Posted on 11/14/2007 8:04:40 AM PST by RatherBiased.com
Trying to create a scandal over Republican presidential candidate John McCain's failure to rebuke a woman supporter who called Hillary Clinton a “bitch,” CNN's Rick Sanchez led Tuesday night's Out in the Open with what he insisted was the “relevant and newsworthy” topic as he seriously asked: “Is John McCain done as a result of this?” He later speculated: “Is his campaign dead in the water?”
Betraying the skew of those at CNN, Sanchez told guest Amy Holmes: “He could be in trouble for this from women, especially the ones that've been talking to me today in our newsroom who heard this and were offended.” Sanchez's spin matched that of left-wing bloggers, a story in Wednesday's New York Times revealed: “The clip began showing on Web sites like Salon.com, the liberal site TPM.com and others, with bloggers asking why Mr. McCain had not taken the questioner to task.”
Setting up the video, Sanchez haughtily intoned: “You're going to hear a McCain supporter. She refers to Hillary Clinton using really what is a horrible word that is used to do nothing but demean women. Well, at the time, it was a supporter who said that. It wasn't until later on, when we watched the whole tape, which is what you're about to see, that you see McCain's reaction, or lack thereof, that we decided that this is both relevant and newsworthy, and important information to this campaign.”
An older woman at an event in South Carolina had asked: “How do we beat the bitch?” An appalled Sanchez complained: “He says 'that's an excellent question,' after somebody refers to Hillary Clinton as a B-word which rhymes with witch.”
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This is not the time or the place .... BUT
I was trout fishing up state NY in September, and a guy had a sticker on his pick up DAMM
(Drunks Against Mad Mothers)
“He could be in trouble for this from women, especially the ones that’ve been talking to me today in our newsroom who heard this and were offended.”
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That’s almost funny.
I’d be more apt to vote for McCain for ignoring it all (smile). (Don’t worry, I won’t, but he went up in my estimation. Now if HE had called Hill a beech...(LOL)).
FOX does the same thing. They grab onto a story and run it 24/7. Ho hum most of the time. I watch Law and Order reruns instead...
Wasn’t it a woman who asked him the question?
Oh - that’s right Southern women are mostly conservative, and thus “inauthentic”...
Yeah, and?
ML/NJ
I agree with you there, McCain’s handling of the question was smooth.
Someone should show Sanchez all the quotes using the ‘f’ word from Hillary and ask him if it changes his mind.
Hillary a Beeotch?!
lol
If the shoe fits.
LMAO !! .....Agree !
Hmmm. If Sanchez thinks John McCain should resign because of something one of his supporters said about Her Heinous, then Her Heinous has no business running for President, because she once called someone an Effing Jew B*stard!
I c*n't figure this out.
Did you mean coat?
Chit?
Chat?
Come on, splain it to me.
Oh, wait, I think I might have it :)
He should have called her the communist she is.
“Rick Sanchez.....drunk manslaughterer.”
- Sanchez pleaded no contest to DUI after he ran over a pedestrian following a football game. The pedestrian lingered on in pain for a couple more years before finally dying from the injuries he sustained.
Rick, if he ever thinks of the matter at all, probably looks upon it as just a little “speed bump” on his road to journalistic stardom.
“FOX does the same thing. They grab onto a story and run it 24/7. Ho hum most of the time. I watch Law and Order reruns instead...” - Marysecretary
Amen to that. Now it’s going to be the 24 hour “Stacy Peterson” network. I’m VERY sorry about what happened (if anything) but I fail to see how this is national news. Interesting, perhaps; network news worthy in a time where our country is about to go into civil war? No.
Strange, didn’t they recently finish a realty drama about the murder of a women with a very similiar name to Stacy Peterson?
You’re right on about the Law and Order re-runs. It’s wild how at any given second, any day of the week, you cannot turn the channel without stumblin upon one in progress. It used to be that way with the forensic shows. I liked those much better than Law & Order. I guess they ran out of real murders and “cold-cases” to document and they’re waiting a year for them to catch up.
Hillary's not a woman. End of story.
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