News and Politics | September 25, 2008 | 10 comments

Fox Doesn’t Want You to Know About McCain’s Role in Keating Five

source: http://www.infowars.com/?p=4849

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‘Cut his mike,’ producer suggests

The Keating Five scandal, and John McCain’s role in it, has received relatively little mention in presidential campaign coverage, and at least one Fox News host seems dedicated to keeping it that way.

Appearing Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, radio host Mike Papatino tried to remind viewers about McCain’s intervention with federal regulators on behalf of real estate mogul Charles Keating, who was trying to avoid regulations of a savings and loan he owned during the S&L crisis of the 1980s.

F&F’s Steve Doocy told Papatonio to "pipe down," called him "rude" and demanded he "cut it out." A show producer could be overheard saying "cut his mike."

As Papatonio tries one last time to explain the details of the Keating Five scandal, Doocy again cuts him off.

"This is not the History Channel," he says.



Papatonio’s apparent crime was interrupting fellow guest Michael Reagan, the conservative radio host, who was arguing that it would be unfair to judge McCain based on his actions 20 years ago.

"It has everything to do with what’s happening today," Papatonio said before being told to pipe down.

Regardless of whether Papatonio was being rude, preserving an orderly debate certainly could not have been Doocy’s goal in silencing the guest. Not two minutes before his admonition that Papatonio was "being rude," Doocy repeatedly interrupted his guest to deliver talking points that might as well have been written by the McCain campaign.

At least three times Doocy interrupted Papatonio as he argued that McCain’s political gambit to "suspend" his campaign and delay Friday’s debate was more a response to his flagging poll numbers than an attempt to fix the economic crisis. Doocy wasn’t buying it.

"If Barack Obama wants to do so much for the economy, why doesn’t he go to his day job and work in the us senate?" he asked Reagan, cutting off Papatino’s argument.
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10 comments // Fox Doesn’t Want You to Know About McCain’s Role in Keating Five

  • busboydanny
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      busboydanny  

    • It still amazes me to every time that I watch Fox News how far up the GOP's ass they are.

      And as has already been said, we are not supposed to judge John Mccain on his past, but yet why do we have to hear his knee-jerk response to every tough question that is asked of him, "Look, when I was a POW, it was very hard..."?

      Being a POW does NOT automatically qualify you to be President despite what Johnny boy might think.

    • 3 years ago
  • NeoDotCom
  • buttcrack
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      buttcrack  

    • McCain is fond of mobsters. He sent birthday cards to Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonano, the head of the New York Bonano crime family, after the notorious mobster retired in Arizona.,,,,,,,,something else you wont hear about on the news

    • 3 years ago
  • kDrew_Productions
  • Argon18
  • dissimulator
  • rightbrain
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      rightbrain  

    • It's not just Fox, I've seen no mention of the Keating 5 from any of the major news networks. I suppose the mega corps figure the public has short memories, why not 'journalists' as well?

    • 3 years ago
  • khromadjo
  • khromadjo
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      khromadjo  

    • The link is frozen on the site.

      Funny about the comment "Papatonio’s apparent crime was interrupting fellow guest Michael Reagan, the conservative radio host, who was arguing that it would be unfair to judge McCain based on his actions 20 years ago."

      McCain was a POW more than 20 years ago and that's fair game, so why not the Keating Five?

      I smell hypocrisy.

    • 3 years ago
  • rachelmaechel
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