ABC's Cynthia McFadden Fawns Over 'Genuine' Pals, Hillary and Obama

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Cynthia McFadden, ABC, "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden on Monday used the opportunity of the first dual interview with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to gush over the two Democrats and offer no challenging questions. Speaking to the senators after a campaign rally in Florida, she fawned, "You looked pretty good up there together." The co-anchor also excitedly tossed this softball to Clinton and Obama: "Are you going to win? Are you going to win down here?"

Fully embracing Democratic talking points that the two once-bitter rivals are now friendly, McFadden fawned, "...Two weeks before the presidential election, they genuinely seemed to have bonded over their singular mission to put a Democrat in the White House." (Is that McFadden's mission too?)

Offering amateur psychology, the ABC host wondered, "How does it feel today? Still a little awkward or have we gotten over the awkward period in the relationship?" McFadden presented no questions about Obama running mate Joe Biden's assertion on Sunday that the Illinois senator would be tested by a major international crisis in the first six months of his potential presidency. In addition, there were no questions about terrorist bomber William Ayers or any other serious issue.

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But McFadden did seem to make fun of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's remarks last week that she liked visiting "pro-America" parts of the country. The reporter mockingly asked Obama, "So, are we in the real America? The pro-America part of America here in Florida?"

McFadden's interview was so accepting of Obama spin, that it was left to her co-anchor Martin Bashir to provide some much-needed skepticism. He queried, "Cynthia, these are two mightily ambitious people. He won the nomination, she did not. Are you telling me that their friendliness and their camaraderie was really genuine tonight?"

McFadden covered Clinton during the primaries and developed quite a history of putting forth easy questions to the senator. On December 19, 2007, she sympathetically mused, "There's never a night when you go back to whatever hotel room, whatever city you're in that night, and crawl in a ball and say, 'I just, this just hurts too much?" On January 30, 2008, McFadden returned to the subject and seriously asked, "When you lie awake at night...what worries you?"

A transcript of the segment, which aired at 11:35pm on October 20, follows:

MARTIN BASHIR: There's late news tonight from the presidential campaign trail. Barack Obama's 85-year-old grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, is gravely ill. So ill, that Obama will cancel two days of campaigning from Thursday to return to Hawaii to see her. This has come at a critical moment. There are just two weeks until Election Day. An ABC News poll released today found Obama holding a nine-point advantage among likely voters, over rival John McCain. And today in Florida, the largest battleground state, Barack Obama was joined by his former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. And perhaps surprisingly, they appeared as the best of friends, as my co-anchor, Cynthia McFadden now reports.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: Having followed Hillary Clinton around on the campaign trail for the better part of the last two years it seemed pretty obvious when she lost the nomination to Barack Obama and the two of them appeared on the stage together, well, it had about all the warmth of a shotgun wedding. An unquiet peace had been declared, but it was that, unquiet. We saw something different today here in Orlando, Florida where the two senators agreed for first time to a joint interview. It was a moment many thought would never happen and certainly not in Florida. And it crackled. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing a stage in Orlando as 50,000 enthusiastically united Democrats cheered them on.

PEDESTRIAN (FEMALES): Yes, we can.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: Hillary Clinton, who not so long ago tried to force the Democratic Party to count her one-sided win here, in Florida's primary.

SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON: Thank you, Orlando.

MCFADDEN: Tonight, those old wounds have been put aside as Clinton stood up and delivered.

CLINTON: We need you to work as hard as you can in the next two weeks. Many of you supported me in the primary and I am very grateful and very appreciative of each and every one of you. Now I am asking you to work as hard for Barack as you worked for me.

MCFADDEN: Obama seized the moment.

SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: The main thing I want to do is I want to thank Hillary Clinton.

Hillary, Hillary. Hillary.

MCFADDEN: And then turned his sights on John McCain.

OBAMA: Misleading mail and TV ads. Careless, outrageous statements, all aimed at keeping us from working together. All aimed at stopping change. I mean, it's getting so bad that Senator McCain's running mate denounced his tactics last night. Now, you have to work really hard to violate Governor Palin's standards on negative campaigning.

MCFADDEN: After the rally, we spoke exclusively with Senator Obama. What can Hillary Clinton do for you in Florida that you can't do for yourself here?

