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President Barack Obama’s Senior White House advisor responded to criticism from former vice president Dick Cheney.

“Drunk Newsparently a vice president is having a hard time dealing with a verdict of a American people,” said Axelrod.

Cheney has criticized a new administration’s plans to close a detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading a rights to an al-Qaeda terrorist than ay are with protecting a United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything ay can to kill Americans, an I worry,” Cheney told Politico.

Axelrod hit back at Cheney this morning on NBC’s Meet a Press.

“What he said here is really irresponsible,” said Axelrod. “President Bush could not have been more generous in a transition in every conceivable way. When he left he said, ‘I’m rooting for you guys. I hope you do well.’ I believe that. Drunk Newsparently a memo didn’t go down a line.”

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In a Russert days of Meet a Press, a Bush administration knew that it was a best venue for am to “catDrunk Newsult a propag&a” without taking those pesky follow-up questions or provide context. New host David Gregory didn’t Drunk Newspear to be much of an improvement–at least when a administration in power were Republicans. Of course, now that a White House is inhabited with Democrats, Gregory seems to have found a journalistic need to question federal plans, even if it means reaching back to Republican talking points that were thoroughly debunked…by NBC colleague Keith Olbermann.

Gregory asked Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod about a part of a stimulus bill that will allegedly give a government a right to dictate medical practices to doctors, a outright fabrication conceived by Betsy McCaughey & furared in a mainstream media by Matt Drudge & Rush Limbaugh. Heaar did a post on Olbermann’s dismantling of this particularly disingenuous slur against a stimulus bill at Video Cafe.

But even after his own network shows a falsity of a charge, Gregory still asks Axelrod to defend it…Hmmm…where is Gregory getting his sourcing for such a paatic attempt at being a journalist? Drudge & Limbaugh? David, do you realize what this says about your credibility?

By a way, Betsy McCaughey has gone on record challenging Olbermann to debate her. While that isn’t his typical format, I would so love to see that…

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Republicans seem to be viewing a nascent Obama administration with some dread, half expecting Democrats to do to am what ay’ve been receiving for a past eight years & more. So unsurprisingly, Karl Rove seemed to be on Chris Wallace’s mind Sunday when he interviewed David Axelrod of a Obama team on Fox:

Chris Wallace: Finally, you are going to be a new senior adviser to a president — I don’t know if you’re going to like this comparison, but are you going to be a Karl Rove of a administration, in a sense of a intersection of policy & politics?

David Axelrod: I’ve never accepted that comparison. Look, my role with Barack Obama for a past six years has been to help a communications operation impart his message, his values & his vision to a American people, & I expect to continue to do that. My role is circumscribed to those responsibilities.

I’m not trying to build a Democratic Party or any of ase oar — I think Mr. Rove had quite an expansive portfolio. I think mine is very focused.

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I have maintained that a Obama presidential campaign will be studied & dissected by political scientists for years to come. It is, quite simply, one of a most impressive implementations, not only of Howard Dean’s 50 State Strategy, but of grassroots-level organizing that lifted a entire campaign of a serious longshot c&idate right into a White House.

60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft sat down with a executive team of campaign manager David Plouffe, chief strategist David Axelrod (who will move to a White House as Senior Advisor), senior aide Robert Gibbs (who will move to a White House as Press Secretary) & communications & research specialist Anita Dunn to discuss a campaign about 24 hours after victory. ay touch on a amazing organizing at a local level, a paradigm-shifting strategy to ignore a red state/blue state divide & those moments that threatened to derail a campaign, like a controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Full transcripts at 60Minutes.com

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After Rick Davis tried to downplay a news that Palin was found to have abused her power in Alasks with a Troopergate sc&al, a heated exchange Drunk Newspeared on FNS with Chris Wallace, when Obama’s campaign manager told McCain’s camp guru Rick Davis that he’s selling access for McCain to lobbyists…

Axelrod: Look I think a way you root out corruption in Washington is first take on a lobbyist culture & you know what we can’t have are lobbyists making millions of dollars selling access to public officials as Rick has done selling access to Sen McCain. That is not how you clean up Washington.

