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John McCain thinks Obama's "spread the wealth" comment is a major gotcha. He has locked his chops around this remark like a terrier around Obama's ankle and keeps repeating it. He regards it as self-evidently self-damning. On Meet the Press, McCain ducked Tom Brokaw's invitation to agree or disagree with Sarah Palin that Obama is a "socialist." But a day later McCain brandished a radio interview from seven years ago in which Obama had used the term redistributive change...
Rovito, Michael •legitimate question to Palin by is cited by McCain as "gotcha journalism...
...While he's been the target of occasional criticism for failing to bludgeon candidates with tricky questions and gotcha set-ups, his even-keeled approach has sustained Lehrer's enduring broadcasting career. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and its previous incarnations) has been a staple on PBS since 1975. "Objectivity is almost impossible. Fairness is never impossible," Lehrer said in a speech at Brown University. "And all that people have a right to expect is that they will be treated fairly." It may sound like hairsplitting, but this belief - that in their work, journalists must actively conquer their...
...must appear to be true, clever and, especially, spontaneous. So teams of moonlighting Hollywood comedy writers have been churning out ideas for weeks. The classic of the genre is Ronald Reagan's retort to Jimmy Carter in 1980: "There you go again." But nothing is worse than an overlabored gotcha line that falls horribly flat, so spin doctors must first do no harm. Part of this is to gently persuade the candidates to be totally relaxed and natural while simultaneously being very careful not to really be themselves. When Joe Biden squares off against Sarah Palin on Oct. 2, Biden...
...Gotcha! It turns out that John McCain, while crusading against wasteful spending, specifically objected to three earmarks that Sarah Palin requested as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, including a dubious agricultural-processing facility designed to promote local produce. In fact, Palin has a consistent record of chasing the bacon that McCain has fought for years. She pulled in $27 million in earmarks as mayor, requested $450 million in earmarks as governor and even supported the state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it. There isn't enough lipstick in Alaska to cover all that pork. (See photos of Sarah...