Not joking!
This reporter obtained a transcript of the meeting during which the Obama team made the decision.
Someone said, "We want to do this but we've got a problem — last September you wrote that you would aggressively pursue an agreement with your Republican opponent for public financing. And then last February, when Tim Russert asked you why you wouldn't keep your word on that, you said you would sit down with John McCain and make sure that we have a system that is fair for both sides."
"Yes," says someone else, "but you didn't really promise to do it, just to 'pursue an agreement,' and let's face it, if we're free to raise a ton of money above the public financing limit we can bury McCain with more television ads than any candidate has ever been able to run in the history of presidential politics."
"Okay," says someone else. "But we've got to word the announcement in a way that makes it sound like we are actually taking the high ground in this matter. That we are the ones fighting against the big money in politics."
Well of course, I have no such transcript, I don't know what they said to each other, but I do know what Sen. Obama said on his Web site about this.
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Hey, ABC, I have a fake transcript from an imaginary meeting of McCain advisors that says he's actually a woman. I imagine you'd like to print that too, right?
This is a new low for punditry. Sam Donaldson should be ashamed of himself.
That these people dare impugn the credibility of bloggers and label them as "amateurs" or whatever other bullshit they use to justify their salaries makes me rage.
For what Donaldson gets paid, you could hire three, four, or more investigative reporters that are actually worth something. This is a travesty.
Sometimes I wonder if my journalism degree is going to amount to anything in this kind of environment. So, Kossacks, help me out-