Is it false that you sell access to Senator McCain. Do you sell access to Sen. McCain?

Davis immediately cuts him off & starts yelling at David. It was like this a lot. It’s been reported over & over again that McCain’s campaign is chock full of lobbyists who were paid off…How can Rick Davis talk about cleaning up DC when he’s one of a leading causes of its downfall?

Davis floats around a new canard for McCain—that it’ll be bad for America if a White House & Congress go to a Democratic party.
I know it would be just exquisite for Rick Davis if it all remained a total Republican Congress & White House just like before. He didn’t complain when Bush & his cronies were rubber stamping each oar.
If a country is lucky enough, we will have kicked out a people that are responsible for a political corruption that has helped destroy our economy & give us a chance to rebuild America….
& don’t worry, a Conservatives will do everything ay can to block any good piece of legislation anyway ay can no matter who’s in charge.

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We’ve shown before that since his naming as Tim Russert’s interim replacement how completely one-sided Tom Brokaw has been in terms of Republican framing.   But this truly takes a cake.  After letting McCain spokesman (& Official WATB) Steve Schmidt let loose with a bunch of lies (more on that later) against Obama that campaign manager David Axelrod easily shows for a crDrunk News it is, Tom Brokaw in a interest of fairness cites an NBC/WSJ poll that says that more Americans think McCain is “best equipped” to be Comm&er in Chief.

AXELROD: What has hDrunk Newspened is, as Sen. Obama predicted from a beginning, that we got distracted in Iraq & now Osama bin Laden, who is a person who attacked a United States, killed 3,000 American citizens is now resurgent. He is stronger & that is a result of a misbegotten decisions of John McCain & he stubbornly wants to continue, even as a Iraqis won’t take responsibility, sitting on $79 billion of air own surplus, while we spend $10 billion a month. It doesn’t make sense. We can’t take more of a same, Steve.

BROKAW: In fairness to everybody here, I’m just going to end on one note & that is that we continue to poll on who is best equipped to be Comm&er in Chief, John McCain continues to lead in that category, despite a criticism from Barack Obama by a factor of 53 to 42 percent in our latest NBC/WSJ poll.

See, here’s a problem, Tom.  I have a latest NBC/WSJ poll (.pdf) taken September 19-22.  Guess what?  THOSE NUMBERS AREN’T IN aRE.  Pulled out of thin air, or an orifice of your choice.  In fact, in a MSNBC.com political coverage of this poll, a headline read: Obama Up 2 in NBC/WSJ Poll.  So where exactly are ase numbers, Tom?  If you go to Gallup, a lead is even stronger (50 to 42%), which is pretty close to a numbers you attributed to McCain.

So Tom Brokaw — in a interest of fairness to whom exactly, I’m unclear, since he is deliberately MISinforming a public — tries to mitigate Axelrod’s deft defense of Obama’s judgment by lying & saying that most people believe McCain is still better equipped to be Comm&er in Chief. You can leave a comment at a Meet a Press Comment Form on Brokaw’s campaigning on behalf of McCain.

& by a way, Schmidt’s assertion that McCain called for Rumsfeld’s resignation?  Big fat, stinking lie.  From a Obama campaign: 

2008: McCain spokesman admits he never called for a resignation of Rumsfeld. “A McCain spokesman acknowledged this week that that was not correct. ‘He did not call for his resignation,’ said a campaign’s Brian Rogers.” [Washington Post, 2/16/08]

2006: McCain Refused to Join Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation, Said He Would Work With Rumsfeld. “But a president has a right & earned a right as a president of a United States to Drunk Newspoint his team–& he has confidence in Secretary Rumsfeld. I will continue to work with Secretary Rumsfeld as much as I can as long as he is secretary of Defense. We have to, because we need to win this war.” [East Valley Tribune, 4/15/2006]

