Cameron called McCain VP stories "erroneous reports" and said Fox News didn't report them -- but it did
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During the August 28 edition of Fox News' The Strategy Room, chief political correspondent Carl Cameron said that the Associated Press "is reporting that [Sen.] John McCain has not made up his mind" as to who will be his vice-presidential running mate. Cameron went on to say: "That's the Associated Press dealing with what was a series of erroneous reports last night on a half a dozen different blogs and media outlets -- not Fox News -- that suggested that McCain had made up his mind and had intended to tell his potential pick today" [emphasis added]. However, during the 12 a.m. ET hour of Fox News' August 28 coverage of the Democratic National Convention, host Greta Van Susteren reported: "And speaking of Senator McCain, there's big news in his campaign tonight. Senator McCain has reportedly chosen his vice presidential running mate, and that person will be notified tomorrow. Senator McCain is expected to announce his running mate Friday morning in Dayton, Ohio."
As Van Susteren spoke, Fox News displayed the following on-screen text under a "BREAKING NEWS" header: "Sen McCain Has Chosen His Vice-Presidential Running Mate" and "McCain Will Inform His Running Mate of His Decision Tomorrow."
From the August 28 edition of Fox News' The Strategy Room:
CAMERON: Hi, Chris. Well, as you look at that set there at Invesco Field, there's not going to be anything like that for the announcement of John McCain's running mate here in Dayton, Ohio. But that is expected tomorrow to take place here in this key battleground swing state, one that's been so important in so many presidential campaigns in years past. Just before we opened up this segment, we heard from both Bill and Megyn that the Associated Press is reporting that John McCain has not made up his mind. That's the Associated Press dealing with what was a series of erroneous reports last night on a half a dozen different blogs and media outlets -- not Fox News -- that suggested that McCain had made up his mind and had intended to tell his potential pick today. What we can tell you is that McCain is in fact in the last, very final stages of making his selection, and for many days, he has had a sense of what direction he would go -- perhaps even a sense of who he'd ultimately pick.
From the 12 a.m. ET hour of Fox News' August 28 coverage of the Democratic National Convention:
VAN SUSTEREN: And speaking of Senator McCain, there's big news in his campaign tonight. Senator McCain has reportedly chosen his vice presidential running mate, and that person will be notified tomorrow. Senator McCain is expected to announce his running mate Friday morning in Dayton, Ohio.
The conservative agenda in this case, Tommy Boy, is the usual conservative meme: The MSM is biased toward liberals and thus gets it wrong all the time about conservatives. The point here is that Fox (i.e. the RNC Network) gets it wrong too.
Actually, the McCain campaign has confirmed he's made his choice. There's some evidence (cancelling interview in Denver, flying home to OH) that it's Pawlenty. Should be announced tomorrow at McCain's version of Nuremberg.
It's not finger-pointing at all. Personal attacks are your schtick.
FoxNews saying that they didn't do something wrong, when they did, makes them look better than they deserve to look. That furthers the conservative agenda, to make a news source that conservatives love not look like they made a mistake they actually made.
It's hard to believe that you can possibly not understand the reason every posting by Media Matters is here. You have had it explained to you countless times just by me in the past 6 months! How is it that you haven't let that knowledge seep into your brain yet?
You swing and miss, again, at refuting my point....back to your drawing board.
Have a nice evening.
Talk about a swing and a miss.........
I'm not Sue.
Even if I was, it wouldn't excuse your personal attacks. And I haven't made vile and nasty verbal assaults. That's what Jlyon falsely accused me of. Birds of a feather flock together. It's you who makes the personal attacks on posters that get your goat and document your bad behaviors.
Top that off with you avoiding every point I made, and you have 3 strikes, and you're out.
It's not believable that you can't figure out why this is here or why almost anything that Media Matters posts is posted here. It's that you don't want to admit it. It's that you want to distract and derail. Everyone knows it, and when you won't admit it, and instead make a personal attack like calling me a banned poster, all you do is hurt your own reputation.
But you can't resist the urge to make a personal attack.
"Not really sure how this little tidbit fits into the mission statement here"
Other than the fact that it was conservative misinformation, I tend to agree with you.
Well, I am sure now, thanks Gov. When it's you and Sue who disagree with me, then all my doubts are removed. BIG WITH! here. Done.
"BIG WITH! here. Done."
You don't know why it's here. You're perplexed. Done indeed. Ongoing, but done.
Gee, how little I care who McCain picks.
C-SPAN was running a segment showing the Republican platform committee arguing about whether their platform should call for abolishing the Dept. of Education which their hero, Ronald Reagan wanted. More states' rights, like those in Mississippi when they resisted segregation of schools...what a retrogade group of theocrats.
Mary, it's a choice between:
Reagan’s Corpse
Anti-union, anti-gay, pro-apartheid, pro-America. The ultimate conservative, dead or alive. Prop up his shriveled corpse Weekend at Bernie’s style. Half of the Republicans probably don’t even know that he’s dead.
AND
Random Fetus
If McCain wants to show how serious he is about the notion that humans have human rights from the moment of conception, what better way than to make a fetus his VP?.
Pearlene, what a beaut, thanks for the laugh.
This is all gamesmanship...McCain's camp will leak his VP pick tonight to steal some of Obama's thunder.
Irony,
McCain would need to make an incredibly idiotic pick [Lieberman] or a woman [like Kay Bailey Hutchinson] to steal even a tad of Obama's thunder.
I figure he'll tap Romney. But don't bet your house on it, I'm not a real great predictor on this stuff. [ I was convinced Obama would surprise us all & pick Hillary]
I'm glad Cameron's on the job in Ohio. I just hope nothing important happens right in front of him where it'll be easy to miss...
All the reporting on McCain's VP pick has been laughable. It's amazing to me that no one seems capable of plainly pointing out that the GOP is a total mess and that the guy they got running for president this year is really really reallly really really (really really) bad and his VP choice will be worse that he is. Move on up, Dole/Kemp, your replacements are here.
He made possibly the most laughable choice - Sarah Palin.
So Grampy raps Obama for 'lack of experience' and his answer is to go with this ditz... a former Miss Alaska runnerup... who doesn't seem to know what the VP's function is according to this from MSNBC:
As for the prospect of her being vice president, Palin told Kudlow that she could not answer the question of whether she wanted the job “until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day. I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here….”
McCain is an idiot. This campaign should be over by any stretch. but leave it up to the average low-information voters out there to put these two morons into the White House and the VP residence.
Rabbit,
Your argument against Palin is equally valid against Obama.
Neither have experience.
And don't you love those that come on this website and rail against rightwingers who launch personal verbal attacks against their candidate, but then turn around and call the other candidate a "ditz" and a "moron".
I guess the double standard is above their pay grade. :)
Oh, and your selective outrage is laughable, Tommy. The right does it all the time.
Yeah, I name-call and I smear. I play by the same rules the right plays by. I'm just not on their team.
Well, Tommy, make the case for Palin then.
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