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The word out of McCain's campaign tomorrow, today!
John McCain's informed Marc Ambinder and Byron York that he's got an ad in the works and off to the network news outlets tonight about Obama's shady deal with Tony Rezko for his south side home. What in the world is your problem, John? The golden rule of crisis management in the case of misspeaking is to craft a convoluted explanation and move on - the end - you won't win this fight on fair terms.
However, McCain knows that his Rezko retort is such a rehashed milquetoast attack that no network will air it in the same breath as the audio of McCain's remark, Obama's response ad, Obama's comments on the stump, and the McCain's initial response to the blow-up (hey that's 3 minutes right there -- no time for an irrelevant attack by McCain even if they wanted to air it). But, by throwing this out there, McCain sets the stage to blame the media for amplifying his comment. Hell, maybe he'll even say they misinterpreted it. Yural Levin's already laid the groundwork for this response:
This frankly sounds less like a guy who has too many houses to countUnfortunately for McCain, his loose-lipped campaign's let the cat out of the bag too early. Marc Ambinder's twittering away this evening: "The media is abetting the firestorm about McCain's home-style gaffarooni."
than a guy with money invested in various places who doesn’t do his own
accounting for it and who’s afraid to give the wrong answer and get
called on it.
Comments (1)
No, this gaffe has great legs because it's FUNNY!!
Nothing like good old fashioned RIDICULE if you want your political career to end in a heart beat.
McBush is about to be laughed all the way back to his home in AZ, or maybe CA, or maybe the other one in CA, or maybe in VA, or hell, maybe he just stays up in the air on that fancy Jet his wife gave him!
See what I mean?
Jay Leno & Dave Letterman, etc. will do a much better job than me, starting TONIGHT!!
I can't wait for Colbert's and that MSNBC dude's reactions. LOL
August 21, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
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