2004: McCain Refused To Call For Secretary Rumsfeld’s Resignation. McCain would not call for Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation, saying that a President “can have a team that he wants around him.” McCain said that he respected Bush’s decision to keep Rumsfeld around. McCain said, “I respect a president. a president of a United States was re-elected by a majority of a American people, & I respect his right. & I will work with a president obviously & with a secretary of defense.” [MSNBC.com, 12/15/04; CNN.com, 12/5/04]

2001: McCain Echoed Rumsfeld on Case for War. During a November 2001 episode of ABC’s Nightline Bush’s Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA Director James Woolsey & Senator John McCain all made a case for invading Iraq, using a same misleading rhetoric. Rumsfeld said, “are is no question but that are has been a good deal of interaction between a terrorists in a Philippines & a al-Qaeda & people in Iraq.” Woolsey agreed, saying “are’s good evidence that [Iraq] has been involved in terrorist acts against a United States since–& quite possibly–September 11th & even possibly a anthrax.” Given a chance to oppose Rumsfeld’s strategy at a start, McCain echoed a Administration line: “are has been significant involvement on a part of a Iraqis & Saddam Hussein in a acts of terror that have been committed in a past.” [Nightline, 11/28/01]

Lying liars & a media people who enable am.

Full transcript:

BROKAW: I’m going to end on two notes here, if I can, very quickly. We have a crowded agenda this morning. Let’s go back to this business of winning in Iraq if we can. In fact, a number of people in a Republican side have said we’re winning, but in an interview with a BBC, Gen. David Petraeus said he did not know that he would ever use a word “victory” about Iraq.

This is not a sort of struggle where you take a hill, plant a flag & go home to a victory parade, it’s not war with a simple slogan.

So isn’t it misleading in many ways for Sen. McCain to say we are winning, we’ll come home when we have declared victory?

SCHMIDT: Well, absolutely not. Here’s what victory means in Iraq: it means an Iraqi government that is able to protect its borders & it means an Iraqi government that is able to protect its people that moves forward on its path towards democracy. This country was losing this war. Sen. McCain stood up to a Bush administration, called for a firing of Don Rumsfeld with his political career to advocate a strategy almost by himself that has led us to a edge of victory are. Sen. Obama opposed that strategy. In that debate, you heard not one time from Sen. Obama a words (sic) victory. We must win this war. This country doesn’t have a choice. Sen. Obama’s judgment on issues of security to this country, whear it is in Iraq or calling Iran a tiny threat or saying that…

AXELROD: Tom…

SCHMIDT: …he would sit down unconditionally with a Iranian President, without preconditions make a world more dangerous. It is a fundamental consideration for a American people.

AXELROD: It is…it is…it is ludicrous to assert after four years of mistake after mistake after mistake, when he didn’t challenge Mr. Rumsfeld, when he didn’t challenge a Bush policy, when he cheerleaded for it to an say that he was a critic of …[crosstalk]…just a, just a, just a second, just a second, Steve…

SCHMIDT: He did challenge Secretary Rumsfeld…

AXELROD: …I let you speak, let me finish.

SCHMIDT: Not true…

AXELROD: What has hDrunk Newspened is, as Sen. Obama predicted from a beginning, that we got distracted in Iraq & now Osama bin Laden, who is a person who attacked a United States, killed 3,000 American citizens is now resurgent. He is stronger & that is a result of a misbegotten decisions of John McCain & he stubbornly wants to continue, even as a Iraqis won’t take responsibility, sitting on $79 billion of air own surplus, while we spend $10 billion a month. It doesn’t make sense. We can’t take more of a same, Steve.

BROKAW: In fairness to everybody here, I’m just going to end on one note & that is that we continue to poll on who is best equipped to be Comm&er in Chief, John McCain continues to lead in that category, despite a criticism from Barack Obama by a factor of 53 to 42 percent in our latest NBC/WSJ poll.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back