From Jonathan Martin:
John McCain told Newsweek that he did not deliver a portion from the prepared text of his speech last Tuesday chiding the media for not giving Hillary Clinton her due. But video from McCain's address shows him giving the line as written.
"The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans," McCain said in a nationally-broadcast speech in Kenner, Lousiana. "And she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometime received."
Asked about this statement in an interview last week with Newsweek's Holly Bailey and Jon Meacham, McCain interjected, "I did not [say that]—that was in prepared remarks, and I did not [say it]—I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage."
Presented with video showing that the GOP nominee did in fact read the remarks as they were prepared, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said Newsweek's account of McCain's answer is "paraphrased and unclear."
Rogers said he was not questioning the magazine's transcription, but pointing out that they included brackets.
But, given that he was responding to a direct question about a portion of the speech, it's unclear what else McCain could have been alluding to when noting twice that he "did not." That he also pointed out that the same section had been "in the prepared remarks" only clarifies that he was referring to the passage in question.
Newsweek's Bailey said the McCain quote as included in their q-and-a posted online was verbatim.
YouTube Video of McCain speech:
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McCain is going to hand over the White House to Obama with these types of gaffes or lies or whatever you will call it. People will eventually start to believe that maybe he isn't lying, but rather these 'misstatements' have to do with his age. People don't want a senile old man in the White House. This man doesn't understand new technology and the fact that YouTube will probably hasten his demise.
This is a sign that McCain has been underprepared for the fall campaign given his charmed life as a national press favorite. McCain's bullying evasion is the second campaign tic, the first is his habit of reflexive, and righteous denials which he's apparently been able to get away with over the years due to the many passes afforded him by the MSM. McCain is not likely to hold up over a multi-month presidential race. And the bullying, unlike the righteous denial, doesn't even temporarily make McCain look good, in fact it may lead to the witnessing of his notorious temper tantrums by the American public via the airwaves, if it happens at the right moment...like a televised debate. One can only hope!
If McCain's increasing "forgetfulness" doesn't sink him, his anger will, but rest assured, McCain's fall will not be hastened by the MSM doing it's job.
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