 1987, when then-governor Evan Mecham rescinded the holiday, McCain said Mecham was “correct in his decision.”
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How many times will I get to use this phrase in the coming months:
ALL ABOARD THE PANDER EXPRESS!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pmDon’t need to watch it. We know he is a disengenuous.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pmDon’t need to watch it. We know he is a disengenuous.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pmThe best thing about the interview was, the whole thing was drowned out by the speaker in the background. It was difficult to focus on what McCain was saying much less hear him. It was a sad and pathetic performance and excuse for an apology. McCain emerged from this week’s news cycle a diminished spectacle and an irrelevancy who stood in the way of civil rights progress offering only the most token argument in support of his position opposing the establishment of MLK day. I watched this on TV and didn’t know whether to burst out laughing or gag.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pm.
Johnny McFlipflop was against the holiday before he was for it.
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April 4th, 2008 at 7:38 pm.
Johnny McFlipflop apologises 25 years latter ONLY because he needs the black communities vote to become the next McDecider.
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April 4th, 2008 at 7:41 pm#6 progressman Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Why just attack Obama and not include Hillary… ?
April 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pmWe also knows where Barack stands. And its not with John McCain lingers.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pmAnd who is brian williams?
April 4th, 2008 at 7:45 pmDoddering white fool speak with forked tongue. Village idiot covers for doddering white fool.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pmBrian Williams: “You got a very nice reception from the ground, the boos and heckling were polite”
McCain: We don’t cotton to the needs and wants of Black folk here in Arizona, until we’re forced to.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pmNice to see TP going after Rush Limbaugh’s Number #1 Fan Brian Williams.
Remember this Golden Oldie from Mr. Willaims:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
SOMEONE WAKE UP JOHN RIP VAN WINKEL IN 25 YEARS AND LET HIM KNOW THAT IRAQ WAS A BAD IDEA TOO.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:19 pmMcCain is funny if the NBA, NFL, NHL and Government/Companies hadn’t boycotted Arizona he still wouldn’t have a King Holiday. Now as for McCain’s apology it makes since to lie for a vote. If elected he would recall the King Holiday for sure. Brian Williams to really love his job to have to be nice to McCain knowing McCain is a true racist. Brian should have said he had a cold and needed someone to step in for the McCain interview.
Obama didn’t need to show up as he’s been using Dr. King for votes. It might seem a little odd for those to listen to Dr. King’s speech and then here how Obama has changed the meaning of the King Speech.
Leahy, Pelosi and other Senior Law Makers sucking up to Obama were right to ask Hillary to step down. President Clinton signed the Bill for the MLK Monument in Washington DC. Yes the Clintons have been working for Civil Rights during Dr. King’s life and death while Obama just got to read the title I Have A Dream but didn’t bother to read the message he was giving. So if anyone chooses to read what Dr. King did say they will find out it’s nothing like what Obama is saying. Mr. and Mrs. Obama might want to thank Hillary for the years in college as she set up a recruitment for Blacks to enroll in colleges that both Obama’s benefited from, but I wont wait for that. Obama is now selling the snake oil story that his Father got to come to the US because of President Kennedy, only problem is it was President Kennedy but the story sounds good and Americans will buy it.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:39 pmDo we need a President that requires 40 years to get a clue?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm#4 Snowball
I agree the best part of the interview was that is was drowned out by the speech in the background. The only part I really caught was at the end when he said” I’m humble to be here”.
Spare us the disingenuous rhetoric. We know how you truly feel about the holiday.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pmMartin Luther King, Jr.
Ditto. I saw this live also and was wondering, WTF. Can’t they afford those little tiny earmuff gizmos that have little microphone thingys on them, or what??
April 4th, 2008 at 11:01 pmHe always gets a very nice and unearned reception. He is plain frightening and every Democrat on the planet needs to be saying this every day (with charts and video).
April 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pmThe corporate media serves a a big pile of crap to America everyday and Brian Williams’ job is to sell that crap.
This is the same corporate America that sold those cigarettes that didn’t cause cancer and weren’t addictive, that said seatbelts weren’t necessary, that pushed America to feed junk food to it’s kids.
They will continue to sell crap until they can no longer get away with it, meaning; YOU STOP BUYING IT.
Anyone who trusts television to give you real information is a fool.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:44 pmWhat a tool Williams was. I noticed people pointedly looking up at him. Does he even know how to speak softly? And, how do I put this delicately, he was more or less in the direction the shots came from.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:05 amHey in case anyone was wondering, theres still an alternative in the republican party, and his name is Ron Paul. And he’s old, I’ll give you that. But he’s wise. McCain, he’s senile.
April 5th, 2008 at 1:29 amBut in 1987, when then-governor Evan Mecham rescinded the holiday, McCain said Mecham was “correct in his decision.”
Mecham — I’d almost forgotten him. The “picanninny” guy!
– Wikipedia article on Evan Mecham.
Back in the day, I was wondering who’d ever picaninny like him for governor. And McCain defended his racism?!
April 5th, 2008 at 1:43 amThe corporate media propagandists have succeeded in making Clinton look racist and McCain look like a multiculturalist.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:21 amPolls cited last night by Rachel Maddow (while sitting in for KO) have McCain 5 points behind both Obama and Hillary. Last week he was closer (maybe even ahead in one). I still have hope that he will continue to poll lower as America catches on to what a two-faced, psycho, racist old geezer he really is.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am