Chuckie T's miserable defense of McShame's agreement with a draft

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/21/media-mccain-draft/

Media Rally To McCain’s Defense, Give Him ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt’ On Draft Comments

During a townhall meeting yesterday, an audience member asked a long-winded question that ended with a call to enact the military draft in order to “chase bin Laden to the gates of Hell.” McCain immediately replied, “I don’t disagree with anything you said.”

Brushing off his instant response, some journalists are refusing to take McCain’s statement at face value. “Does McCain favor a draft? Nope,” the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder wrote on his blog yesterday, deriding liberals for “having a conniption.” When asked about the quote last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd declared he was going to “give McCain the benefit of the doubt,” unbelievably claiming McCain was simply advocating some form of national service:

TODD: Let me just go there and give McCain the benefit of the doubt as to what he might have thought he was agreeing to. Which is that he has been a big advocate on the national service front, as has Obama, as sort of mandatory service in some form, that you see a lot of politicians take. So it is possible that that’s what he was talking about.

(snip)

Given the context, it is impossible to believe McCain was talking about a kind of “mandatory service” program, not only because he never addressed such an idea in his full answer, but also because, unlike Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), McCain has no national service plan.

(snip)

In March, Chuck Todd brushed off McCain's erroneous claims that Iran was training al Qaeda, saying that McCain's "got enough...in the bank at least with the media that he can get away with it."

(end snips)

Chuckie has one job, to keep the race tight. Tight race = high ratings = money for corporate wars = big money for corporate war profiteering bigs.

Here's my take: If McShame couldn't keep his attention long enough on the soldier's mom to hear what she was saying, then he's got a health problem. If McShame didn't mean what he said, then he lied to a soldier's mom. If he meant what he said, and I haven't seen yet a denial from him or his campaign, then he just ended his campaign (as if he hasn't before with so many scandals one cannot keep track). The MEdia won't touch it cause the campaign will then be lop sided, which it should be. I will not give McShame a break on this. Never. He either lied to that woman, or he has made another tremendous flip flop. :grr:

Some sort of national service, my arse.

[Dinger]

1. Tight Race (5% Or Less) Means diebold Takes The Vote,

not the voters. Scary shit.

[gaiilonfong]

2. Chuck Todd is looking to be asked to buy in Nantucket

so he can hang with Brokaw and Carly Fiorina and the other reTHUGlican trolls

[Supersedeas]

3. Amazing how McRove gets so many doubtful benefits from the Free Ride Media

[jimshoes]

4. So McSame doesn't speak for McSame...

OK. Another 4 arduous years of "What the preznit really meant".