McCain: ‘I Do Not Complain About The Media’»....Liar Liar Pants on Fire!

[maddezmom]

McCain: ‘I Do Not Complain About The Media’»
Yesterday during an interview with Fox News’s Carl Cameron, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) astonishingly claimed that he has not had any complaints with the way the media is treating him or his campaign:

MCCAIN: I do not comment on the media treatment of me or Sarah. Complaining about something we are doing voluntarily that we want to do and get done I think would just not be productive. <…> But I do not complain about the media and I will not complain because thats not appropriate for me to do so and frankly it doesn’t do me any good if I did.

Watch it (beginning at 1:15):

Anyone paying any attention to anything in recent weeks knows that this claim is beyond absurd. In fact, McCain himself just recently railed against “gotcha journalism” when CBS News’s Katie Couric asked about Sarah Palin’s recent claim that the U.S. should “launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan to, quote, ‘stop the terrorists from coming any further in‘” — a position that McCain opposes and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) supports.

The McCain campaign has been waging a well-known and well-documented war against the media for what they consider to be biased coverage. Some of the battles


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-complain-media/

[stillcool]

1. and he doesn't lie either..

[NC_Nurse]

2. Is he completely effin' SENILE? Or does he think we are?

Jeebus!

[jimshoes]

8. I'm not sure if he's all that up to speed on the

Video tape thingy. Used to be you had to go digging through newspapers for old quote's and then you could blame the editor for any misstatements.

[bamacrat]

3. Fucking unreal.

Hes spent half his time whining about how the media is using "gotcha" tactics, or is that a strategy, and how the media needs to treat Palin fairly, afterall she is only a woman who obviously cannot take the scrutiny and questioning a male can. What a lying sack of shit.

[TexasObserver]

4. He also claims he's honest, has integrity, and isn't lying out his ass.

[Solly Mack]

5. It's called groveling (and lying) lololol

After Palin's speech at the Republican convention, where she took swipes at the media, both she and McCain continued along that same path of attacking and blaming the media. A long time tradition with the GOP. ("liberal media bias")

One day ago Palin said she didn't feel as if the media was treating her unfairly or in a sexist manner. Today McCain claims he's never complained about the media.

[seemslikeadream]

6. McGrumpy just kicks them off his plane

[Rage for Order]

7. That is an honest statement

McCain doesn't complain about the media; he has his surrogates do it for him