Comments on: McCain campaign threatened to cut off Newsweek’s access. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: cage free brown http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962980 cage free brown Thu, 15 May 2008 19:00:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962980 let '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? let ‘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?

]]> By: Udontsay http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962944 Udontsay Thu, 15 May 2008 18:56:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962944 "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. “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.

]]> By: MapleStreet http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962508 MapleStreet Thu, 15 May 2008 17:08:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962508 Judging by the current administration and McCain's past and present, Could we predict that a McCain Whitehouse may try to color the news ? Judging by the current administration and McCain’s past and present,

Could we predict that a McCain Whitehouse may try to color the news ?

]]> By: Exit Stage Left http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962398 Exit Stage Left Thu, 15 May 2008 16:46:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962398 <em>Buckie 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</em> Yet, another classic :)~ Buckie 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 :)~

]]> By: PrahaPartizan http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962384 PrahaPartizan Thu, 15 May 2008 16:44:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962384 Our <em>Newsweek</em> 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. <em>Newsweek's</em> principled position that it will not kowtow to McCrazy's demands just might prompt me to reconsider my first inclination. Otherwise, if <em>Newsweek</em> 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. 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.

]]> By: galmud http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962302 galmud Thu, 15 May 2008 16:32:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962302 Mr. Salter is the "McCain-access nazi" No McCain for you!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjCn_2H6kE Mr. Salter is the “McCain-access nazi”

No McCain for you!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjCn_2H6kE

]]> By: PatrioticLiberalChristian http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962248 PatrioticLiberalChristian Thu, 15 May 2008 16:16:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962248 I 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. I 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.

]]> By: Buckie Boy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962204 Buckie Boy Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962204 Grampy 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. Grampy 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.

]]> By: Shayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962198 Shayne Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962198 <blockquote>ThomasMc Says: Silly voters. He knows you won’t be deciding who the next president is.</blockquote> If they steal this election that may be their last dirty deed. Think Custer with Obama voters as the Indians.

ThomasMc Says:

Silly voters. He knows you won’t be deciding who the next president is.

If they steal this election that may be their last dirty deed. Think Custer with Obama voters as the Indians.

]]> By: Shayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962186 Shayne Thu, 15 May 2008 15:58:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962186 <blockquote>GeeDubs Says: Too damaged to be president, too stupid to care…</blockquote> You should have this made into a bumpersticker with McUgly's face on it.

GeeDubs Says:

Too damaged to be president, too stupid to care…

You should have this made into a bumpersticker with McUgly’s face on it.

]]> By: leftzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962156 leftzone Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962156 Damn Kids, Get off my lawn, er.. Damn Kids, Get off my lawn, er..

]]> By: gummitch http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962136 gummitch Thu, 15 May 2008 15:48:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962136 <em>G00D_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.</em> "We"? Is that you, Dick Cheney? Further evidence, if any was needed, of your complete lack of comprehension about the Constitution. <blockquote> "The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632 "The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384</blockquote> G00D_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.

“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.” –Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632

“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384

]]> By: oldtree http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962088 oldtree Thu, 15 May 2008 15:38:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962088 no more free press folks, it's over. Protect yourselves, clearly another war is planned for our amusement before the election no more free press folks, it’s over. Protect yourselves, clearly another war is planned for our amusement before the election

]]> By: McWars http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962084 McWars Thu, 15 May 2008 15:37:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962084 GeeDubs, 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. GeeDubs, 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.

]]> By: ThomasMc http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962076 ThomasMc Thu, 15 May 2008 15:35:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962076 Silly voters. He knows you won't be deciding who the next president is. Silly voters. He knows you won’t be deciding who the next president is.

]]> By: christopher wiwi http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962054 christopher wiwi Thu, 15 May 2008 15:32:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962054 The 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 is on the road to losing in November. The 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
is on the road to losing in November.

]]> By: GeeDubs http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962028 GeeDubs Thu, 15 May 2008 15:29:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962028 Too damaged to be president, too stupid to care... Too damaged to be president, too stupid to care…

]]> By: McWars http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962016 McWars Thu, 15 May 2008 15:28:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962016 McCain's got a hold of that temper. Shows. McCain 2008: Straight-jacket Express <em>Too damaged to be president</em> McCain’s got a hold of that temper.

Shows.

McCain 2008: Straight-jacket Express

Too damaged to be president

]]> By: GeeDubs http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962014 GeeDubs Thu, 15 May 2008 15:28:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962014 Is 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. Is 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.

]]> By: lokidog http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4962012 lokidog Thu, 15 May 2008 15:28:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/15/mccain-campaign-threatened-to-cut-off-newsweeks-access/#comment-4962012 <em>Bush never had the balls to kick out an idealistic journalist.</em> But he <strong>did</strong> 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. Bush 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.

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