Posted on 10/31/2004 1:26:24 AM PDT by Cableguy
DES MOINES -- John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button.
ADVERTISEMENT Kerry advisers quickly backtracked, however, concluding that an escalating conflict with a major cable channel just days before the election would do nothing to help the Democratic nominee. Kerry senior adviser Mike McCurry spoke to Fox executives Friday and yesterday and was told that the Fox News host, Neil Cavuto, may address the remark on Monday's show, officials from Fox and the Kerry campaign said.
The furor was a rare moment of visible frustration inside the Kerry camp: Kicking a major cable outlet off of the candidate's plane would almost certainly spark a run of negative stories in the media about Kerry lieutenants lashing out and their preelection confidence vanishing.
After the videotape of bin Laden was widely broadcast Friday afternoon, a Republican guest on Cavuto's show said the Al Qaeda leader's criticisms of President Bush amounted to ''an endorsement" of Kerry. A second guest objected, saying, ''I don't think he's going to have a Kerry-Edwards sticker in the cave."
Chimed in Cavuto: ''He's all but doing that. I thought I saw a button."
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As if the Kerry Campaign will be making any news after a few days from now, anyway...
So much for freedom of speech!
Kerry ought to know by now that if you can't take it, you shouldn't dish it out.
What a p*ssified mama's boy.
LOL
Oh geez I saw that show. It was a JOKE.
Sarcasm is so lost on those freaks.
If Bin Laden is trying to get Bush defeated, then who is he throwing his support to? Kerry. It's not rocket science. Kerry's just pissed off because it's true.
Hahaha... That's a good one, Neil!
I love neil. Witty, brash, he tells it like it is. I hate politically correct pundits.
You think?
Maybe FNC will start reporting Kerry's treason.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41200
Love your tagline.
I found a couple great quotes to apply to Mama T:
"She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all."
and
"From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away."
Raymond Chandler. :)
What a bunch of whiners. President Bush has had to deal with 100 times worse than this from 90% of the media.
Sarcasm is so lost on those freaks.
It's OK when they same something like that -- man, that campaign must be falling apart for them to get their panties in a bunch like that.
I wish they'd followed through and kicked them off. This would have unleased Fox to bring out the Swift Vet/Discharge stories on the MOST listened to network.
No one can travel along with Michael Moore on his plane at all. There's no room.
The new John Kerry ad:
"Vote for John Kerry"
I`m Osama Bin Laden and I approve this message.
I have a better idea...Let's ban the Democrats from American politics.
I don't remember this kind of bitterness since Arthur Godfrey fired Julius LaRosa on the air...
BUMP what you said.
There is obviously some tension going on in that Kerry campaign, for obvious reasons. Like, they are losing.
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