McCain campaign threatened to cut off Newsweek’s access.
McCain campaign threatened to cut off Newsweek’s access.
Earlier this week, after Newsweek published a cover story examining the hardball tactics conservatives might use in the general election, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) “true partner” and longest-serving aide, Mark Salter, fired off a stinging retort that accused the magazine of being “biased.” Today, a Wall Street Journal profile of Salter reveals that he also “threatened to throw the magazine’s reporters off the campaign bus and airplane“:
He threatened to throw the magazine’s reporters off the campaign bus and airplane, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Salter says he expressed the campaign’s displeasure and is talking to the publication about future access.
Salter’s move to cut off Newsweek’s access is reminiscent of how in 2004, “a New York Times reporter assigned to cover Vice President Cheney was routinely excluded from the press plane.”
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I sure hope they don’t ban Rob Riggle from the “Straight Talk Distress”. I’d miss all those great remote reports on The Daily Show.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:08 amCan’t have any reporters that tell the truth now, can we?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:08 amI can’t wait for McTemper lashes out at some reporter on the campaign trail and says a big f_ck you.
Will the Corporate Controlled Network and other bought and sold press cover this?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:08 amI don’t read that scandelrag anyway, so I’m not missing anything.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:09 amThe “repugnant-can’ts” don’t survive well in the clear light of day. They’ll eventually have to cut off access from all media except for FoxSnooze and right-wing rant-jockeys who permit them to scurry around like roaches in the dark of night.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:09 amWhat was Newsweek thinking? The mccain response should bring them back into line, but probably the campaign office will get to pick the new reporter and have a final say over the stories that now get printed. The reportorial peers of the Newsweek reporter will bring him into line as well.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:09 amAnother bullying Republican? Oh, my!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:11 amI can’t wait for McTemper to lash out at some reporter on the campaign trail and says a big f_ck you.
Will the Corporate Controlled Networks and other bought and sold press cover this?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:11 amThis just shows what a bunch of wimps republicans really are. they can dish it out but man, do they snivel and cry when anyone says anything bad about them. Kind of makes you wonder what mcbush will do if some terrist says something bad about him…
May 15th, 2008 at 11:13 amHey, back off, Newsweek, back off for good. You’re either with McBush or your with the terrorists.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:13 amWhat a maverick this McCain is!
ye gods
May 15th, 2008 at 11:13 amThat’s one sure sign of our country ever titlting toward full-blown Fascism :
restrict the press.
Heckuva job McBomb!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:14 amMaverick, my ass!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:15 amMcLame is a Bush ass kisser with a bad temper.
Newsweek has a golden opportunity here to increase sales dramatically - tell McInsane to f*** off then, print the truth without any comment/input from him or his staff - and they’ll come crawling back, guaranteed. People interested in the truth and facts will start buying Newsweek out of respect for their principled stand.
Which is why it will never happen - requires a MSM publication to take a principled stand.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:20 amFour more years of Bush, on top of McCain appointments of all blondes to major posts, only to seduce them with his craziness during closed briefings?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:21 amHell yeah, thats what i like to see . some leadership!! Bush never had the balls to kick out an idealistic journalist. I’m starting to like this McCain guy!!!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:21 amThe right nuts are getting real nasty now. Bring ‘em on, we don’t want your “respectful campaign,” crazy man.
Brace yourself for the slurs, Obama.
Game on — Election 2008.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:23 amYup, gg. All that BS about “the first and best defense of a democracy is an informed electorate” be damned. Right?
These politicians who are running to be “employed” and paid by us really don’t have any obligation to talk to the press. Right? Who needs anything so trivial as accountability, competence, transparency or honesty in government. Right?
You are one neuron short of a synapse, sweetpea.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:24 amIf McJowls can’t handle an inconvenient question from the press, how could he handle a phone call at 3 a.m.?
snort/snicker
May 15th, 2008 at 11:24 amDid he call Newsweek a trollopyCu*t?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:24 amCan you envision a McIIIrd press conference, with no reporters, cause they’ve all been kicked out for disagreeing with the old coot?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:25 amAnd when McCain’s campaign is floundering sometime this autumn, they’ll be begging Newsweek and the media for more coverage. Transparent whores.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:26 amdownwamorica Says:
Hell yeah, thats what i like to see . some leadership!! Bush never had the balls to kick out an idealistic journalist. I’m starting to like this McCain guy!!!
