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McCain Withers Under Questioning of ... Jon Stewart

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Posted on Apr 6, 2006
Jon Stewart and John McCain
From crooksandliars.com

Jon Stewart grills Sen. John McCain on his hard-right stances.

The “Daily Show’s” “fake news” interview exposed Sen. John McCain’s far-right hypocrisies better than most interviewers in the traditional media.

Even the AP asks whether McCain has gone hard right.


Crooks and Liars:

Kevin Drum read my mind, although I didn’t think Russert did a bad job on McCain:

“Jon Stewart grilled John McCain last night about McCain’s recent efforts to cozy up to Jerry Falwell and demonstrated that sometimes fake journalists do their jobs better than real ones. He pressed McCain harder than Tim Russert did last Sunday and got McCain flustered enough that he finally ran out of ways to defend himself. Here’s their closing exchange:

Stewart: You’re not freaking out on us? Are you freaking out on us? Because if you’re freaking out and you’re going into the crazy base world—are you going into crazy base world?

McCain: I’m afraid so.

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By MS, April 7, 2006 at 6:53 am Link to this comment
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All I know is that the right wing of the Republican Party doesn’t trust him and the Left Wing of the Democratic Party is attacking him. In my mind, that is a good sign. We need a MODERATE president who will bring the country together. No one should listen to the right or the left on what they have to say about Senator McCain.

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By G.D., April 6, 2006 at 7:52 pm Link to this comment
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He is not conservative. if he could retain his popularity he would switch over to the Dem. party in a heartbeat.

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By C. M. Baxter, April 6, 2006 at 3:10 pm Link to this comment
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I know this is way off subject but I couldn’t find the subject I wanted to talk about posted anywhere on Truthdig; namely, the subject of Georgia Democratic Congress Woman, Cynthia McKinney.  I’m sure you all, including Truthdig, know the story.  If you don’t, just turn to any news channel in America.  Failure to even mention the story puts Truthdig right down there in the propaganda pigsty with the Conservatives.  This only further convinces me that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives really care about the truth or the American People.  They care only about power and the Bushies happen to have the biggest gang right now.  Thuthdig?  How about “Turthbury

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By bob johnson, April 6, 2006 at 10:59 am Link to this comment
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INCREDIBLE. McCain is a right wing freak.

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By JP, April 6, 2006 at 4:53 am Link to this comment
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Hard to deny he’s pandering.  He’s too much of a “maverick,” he has to prove he’s conservative enough.

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