Want to know why Sarah Palin (who we're still talking about, goddammit that woman just will not fade away) was handed over to big bad wolf Katie Couric for that embarrassing campaign interview? Because wow, couldn't McCain's people see that Couric's ratings were slipping and she needed a big push to not get the axe from CBS, and it turns out humiliating Sarah Palin by asking reasonably appropriate questions was just the way to do that?
Well, says McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, to be fair, we thought it would go well because they are both chicks:
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Ack, no! Barack Obama, after all that ScoJo nonsense, one would hope that you would have learned not to allow B+ celebrities to market themselves via your campaign.
So why is professional chucklehead Ashton Kutcher and his cougar wife Demi Moore in a viral video (ugh) for Vote for Change, the registration initiative that you started?
It was really hard to watch Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric last night. Not just because the governor came off as fear-mongering (like when she cried "Depression!" in a crowded theater), or ill-prepared (like when she was unable to give Couric one example in McCain's 26 years in the senate where he voted for more regulations on Wall Street).
No, the real icy-bowels moment occurs when Palin began to bumble through an insanely long answer with about twenty prepositional clauses to explain Rick Davis' relation to Freddie Mac:
The New York Times wasted no time alerting the general public what candidate it was throwing its weight behind this upcoming election. So when the NYT did a bit of investigative journalism into the role of McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, and his previous firm's work with now defunct loan giant Freddie Mac, the right hit back with an attack of "extreme bias".
Steve Schmidt, senior strategist for McCain, called the Times Obama cheerleaders and said the publication was "150 percent in the tank" for Democratic candidate, which the Times duly noted.
So how did the paper respond to the allegations?
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McCain's camp was all whine-whine-whine to NBC News president Steve Capus over some comments Andrea Mitchell made on Meet the Press. On the subject of Saturday night's faith forum, Mitchell relayed Team Obama sentiments that there was foul play involved in the event — "that McCain may not have been in the Cone of Silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well prepared." Someone call someone a cheater?
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sent a very strongly worded letter to NBC, which so often receives this sort of thing, chiding them for "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the presidential race."
This, even though Mitchell was doing that thing that journalists do — reporting — on what had already been stated by the Democrats, and gave full context to the quote. Except, whoops, now it looks like McCain wasn't in that Cone of Silence after all. Their bad, yo. So what is this magical cone that McCain was not in? CONTINUED »