OBAMA: You know, Hillary I think is as effective a spokesperson for the Democratic idea, which is that everybody gets a fair shot. That's what she's been fighting for. You know, there are some passionate supporters of hers that, you know, may still be trying to figure out who to vote for. You know, she's got some great crossover appeal. And so, you know, for her to take the time to come down, and she's been consistent in campaigning down here in Florida for us. I think it's part of the reason why we're doing a little better now than we were just a month ago.

MCFADDEN: You think so?

OBAMA: Absolutely.

MCFADDEN: So, are we in the real America? The pro-America part of America here in Florida?

OBAMA: You know, as I said in my speech, I haven't been to a spot yet that's not pro-America. People have differences politically. But everybody is a patriot, and that's one of the things that I hope we get back to in our politics, if I'm elected president.

MCFADDEN: And then Senator Clinton joined him, for their first dual interview ever. Let me ask, let me say, the last time you two appeared on the stage together campaigning was a different time. The raw wound was still a little bit more open in June in New Hampshire. How does it feel today? Still a little awkward or have we gotten over the awkward period in the relationship?

CLINTON: No, we've had a great campaign.

OBAMA [Hugs Clinton]: She's been doing great. And I can't- I was just telling her, I can't thank her enough. And in places like Florida where she's got so much popularity, she can be a more effective messenger for us than just about anybody.

MCFADDEN: Are you going to win? Are you going to win down here?

CLINTON: We're going to win. I mean, we are going to win. This campaign has so much momentum for all the right reasons. Not only are people concluding, I think in their own self-interest, that they need Barack as our president, but external circumstances and the economy have focused everybody's attention on what's gone on for the last eight years. And, you know, what Barack is offering is the kind of change that is needed. It's not just campaign slogan. It is absolutely at the root of everything he stands for. And the more I campaign across the country I'm seeing people really make up their minds that they're voting for themselves by voting for Senator Obama.

MCFADDEN: You looked pretty good up there together. Thank you. [voice over] And that was true. They may not ride off into the sunset together, but tonight, two weeks before the presidential election, they genuinely seemed to have bonded over their singular mission to put a Democrat in the White House. Like 30 other states, Florida has early voting and today was first day of early voting here. Barack Obama would dearly like to have Florida's 27 electoral votes, but John McCain needs them. There is no road to the White House, according to most pundits, except through Florida for John McCain. We'll see what happens in this state. Right now the polls show the men neck in neck with Obama with a slight lead. Martin?

BASHIR: Cynthia, these are two mightily ambitious people. He won the nomination, she did not. Are you telling me that their friendliness and their camaraderie was really genuine tonight?

MCFADDEN: Well, of course I don't know, Martin. And maybe I'm easily persuaded but it did seem that the tension had gone out of the balloon. The two of them seemed to be joking around together, both when the camera was on and when the camera off. I can't tell you they're gonna be best friends forever, but I can tell you that something significant has changed in that relationship in the course of the last four months. At least it seemed so to me. Martin?

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.


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She's easily persuaded? No!

MCFADDEN: ... maybe I'm easily persuaded but it did seem that the tension had gone out of the balloon.

Hellooo, Cindy... and Barney is not a 'real' dinosaur. 

Oh, gag me with a small

Oh, gag me with a small eating utensil!

So Hillary,

how does it feel to be stumping for the guy that undercut your campaign and may have cost you the opportunity to ever be President?

Oh gawd NO...Barf-Bag

Oh gawd NO...Barf-Bag Time....again!

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

Scott. What if McFadden showed clip to..

Gee Scott, one has to wonder how fawny the genuine pal relationship might be if Cynthia McFadden reviewed this video clip with Hillary and Obama. In fact I wonder how the Democratic party and the black community might come out of it.

I'm speaking of the clip where Rev. Wright blasted Bill and Hillary Clinton for screwing "us" [the black community] over.

The video clip where Reverend Wright is ranting in hatred, as he thrusts his pelvic forward, suggesting  that Hillary would be as Bill Clinton had, scr--ed the blacks just as he did Monica Lewinski. This man doesn't just hate America - he even hates the Clinton's.

Rev. Wright:  Hillary is married to Bill and Bill have been good to us? No, he ain't! Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!

Congregation:  (cheers)

Rev. Wright:  He was riding dirty!

In other words, Clinton did the walk - but not the talk; he gave 'us' notin but lip service. 

I'd love to see the Democrats, the Clintons, the black communnity and the MSM have a full and open public discussion on that one. 

