September 25, 2008
Categories: McCain
McCain to do round of network interviews tonight
John McCain will appear on all three network newscasts tonight, a top aide said.
McCain is at the White House meeting with President Bush, Barack Obama and congressional leaders now and will tape interviews with NBC, ABC and CBS after the West Wing session.
McCain also appeared in a taped interview last night with Katie Couric on CBS.
Aides are still in wait-and-see mode on whether they'll attend the debate but are prepared to have the candidate jet down to Memphis, the closest major airport to Oxford, as late as tomorrow afternoon if a deal is reached.
UPDATE: Barack Obama will also appear on all three network newscasts tonight, aides said.
The presence of both candidates on the national news underscores just how intent each is on staying visible and appearing engaged as the federal government crafts a massive bailout of Wall Street.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/McCain_to_do_round_of_network_interviews_tonight.html?showallObama Spokesman: McCain Campaign Telling TV Stations To Start Re-Airing Ads On SaturdayBy Greg Sargent - September 25, 2008, 9:52PM
So how long is the McCain campaign really yanking its ads for amid McCain's "suspension" of his campaign to deal with the financial crisis?
Well, until Saturday, it appears -- whether or not the financial crisis is resolved.
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton tells us that the McCain campaign is specifically instructing TV stations to start re-airing McCain's ads on Saturday.
The Obama camp would presumably be getting such info from its own media buyers, who are in touch regularly with the TV stations.
So it looks like the McCain camp's yanking of ads is a charade. Or maybe McCain knows in advance somehow that we'll all have fixed on a solution to the crisis by Saturday?
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/obama_spokesman_mccain_campaig.phpHe is what we thought he was!
