CNN Labels McCain’s Democratic One-Party Rule Line ‘Scare Tactics’

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CNN anchor Kiran Chetry referred to John McCain’s warning of Democratic Party rule in both the White House and the Congress if Barack Obama is elected president as "scare tactics" during a preview of a report on Thursday’s American Morning: "Five more days -- the scare tactics continue. Should you be afraid of one party rule?" A clip of McCain naming Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a possible "dangerous threesome" played after Chetry’s line.

During the actual report, correspondent Jim Acosta highlighted such "scare tactics" from both presidential candidates. First, he described how McCain "is telling voters to be afraid, very afraid of Democratic dominance in Washington." He later stated how Obama "has his own boogieman, as in the man who has controlled the White House for the last eight years," meaning President Bush. Note that while Acosta gave examples of both candidates playing the so-called fear card, Chetry’s preview only referred specifically to McCain.

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Towards the end of his report, Acosta revisted past occasions where one party controlled both the presidency and the Congress: "...[V]oters have little patience for one party government. Bill Clinton’s Democratic Congress was swept way in just two years by Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, and Karl Rove’s dream of a permanent Republican majority didn't last long."

The full transcript of Chetry’s preview, which aired 52 minutes into the 6 am Eastern hour of Thursday’s American Morning, and Acosta’s report, which began just after the bottom half of the 7 am hour of the CNN program:

-6:52 am EDT

KIRAN CHETRY: Five more days -- the scare tactics continue. Should you be afraid of one party rule?

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, this is a dangerous threesome.

-7:33 am EDT

KIRAN CHETRY: Well, John McCain [is] trying to raise fears of a government controlled by the far left. He’s telling voters that Barack Obama will be in lock-step with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. But if history is any guide, the voters could spoil any one party -- party. American Morning’s Jim Acosta is here to explain. Hey, Jim.

JIM ACOSTA: Good morning, Kiran, and it is just one day before Halloween and John McCain is telling voters to be afraid, very afraid of Democratic dominance in Washington.

ACOSTA (voice-over): John McCain is warning of a Washington horror show. Barack Obama, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are quote, ‘lowering our defenses,’ as the GOP nominee puts it, and raising our taxes.

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: My opponent is working out the details with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid of their plans to raise your taxes, increase spending, and concede defeat in Iraq.

ACOSTA: It's a campaign message some dub as ‘boo.’

MCCAIN: You know, my friends, this is a dangerous threesome.

ALEX CASTELLANOS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: The idea of letting these guys spend and tax without anybody there to stop them scares the American people. Those undecided voters who are -- have not yet committed to Obama, this argument could work with them.

ACOSTA: Pelosi, who remains a popular conservative target, says there’s nothing to be afraid of.

SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: If the Democrats win and they have substantial majorities, [the] Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

ACOSTA: But many Republicans are still fuming over what they consider Pelosi’s less-than-bipartisan speech in the House, just before the initial defeat of the bailout package.

PELOSI: They claim to be free market advocates when it's really an anything goes mentality. Those days are over.

ACOSTA: Obama has his own boogieman, as in the man who has controlled the White House for the last eight years.

SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: The biggest risk we can take is to embrace the same old policies that have failed us over the last eight years.

ACOSTA: But voters have little patience for one party government. Bill Clinton’s Democratic Congress was swept way in just two years by Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, and Karl Rove’s dream of a permanent Republican majority didn't last long.

CASTELLANOS: So if Obama is elected, Republicans may not be in the wilderness for very long. You can see a Republican Congress back in two years.

ACOSTA (on-camera): And one party in power can only do so much. Unless the Democrats can gain nine seats in the Senate and reach that magic number of 60 seats, the Republicans will still have the power of the filibuster.

CHETRY: Yeah, but --

ACOSTA: Remember that word.

CHETRY: Right, but there is a chance that they could gain those nine seats.

ACOSTA: It’s a real chance. We'll have to look at how things shape up. A lot of people thought it was a stretch six months ago -- not so much now.

CHETRY: A tough fight for a lot of incumbents. Jim Acosta, thanks.