Bill Clinton's entire media driven legacy of this, that, or the other, is nothing but a legacy of loving each other. (;~/ gary

What she doesn't see is ......

is the dagger Hillary has in her hand behind her back......Oh ya......they're "pals"..........Bwahahahahahaha!!!! 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

oh yeah

If I were Obama, I wouldn't turn my back on her.

Or start my own car.

Or accept her invitation for a nighttime rowboat trip out to the middle of a lake

Or go jogging together in Fort Marcy park....

:-)

 

Why Hilly will Stab Obama in the back

Yeah and behind the Kenyan-Indonesian's back, Hillary is secretly voting McCain.  BTW, at the Alfred Smith Charity Dinner, did you all see Barack giving Hillary the finger again, after he mentioned her name? 

McFadden fawns...

I think I just threw up in my mouth...

Big Red Button

Leno is in reruns this week so I switched to Nightline last night. Big mistake.

I saw a portion of that McFadden piece and was reaching for a big red button to push. Certainly she doesn't really believe this Clinton - Obama hocus pocus.

What are these fawning idiots going to do if McCain happens to win the election?

Cella... If we have any

Cella...

If we have any kind of luck they will be following their ilk and the other lemmings and go jumping off that proverbial cliff....

I cannot wait!

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

I saw the picture

If Hillary had access to a straight razor, Barack would be a eunuch today!

 Oh wait!

Sorry, I could NOT read beyond the - Clinton and Obama bonding

Someone need some Hillary Votes ? ?
No October Surprises until BHO gets back from his Family visit...which must be why Biden is hiding.
NO ONE has EVER adequately explained BHO's Biden vp Pick. Now we know it wasn't foreign Policy .... it wasn't Biden' Political prowness . . ITS A MYSTERY .

HILLARY VOTERS SUING OBAMA IN RICO CASE

October 10, 2008

Clinton supporters sharing evidence for RICO case against Obama campaign

Posted by hillbuzz

If you haven’t been a regular here at HillBuzz, you might not know about Gigi Gaston’s documentary “We Will Not Be Silenced” on the caucus fraud deliberately orchestrated by the Obama campaign during the primaries.

Voter intimidation, registration fraud, vandalism, threats of violence, you name it, Obama’s supporters did it.

For veterans of the McGovern ‘72 campaign who remembered thugs and hooligans engaged in similar tactics in service of their own far left candidate, the actions of Obama’s followers were so bad that even people who’ve lived through the last 36 years of ups and downs in America testified that this is the worst thing they’ve ever seen happen to our democracy.

Gaston’s documentary continues to gather testimonials from people across the country — and we have word now that the people behind these efforts to document what Obama did during the primaries are also cooperating with law enforcement in an investigation into the Obama campaign’s efforts to undermine the true will of the people in the general election.

Republicans and centrist Democrats are joined together on this effort to get the truth out about Obama before the November election.

We firmly believe in McCain’s victory and do not believe it hinges on any developments with RICO. The polls, in our opinon, are wrong, and the internal numbers we see coming out of NC, VA, PA, OH, IN and FL show McCain wins in all of those states (there is no mathematical possibility for Obama to win without taking PA, OH, or FL). We believe after McCain’s win there will be a continued prosecution of Obama and members of the Democratic party for voter fraud under RICO statutes in the months and years ahead. ACORN and leftist Democrats have gone too far this time — for years ACORN has engineered deliberate election fraud using taxpayer dollars funneled to it by Democrats.

This time, with both Democrats and Republicans joined against them, ACORN Is going down…and we believe it will ultimately take Obama, Axelrod, and most of today’s Democratic leadership down with it.
What we have talked about here on HillBuzz, and what other stories like the one posted below have also noted, is just the tip of the iceberg. We have no idea what is going on behind closed doors: only what we observe in the news and what people more closely involved relate to us.

People leave comments here saying, “What’s the update? What’s the update?”. Well, there won’t be an update on this every day. We luck out and are told things, and we happily share them as soon as they make sense to us. Sometimes things fall in our lap, like noticing the story at the bottom of this post — which gives us the idea to make a few calls of our own — and that confirms things we’ve suspected, but can then write about fully.

There IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway - this has now been established by the mainstream media. Right now it’s rumored here in Chicago that Patrick Fitzgerald is heading it (confirmation on that has not come yet). There is a lot of activity in Chicago right now, with a lot of IRS agents looking into the finances coming in and out of this city, and across state lines (this was established on Monday when the GOP issued emergency press releases that much of Obama’s campaign contributions could very well be illegal foreign contributions - what appears to be deliberately poor record keeping designed to hide the true identities and monetary sources of online donors is at issue here). We see in 15 states now that ACORN is being busted for attempted voter fraud, and for fraudulent, illegal voter registratons in the hundreds of thousands, if not a million.

The article below states, and we have confirmed this with people who know for sure, that the people who gathered evidence of Obama’s fraud and voter intimidation techniques during the primaries against Hillary Clinton are sharing everything they have with the Republican Party and the federal government.

What’s happening here is something we have never seen before: centrist Clinton Democrats and Republicans are working together to expose the DNC and Obama campaign’s illegal activities and orchestrated, coordinated fraud. Both parties are working with federal agents to investigate ACORN, which has been funded with upwards of $800,000 in questionable donations from the Obama campaign (in what appears to be the expressed and explicit direction to engineer voter fraud in the general election). The tactics being employed now in the 15 states currently under investigation are the VERY SAME TACTICS we saw on the ground in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, and other states working for Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
And all of this ties back to Chicago.

Where the Obama campaign and DNC are now based.
Where people we know tip us off to little things to pay attention to that, when pieced together with all the other little pieces that are revealing themselves, leads to a single conclusion: there will be indictments for all of this.

We don’t know when they will come — but they will come. There is just too much here to ignore.
“Why didn’t the federal government get involved in the primaries?”, some people ask in comments. Well, we aren’t lawyers, but someone told us yesterday that the primaries are party affairs and are not governed by federal election laws. We’re sure a legal scholar will comment on this and set us straight.

The parties set the rules for their primaries…but the general election IS governed by federal election law. This is why Florida and Michigan were allowed to be such a mess for Democrats, and why Donna Brazile and Howard Dean got away with taking delegates away from Hillary Clinton and giving them, unearned, to Obama for Michigan: no federal agency had any ability to step in and ensure a fair resolution of the Michigan and Florida votes.

This was 100% in the hands of the Democratic party, which intended to award Obama its nomination since 2004. The party never intended to allow Hillary Clinton to win this thing — they always wanted Obama, and the party thus turned a deaf ear to our constant and repeated complaints of voter fraud, intimidation, and other thuggery by the Obama campaign from January through June.

That means, technically, nothing Obama did during the primaries was illegal…if our understanding of election law is true and political party primaries are not safeguarded under federal law. The things his campaign is orchestrating now, however, ARE violations of the law.

Thus, all the evidence Clinton supporters and Republicans have gathered of fraud and voter intimidation during the primaries establishes the pattern of behavior that’s allowing RICO investigators to clearly discern a national conspiracy, rooted in Chicago, to hijack this election and defraud the will of the people.

It’s all background information, with the RICO case seemingly evolving from the 15 separate investigations now underway in all states busting ACORN offices.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, is in damage control mode, trying to amend FEC filings to erase ACORN from all of its paperwork — including claiming the $800,000 the Obama campaign paid ACORN for voter fraud (including registering the dead and enlisting homeless people and college kids to illegally multi-vote in multiple states or multiple intrastate polling places) was actually awarded to an unrelated, though wholly owned, subsidiary of ACORN.

The media, which risked all its credibility betting on an Obama win, will not report any of this because when Obama falls, he will take America’s faith in journalism with him. Democrats, especially, will never trust the media again, since they will come to realize they lost a sure shot at taking back the White House with Hillary Clinton, because the media wanted to run an Obama campaign, and Howard Dean and Donna Brazile were all too pleased to oblige.

Republicans never trusted the media to begin with — so chalk that up, surprisingly, to yet another thing centrist Democrats now agree with Republicans on.
All of this is still developing and we do not know how many more breaks in this story will come before November 4th.

We do detect a purposeful breaking of something new in this story every few days. Monday was the reports of illegal contributions to the Obama campaign from overseas that tied into the $800,000 given to ACORN by Obama. On Wednesday, all Hell broke lose in 15 states with ACORN offices left and right busted for massive voter fraud operations. We don’t know about other cities, but lawyers here in Chicago are talking about something BIG going down.

 

McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012

Ayers Info

Bill Ayers webpage:

http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers

 

Bill Ayers email:

bayers@uic.edu

 

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