McCain retaliates against CNN for asking tough questions

Why can't they (both sides), admit the obvious and talk about how the hell they propose to fix the problems that really threaten the US.

You know, problems like medical care, food and fuel, energy, global warming, executive branch abuses, deteriorating infrastructure, raising private armies, corruption in government...to name just a quick few...

Love it, finally a reporter who hold a suit's feet to the fire! Not willing to let the canned answer go! No wonder mccain didn't want to appear,

I watched C. Brown's interview with Tucker last night and I turned to my wife in the middle of it and said, "She's not interviewing him ...she's debating him like a Democratic pundit." Then C. Brown used that very word to describe the exchange..."Thank you for sharing in this DEBATE Tucker." Why is C. Brown debating??? I thought she was a reporter? Is Ms. Brown running for office? When I witnessed the interview last night I thought Ms. Brown's argumentative attitude betrayed a bias that went well beyond reporting.
Then tonight I listened as the CNN gang circled the wagons, told Ms. Brown that she'd done nothing wrong and laughed off her betrayal of he reporting role. If Ms. Brown wants to argue with and debate Republicans... please have her step out of the anchor chair and let Wolf or Anderson interview her as an attack dog for the Democrats. If CNN can't see that Ms.Brown crossed the line and needs to reel her back in, then her defection to "Debating" her guests rather than interviewing them will continue and her credibility as a reporter is compromised by her, not so hidden bias.
The real low mark of the coverage was tonight when the reporters/debaters took on the victim role, suggesting that the Republican's pulling the Larry King interview was just another example of politicians abusing the news media. There's an old adage that says, "If you argue for your errors in judgment, you get to keep them". It looks like this is a keeper for Ms. Brown and the CNN reporters/debaters. I'm disappointed.

wow, she is my new favorite reporter. demand a real answer from every politician of all parties.

more importantly, cnn actually asked some tough questions.

FINALLY!!

Of course should be equipped to answer tough questions in a situation like this, but to expect him to be able to give an exact scenario on the spot in which Palin exercised relevant "command" type authority seems a bit extreme. that still doesn't mean he should try to "weasel" around the question.

Way to go Campbell!!! I am surprised McCain canceled the appearance. He was probably told to do it!
Shame...

CNN showed a clip of this today at the RNC. I don't think Larry King was pleased with the McCain campaign trying to hide the News, he told viewers to watch it online.
King stood up for freedom of press and said they report the news and will continue to, regardless of McCain.

I thought it was funny, like a SNL skit.

She knows her state is near Russia.

She didn’t even have a passport until 2007.

http://current.com/items/89256475_palin_expert_on_russia_because_they_re_right_next_door

the debates are gonna be absolutely epic. this needs to be voted up.

Run to Fox daddy McCain...run...

Wow. Campbell Brown. I haven't seen the likes of that kind of reporting for many moons. More. More!

You know I thought I heard something ripping the other night....I know now it was Campbell tearing into this stooge!

I mean was he even taking part in the same interview she was conducting? He was rambling off this programmed answers that lowly if at all connected to the questions.

Great job Mrs. Brown!

This was a pleasant surprise. Campbell Brown is usually unimpressive and I worry about the influence of her husband, who was the chief propagandist for the "Coalition" forces in Iraq.

In this video Palin speaks of God's Will for the oil industry and people to work together..God's Will. Yet this clown states she was against big oil. What a shame it is to even have to be subject to this level of lies!

http://current.com/items/89263348_palin_and_her_church

Good tough questions. I always wonder why cable news reporters don't ask simple clarifying follow-up questions more often. A consistent "Such as...?" or "How so?" would go a long way to repairing the reputation of the American media.

He seemed very defensive and never really answered her one key question.

How can you or better yet, why would you neutralize your one major argument against Barack Obama.

Everyday I read people on Current talk about Obama's lack of experience. That was the conservative's number 1 attack.

Now it's gone. It's moot. Finished.

The only way you can still beat that drum is if completely contradict yourself and say it's cool for one and unacceptable for the other.

He refused to touch that with a ten foot pole because he knows there is really no answer. This is the part about the Palin pick I don't get.

Why neutralize your own best weapon?

Campbell: So Tucker, can you name one foreign policy decision that Sarah Palin has made?

Tucker: Hummana, hummana, hummana, hummana

Kudos to CNN (about time!) for showing some chutzpah and going after the McCain camp. Someone needs to stand up and demand more truth in reporting!

fox news wants the 'liberal' media to be tough on politicians as long as those politicians are not on the right wing/republican.