ACOSTA: You bet.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Why is it that McCain is

Why is it that McCain is using "scare tactics," yet the same tag does not apply when Obama runs ads to terrify senior citizens about how McCain is supposedly going to gut Medicare and leave people without healthcare?

I know, it's a rhetorical question.

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Hero's "retro" blog. / "People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will

People... Give Kiran A Break!

I'm sure Chetry would say the exact same thing if the situation were reversed.

I'm terrified

The one-party rule of Pelosi, Reid, and obama should scare the hell out of EVERY American!

Add to the bag of nuts: Dodd, Frank, Rangel, Shumer...

God Help us all!!

 

When the DNC is the one party . . .

You're damned straight I'm scared of one-party rule!

 


Ahh, Kiran, you poor lost

Ahh, Kiran, you poor lost soul. Ever since you departed the Fair and Balanced dream, you've been slowly assimilated and absorbed into Ted Turner's liberal land of CNN. The indoctrination and reeducation has taken root in your conciousness.

Ted Turner is a Racist!

Don't believe me just watch the  flip side of "Gods and Generals"Ted is right there singing the "bonnie blue flag"  of the confederacy.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Kiran Chetry take off the Halloween mask babe

Obviously Kiran Chetry was playing ugly hag witch for her CNN bosses.
It is a strange Halloween disease which manifests when you are at FOX and raising your short shirts, crossing your legs to beaver country, then trying to get people fired.........getting fired yourself and then showing up in the liberal CNN's head office in the same short skirt doing whatever to get the job.

Chris Wallace has the same soul selling gliche. Rupert tells him be for the GOP, Wallace waxes for the GOP. Rupert tells him to be for Obama, Wallace is for Obama.

Chetry spread her way to the top and is a soulless hag playing Halloween scare witch, because that is how she keeps her job.

Ponder that in the revulsion a normal person would have in being paid to be a propagandist for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers. People here would quit or get fired after telling the world the scam CNN is about like 99% of the media.
Kiran Chetry though just cashes the check, doesn't give a blessing about the United States or the havoc Obama will create in the world. All she cares about is Kiran Chetry. She got her wimpish sperm donor husband in his place and has her motherhood child.

All is wonderful in Chetryland as Truth doesn't matter. She is the equal to the amoral Obama.

 

agtG

 

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Chetry must support Obama's radical abortion policies

The next time you see Chetry on CNN, with her sweet smiling face, just remember one thing-The pushing and promotion of Obama by Chetry proves that she must approve of his radical and inhumane abortion views. Take this into account the next time you see her. Having control over that womb is all that matters to these soul-less people. It is sick and we should feel sorry for them that they have such a warped view of life and what it means. Kiran, she's the gal who gets all upset over lobsters who feel discomfort and expresses outrage over birds who have the great misfortune of being hit with a dart. But, leave a living human being to die in a metal dish in the hospital closet, or stab the precious human life in the skull, and it's some RIGHT that they think is blessed by God and etched in stone. Sick and selfish people.

 But, on the bright side, Chetry has a beautiful house in the exclusive 'burbs' and is loved by Hollywood and the fringe left. Congratulations to Kiran. She's really made it now.

Wow Kris... You summed it

Wow Kris...

You summed it all up for me perfectly...glad I read your post first...you saved me some typing.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Didn't this Bubble head

Just have a child. I am not so sure that supporting Obama means what you have said here. I agree that life is sacred. I am just not so sure that she has drawn such distict and graphic lines of reason between these two things. Any life taken especially the innocent is a tragedy. 50 million since 1973. Fine legacy for future generations. Oh how they will laugh at us and pity our choices. Kind of like looking at the way certain culyures behave that we may loath today and realizing, that we have done tremendous , undue harm and some of the thing that they believe, are right and just. The Unborn. Wow , what a waste. Imagine the loss.

I read where Chetry said she was a Christian

I saw a quote from Chetry's yahoo group saying that Kiran is a Christian. Now, you tell me, what true Christian wants to support a candidate who holds such barbaric, cruel and extreme views when it comes to the value of innocent human life? I think Kiran has always been for abortion, but just in case she isn't, could it be the case that the promises of utopian prosperity and a fat 401K means more to her than the savage denial of life to millions? As I said, she's supposedly a Christian. Yeah right.