Yeah!! Get to McCain’s office and exceed the ball-licking abilities of the blondest McCain staffer!!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:26 amBush never had the balls to kick out an idealistic journalist.
But he did have the “balls” to plant a ball loving faux journalist/shill in the White House press corp.
Sleezership, I guess one would call it.
Or gutless and afraid.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:28 amIs Newsweek quaking in their boots? Oh…my…GOD! No access to anymore barbeque! And for McDumbo’s long serving aide…yes, keep threatening to bar journalists from your press gaggle…maybe, Mark, you’ll get a clue that you need them more than they need you.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:28 amMcCain’s got a hold of that temper.
Shows.
McCain 2008: Straight-jacket Express
Too damaged to be president
May 15th, 2008 at 11:28 amToo damaged to be president, too stupid to care…
May 15th, 2008 at 11:29 amThe old man is not even President and he is already trying to suppress free speech, I can`t wait till he try`s to skirt around the Constituton and what it stands for, The McWarmonger
May 15th, 2008 at 11:32 amis on the road to losing in November.
Silly voters. He knows you won’t be deciding who the next president is.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:35 amGeeDubs, I want to see the reich regime swim in their own tears after nothing less than their resounding defeat come November. McCain represents the neonut blood drinking neanderthals that refuse to retire with grace.
The GOP wants to die and we want to kill them.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:37 amno more free press folks, it’s over. Protect yourselves, clearly another war is planned for our amusement before the election
May 15th, 2008 at 11:38 amG00D_G0LLY Says:
The First Amendment is a two way street. They are free to report what they wish, and we are free to chose not to talk to them.
“We”? Is that you, Dick Cheney?
Further evidence, if any was needed, of your complete lack of comprehension about the Constitution.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:48 amDamn Kids, Get off my lawn, er..
May 15th, 2008 at 11:53 amYou should have this made into a bumpersticker with McUgly’s face on it.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:58 amIf they steal this election that may be their last dirty deed. Think Custer with Obama voters as the Indians.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pmGrampy McSame says - My friends, back in the day we had reporters that wrote their stories on stone tablets, and they would only write what we wanted them to write, none of this fact stuff, oh no, only what we told them to report, we would take those tablets then and throw them in lakes and try and hit ducks, we would yell, DUCK, and they would fly off to the North for Fourth of July, those were the days…I hope that’s mashed potatoes I just sat in.
Good going grampy, don’t want none of those darn Facts coming out, now do you.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pmI really hope that McCain follows through on his threat against Newsweek. I can imagine the headlines “Cheap Talk Express”, “One-sided Talk Express”, “Media Thrown Off and Under the Bus”, “Censored Express”, and the like. Of course, this is “flip-week” and we start “flop-week” on Monday, so who knows what McCain’s decision will be then.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmMr. Salter is the “McCain-access nazi”
No McCain for you!!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjCn_2H6kE
Our Newsweek subscription is currently up for renewal and I have been inclined to let it lapse because of the deterioration in reporting and columnists the publication has been offering the last three years. Newsweek’s principled position that it will not kowtow to McCrazy’s demands just might prompt me to reconsider my first inclination. Otherwise, if Newsweek folds in fear, why should I continue to subsidize right-wing propaganda outlets? Everything they might report from inside McCrazy’s campaign would be suspect afterward anyway.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pmBuckie Boy Says:
we would take those tablets then and throw them in lakes and try and hit ducks, we would yell, DUCK, and they would fly off to the North for Fourth of July
Yet, another classic :)~
May 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pmJudging by the current administration and McCain’s past and present,
Could we predict that a McCain Whitehouse may try to color the news ?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm“Can’t have any reporters that tell the truth now, can we?”
Just curious,
Where on the web would you suggest I look for truthful reporters?
Are you using the term “truthful” to mean consistent with your political views?
Were you able to verify their accuracy or truthfulness in some independent objective manner?
How frequently do these truthful reporters say or report things which contradict or bring in to doubt your own political views?
How often do these reporters surprise you, contradict or rebut some news item put forward by sources who share your political? perspective.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmlet ‘em!
watch some old movies, wear fedoras and yell questions across the room. raise your eyebrows when you get a bowshit answer. I know you can handle this.
things were better when you guys acted like reporters. I’m not sure just when it started looking seminars with keynote speakers but it does. knock that sh*t off, okay?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm