FOX News reacted quite differently to McCain’s speech last night in stark contrast to what Harold Ford thought. While he said it was McCain’s most powerful speech, Carl Cameron, Hume, Rove, Wallace and William the bloody Kristol thought it was awful. Will right wingers and the Bush administration attack Carl for sounding just like a left wing blog for pointing out McCain’s deficiencies as a public speaker? Remember what Rove and Co. said about McClellan? He reads off the teleprompter, uses a weird smile when he looks at the audience and stumbles mightily.
Download | Play 
Download | Play
Cameron: …he’s just not as glitzy. Sen. McCain is working off a teleprompter, he’s stumbles with it. Occasionally you’ll see what looks to be an awkward smile as he tries to sort of connect to the audience, but it sometimes feels a little bit off. He recognizes it, the campaign recognizes it, the audience recognizes it.
Wallace: …and I have to say sometimes when you’re reading the speech along, the speech reads better than it sounds, sometimes it sounds better than it reads. I think we would agree this is a speech that was better on the printed page than it was coming from John McCain’s mouth.
Rove: Yea, content better than delivery tonight.
Kristol: I’ve got to say however watching that speech, I don’t think it was a successful speech by Sen. McCain and I think he came off as just snipping at Obama…
Filed Under: Fox News, John McCain, Media Criticism
Tags: Carl Cameron, Fox News, John McCain, Media Criticism
No Trackbacks To “FOX News rips McCain’s Kenner Speech: Is Carl Cameron a Lefty Blogger now?“
The GOP excuse parade is warming up.
Calling McCain’s speech “awful” is very polite.
These asshats don’t want to face reality.
It’s not the messenger. It is the message.
The Republican brand is DEAD. Fin. Fini. Hasta La Vista. Arriverderci. Sayonara. Dead. Morte’.
Well, this is a strategy they will employ — they will say Obama is the speech giver, but if you look deeper, McCain has the goods. I don’t believe that, but that will be a constant refrain. The Rove playbook is to turn a candidate’s strengths against them. Ask John Kerry.
even they can’t put lip stick on that pig
Biggus Diggus @ 4:
Totally agree….
TPM did a mashup on this that’s hilarious.
TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/198681.php
My favorite part of this video is what they do with Harold Ford right at the end. … hahahahaha
Remember how fast Carl Camerons four part series on who knew 9/11 was going to happen was pulled off the Fox website.
That four part report by Carl was important
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWpWc_suPWo
Part 2
http://www.informationclearing.....le7544.htm
this is a 4 part report. The name that it is listed under changes and is inflammatory. It was not listed like this originally.
McCain Engages in Appeasement … of Hillary and Her Base!
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1896
I can agree that Rove and company will say that Obama is a great speaker but McCain packs the goods and that is all that matters. The problem though, is that McCain’s policies are very similar to Bush’s failed policies of the past seven and half years. Its very difficult to sell already unpopular policies and even more so when the candidate can not even re-deliver them in an inspirational way.
Yup, laying the groundwork for crappy debate performances.
neocons want brawn……..not brains….they got it.
Thank you Faux News for stating the obvious.
McSame is old…bitter…scarred….senile….and clearly past his sell-by date. How anyone can look at that relic and think “future” is beyond me. There is nothing new or exciting about this guy. Just Chimpy wrapped up in a wrinkled, lumpy, pasty package. This country needs to turn the page after eight miserable years….and McSame is not the answer.
I’m not saying that Obama will be perfect, but I’m certainly willing to give him a chance and restore this country to what it used to be.
neocon brawn
sounds like an SS commander to me
Ot
US elections: Jimmy Carter tells Barack Obama not to pick Hillary Clinton as running mate
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ctions2008
eag @ 14:
that’s frickin funny(eva braun) maybe ss girlfriend….good one
Faux Noise also agrees that McBush’s serial killer smile and poorly written speech bombed.
America deserves an intelligent, articulate and attractive leader: Obama.
Grandpa, go home.
Just remember you heard it here first. Bob Barr gets more votes McFlipflop
Kathleen @ 15:
thanks for sharing that article…….i thought hillary may be a good choice maybe i’m wrong..recognition and credentials
SPUMP!!!!
John McCain is a Bob Dole walking.
‘Ol Maverick kind of looks like he’s had the meeting with the people that run this place and been told he’s going to pick Jeb as VP. . .and then win!
Wow… when FOX turns on you and you’re a Republican… that’s pretty bad.
GoldwaterX @ 19:
I was just thinking….Obama
GoldwaterX @ 19:
I was just thinking….Obama should invite Barr to go on a ten week town hall meeting spree.
This is the beginning of the dumbing down of McBush. Make him more of a man of the people. Hemming and Hawing and looking like a dolt. Sound famiiar? Makes sense in connection with all the Elitist Talk from the righties the past few days.
“While he (Harold Ford) said it was McCain’s most powerful speech, Carl Cameron, Hume, Rove, Wallace and William the bloody Kristol thought it was awful.”
They were both correct. It was awful, of course, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t his most powerful. Have you seen McCain’s other speeches?
May the GOP crash and burn, and take these simpering shitfucks with them.
Why all this tripe about McCain & FOX losers all over today’s C&L.
The biggest breaking news in the last 4 years of the democratic party and Obama’s plan for cabinet members & approach for choosing a VP and HARDLY A WORD about moving FORWARD.
This isn’t even negative or positive it’s about a surprising stuck mindset.
28 Loonie Says:
“May the GOP crash and burn, and take these simpering shitfucks with them.”
It is happening already. Don’t miss the show!
eastriver @ 26:
You think it’s a good idea for McCain to look like a horrible speaker at best, a fool at worst? It would be pretty funny if the Republicans wanted to add “communicates poorly” to their man’s resume.
There are worse jobs in the world than being McBushs media guy, I’m trying to think of what they are. This guy is going to get creamed in any same screen situation with Obama.
Take a breath and let people adjust then we can move forward. Obama and Clinton need to work things out.
McCain is dead in the water. The only way he can win the election is if all the American people not in that green screen room last night are killed off between now and November. If he wins under those circumstances it will be a close one.
AlexB @ 31:
Why not? It’s worked for the GOP for the past eight years.
AlexB @ 31:
The resume would read “The Great Communicator”, in keeping with the Republicans saying the opposite of what it true in every instance.
Hume: Now parading down the FUX News catwalk, Carl Cameron, dressed in a sequin gown that hangs almost as nicely on him as it does on me. Carl, we could talk about the substantive issues of in Gone InSane’s speech, but let’s be serious — we’re on FUX. So, instead, let’s talk about the piss-poor oration our dipshit candidate gave. How hard is he going to make our jobs of making him look good in the coming months?
Cameron: Uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh, err, golly, Brit, I was gonna note that even if you didn’t ask me, cuz, you know, the delivery really did suck ass. And, you’re right, it’s going to be a challenge to come up with excuses for it. But lemme give it my best shot: First, McCain hasn’t been doing this kind of speech for a long, long time. He has forgotten how. Second, Gone InSane has never been able to work with a teleprompter without stumbling, and who can blame him? When he was born, his parents were struggling to afford the latest technology called light bulbs. And finally, when InSane was tortured in Vietnam, they used electroshocks on him, and that’s really the only way his campaign handlers can get his face to contort into a kind of smile now — they jolt him a bit with electricity, which accounts for his smile appearing a little off, and not as glitzy as that gorgeous hunk Barack Obama. But let’s face it. InSane has always been this way. I know it, you know it, and the American people know it, so we have two options: Focus on the issues, which clearly won’t work, or lie and help him steal the election, which tends to go in our favor.
Wallace: Yikes. This wasn’t very good, was it?
Rove: I guess not. But we can give him an A for effort, right? Right?
Wallace: Heh, is that what we’re going on? Is that all we have? Can’t we make him any better?
Rove: Sure. Don’t let him make any more speeches. Put him on his porch, in his rocking chair, snuggling his favorite blankie, and just let him talk to people. He’s ok with that. And he should do ok in debates too. Just no more public speeches. That’s Obama’s strong suit.
Kristol: Oh, jesus christ guys, let’s face it! The speech sucked balls! We’re stuck between Barack and a hard place! Ok?!?! Let’s just fucking face it! I’m tired of being wrong all the time! I wanna get something right! Gone InSane sucks! His campaign sucks! He looks like a doddering fool, and he even stole Obama’s god damned slogan! WHAAAAA!!!!! The horror! The horror!
You mean this John McCain?
You are, of course, correct.
“John McCain: Great communicator, a man of the people, understands the working man, not afraid to negotiate…”
Much like Bush is a President fighting for Democracy.
Kathleen@15US elections: “Jimmy Carter tells Barack Obama not to pick Hillary Clinton as running mate”
The thought of HillBill on the ticket is abhorrent. Jimmy Carter’s instinct is spot-on correct.
…Imagine. Gawfuhbid anything happens to Obama, Hillary would obtain her ambition in a roundabout way as we’ve heard her muse about just in the last 10 days.
What a macabre grotesque thought. I hope Obama doesn’t let it enter his head to bring her on as VP. This is all the media’s doing.
Besides…since she’s been pushing healthcare for two decades now, it would be fitting for her to achieve her vision as Health administrator. Her plan is BETTER than Obama’s anyway, and to give her power toward that end makes sense as fitting and natural a position for her.
Don’t fall for it. the MEDIA wants Hillary as VP (puke long and hard but do it behind the barn).
Yea, and the content was nothing to write home about either.
i have enormous respect for this site but i wonder why you care why fox thinks? they are, and i know you know this, a propaganda machine. to care what they say is to give them legitimacy that they don’t deserve.
36 Karen,
If the law business goes south you obviously have a back up career. :)
This is starting to be reminiscent of the “Simpsons” episode where Homer sabotages Lisa’s American Idol contest competitor (which gave us the immortal:
I’m a privileged boy, It’s great I gotta tell ya,
Privileged boy, my Dad can buy and sell ya,
It really doesn’t matter that you’re on the list in front of me,
I’m gonna get your table ’cause I always tip the maitre d’,
And then I’ll go to Yale, because I am a legacy,
I’m better than you.)
I’d think he was DOA if he hadn’t already been here once before in the Republican primaries before being rescued by Rove & Associates. If anybody can breathe life into the animated cadaver it’ll be those evil bastids.
McCain’s biggest point in the speech was obviously in code when he said Obama wants Government to make all our decisions for us. What he really meant and does not have the guts to say is that he wants more tax cuts for the rich and he wants to eliminate anything government does to help it’s citizens, restrain it’s corporations or hinder greed.
The Truth Hurts @ 34:
Wouldn’t surprise me if they tried to spin it to their advantage:
Obama is an elitist! Just watch how eloquently he gives a speech. His every word and mannerism screams educated, thoughtful and wise. Who needs that?
In John McCain, we have an average, down-home Amurikin, one who isn’t just in touch with the people, he is one of the people. He mangles words. He don’t need no education. He understands that the first rule of war is not “Know your enemy,” but “Thump your chest.” And his vision suffers from the kind of myopia common not just to people his age, but to all Amurikins.
John McCain: Stumbler. Bumbler. Amurikin. (And by the way, nothing like George W. Bush.)
You’ve heard of “dead man walking”, well I’m here to tell ya’ McCain is Bob Dole walking. Doesn’t stand a chance. He was robbed in 2000 by Bush Boy, just as Bob Dole was robbed in 1992 by Bush Dad. Both McCain and Dole ended up running because it was their “turn”. The Republicans knew they were gonna lose, so they just put out doomed candidates who could take the fall.
poor fox snooze, there’s just so much you can do to dress up a steaming pile of crap such as that speech.
i’m reminded of an old firesign theatre sketch in which a contestant in a game show passes up what prizes are hidden behind several doors for what’s in a plain brown papar bag only to find:
Mrs. Presky: “But… but…this is a bag of SHIT!”
Game Show Host: “Yes, But it’s really GREAT shit, Mrs. Presky!”
47 sassafra
You have to admit that was better than the “Name That Desease” where the winner winner was told, “You’ve got the PLAGUE!”
:)
Gramps has an irritating nasal thing going on when he speaks as well as