Sometimes the Truth is scary

I don't see the problem with pointing out scary facts about your opponent.  Does anyone argue the fact that if Obama wins, there will be Democrats in charge of Congress and the White House?  Even if you are a Democrat shouldn't it concern you that there wouldn't be any checks and balances on power (and nothing to prevent abuses of power)?

Scarier than the scariest Halloween costume

It is a scare tactic.

Just one glance at that photo circulating of the Unholy Triumvirate Obama, Reid & Pelosi should cause one to recoil in horror.

Obama has Exhibited his Leadership

While in the Illinois Senate Barack Obama exhibited the type of leadership he will use should he become POTUS.

When faced with the BAIPA (Born Alive Infant Protection Act) which Barack Obama virulently opposed.

Barack Obama decided - NOT on immediate action to present medical aid to those babies dying in excruciating pain and then work out his political differences.

Barack Obama decided - To let the babies die in excruciating pain until others would agree with his political objections and ONLY then would he try to give medical aid to the babies.

Barack Obama will use that same judgment and leadership when you need help in his 'Sacrifice for the Common Good' health insurance.

http://hisfacts.blogtownhall.com/2008/10/21/obamas_radical_and_communist_alliances.thtml

Voice of Experience

I live in Illinois.  The governor and both chambers of the congress are Democrat-controlled.  Be afraid, be very afraid, if this happens on a national level and it's anything like here. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

»→ Khalidi

Obama's buddy Khalidi says backroom dealing is the best way to achieve progress.

How's that working for inner city Chi-Town?

  • Even if I want to take them [guns] away, I don't have the votes in Congress - B H Obama

TRUTH About Democrats!

Now that is a scary thing!

Look at the States and Cites with Democrat Rule.  They ALL fail!

Do we want America to become another Detroit, Michigan?????

Democrats Rule the State and the City.  Andi it's as bad as it gets!

Of course there's the shining example of Washigton DC where the Democrats 9 and Blacks) Rule.  And that is nearly as bad as Detroit!

Then, there's Obama's own Chicago!  Murder capitaol USA!  Way to go Barack, you fucked that place up good and now you want to do it to the whole Country!

NOT ON MY Watch MF~!

»→ Chasvs

Typically states with much larger metropolitan concentrations tend Democrat.

Large cities depend heavily on government money, hence, Democrat begging.

  • Even if I want to take them [guns] away, I don't have the votes in Congress - B H Obama

Obama wants us to "Sacrifice for the Common Good" only words?

 

Only Words - killed over 100,000,000

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." -- Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, addressing the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, 2-25-56

"The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual." -- Adolph Hitler

"We need to spread the wealth" Barack Obama

"To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole." -- Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, National Socialist German Workers' ("Nazi") Party

"...true patriotism also means a willingness to sacrifice for our common good..."
Barack Obama July 6, 2008

John Adams

John Adams, just one of the great "absolutely" astonishing minds present during the birth of the great nation of America, cared for nothing but the freedom of the people. The Freedom of all against tyranny shall never be surrendered. Some may say that the Federalists were wrong, they were not, a central place and position of power is essential to the common good reflecting only thier desire for harmony and the right to persue happiness.

Is there any wonder people why the rest of the world is so enamoured with your dialogue. A guiding light of freedom at all cost resides in your great nation that we want to preserve for all future generations. We have that light here in Canada and fight always for its continuance. Vote McCAIN!

results of an obama nation...tax plan

Ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. They decided to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes:

The first four men (the poorest) paid nothing.

The fifth paid $1.

The sixth paid $3.

The seventh paid $7.

The eighth paid $12.

The ninth paid $18.

The tenth man (the richest) paid $59.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers', he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80'.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the

first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what

about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the

$20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized

that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from

everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up

being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be

fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he

proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).

The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savi ngs).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20', declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

'Yeah, that's right', exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get

anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat

down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible

 

Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.