David Axelrod to Rick Davis: 'You're selling lobbyists access to Senator McCain
By John Amato Sunday Oct 12, 2008 10:03am
After Rick Davis tried to downplay the news that Palin was found to have abused her power in Alasks with the Troopergate scandal, a heated exchange appeared 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 the way you root out corruption in Washington is first take on the lobbyist culture and 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 and starts yelling at David. It was like this a lot. It's been reported over and 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 the leading causes of its downfall?
Davis floats around a new canard for McCain---that it'll be bad for America if the White House and Congress go to the Democratic party.
I know it would be just exquisite for Rick Davis if it all remained a total Republican Congress and White House just like before. He didn't complain when Bush and his cronies were rubber stamping each other.
If the country is lucky enough, we will have kicked out the people that are responsible for the political corruption that has helped destroy our economy and give us a chance to rebuild America....
And don't worry, the Conservatives will do everything they can to block any good piece of legislation anyway they can no matter who's in charge.
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why does anyone go in the fox shithole
Is Rick Davis the most smarmy, unlikable person on the circuit? Seriously, the guy had the personality of a footstool.
Davis is a disgusting person who is the worst example of a political advisor. Obviously he knows his campaign is cracking and about to sink. For him, it really doesn't matter if he treats people like crap because his career is over.
footstool = a piece of shit 12" long
He is a footstool indeed...
But you gotta give C&L credit.. the light blue background the videos play on now, is much softer on the eyes.
To a lot of middle of the road people (undecideds) the argument that it could be bad to have both the executive and the legislative branches of government in the same party's hands is quite reasonable.(generally speaking of course)
I'm surprised the PALIN/mccain campaign hasn't been banging this drum from the start.
Is Rick Davis gay,inquirering minds want to know?
Ah yes, the target of Doonesbury, the great lobbyist machine headed by Rick Davis.
Davis is clearly living in another world when he states that Democrats have had trouble facing the "challenges" over the past two years.....and who was responsible for these "challenges"?
Yes, Americans know who was responsible and that is why Obama likely already has his 270 electoral votes in the bank. Better luck next time putz.
Instead of the argument that one-party rule would be bad, why don't we look at the fact that McCain does things 'his own way', and will veto pretty much everything that comes to his desk, furthering this stalemate and bringing the progress of government to even more of a halt.
This is going to be a very progressive, go-get-em Congress with Obama as President. With McCain, you'll see obstruction x100, and they'll blame (yet again) the Democrats for 'doing nothing', just as the Congressional Republicans have - shockingly! - been so successful at filibustring the shit out of this session (with no media play, yet again)
In my opinion, Axlerod wasn't able to make a single statement without Davis interrupting him. If Fox has to have this asshat on, Wallace should be able to tell Davis to STFU for a minute.
It's ok. David did right by drowning Davis out so neither could be heard. It's a tie, and the tie always goes to Obama. :)
Not on Fox News it doesn't, where the average viewer is convinced Obama is a secret muslim communist terrorist.
On Fox News, its never a tie. RNC talking points always win.
That he may have done, but it is obvious that Davis's mic volume was much higher than Axelrod's mic.
Bobby:
Don't count on it.
Hey, that was great of Wallace to give Axelrod the last word! I don't know how Axelrod kept his cool.
This is going to be the big talking point at the last debate:
It's all the Democrats fault! Bwaaaaaaaa..... McGrumpy is going to call for a Special Prosecutor to be appointed to investigate why Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and the Dems caused the financial meltdown.
That guy just cannot open his mouth without lying. "I didn't interrupt you." Lie. "Character assassination has become the hallmark of the Obama campaign." Lie. "Sarah Palin was cleared of all wrongdoing." Lie. I think just about every sentence was a lie.
Oh, anyone want to hear more from him? In the same interview with Wallace the Lesser, he says Obama owes McCain an apology, and even invokes POW one more time.
Oh, anyone want to hear more from him?
Noooooooo!!!!
Holding his hands over his ears and shouting LA LA LA LA LA LA I Can't Hear You LA LA LA LA LA LA
Bangkok Bob,
It's more like the kid in the play yard shouting, "No, you are!" His entire strategy appears to be to tell a lie, and then, when called on it, to say, "No, Obama is the liar." Or, to sling mud, and then, when called on it, to say, "No, Obama is slinging mud."
Yeah, way to not interrupt there Rick.
Somebody needs to kick the shit out of that little asshole.
Ohio Poll of polls: McCain gains ground in tight race
Posted: 12:40 PM ET
CNN's new Ohio poll of polls shows Barack Obama leading McCain by three points, 49 to 46 percent....
The network’s last Ohio poll of polls, released October 9, showed Obama leading McCain by four points, 50 to 46 percent. In the September 21 poll of polls, Obama led McCain by a single point, 47 to 46 percent.
A drop of 1% warrants a headline "McCain gains ground.."? The press are bending over backwards to throw mccain a bone whenever they can.
first of all, i've heard rick davis speak regarding his campaign. the guy is a dick. he's a cut throat lobbyist,it's
in his blood. regarding the inquiry on Palin,she obviously couldn't keep her personal life out of her professional life. this investigation was active before she was considered the (R) candidate for vice president.
it was a republican majority that requested the investigation. why not have a media question and answer session with Palin regarding this issue? Palin remains behind the many shields provided by the RNC. rick davis
is just providing more shield and deception for himself and his campaign.
Pedophile is a better word.
Is the name calling necessary? What reaction did you have to the kinds of things being yelled out at McCain and Palin rallies? Whether you are serious or joking, this is a serious allegation.
Alledged pedophile? Is that better?
Did anyone notice how the weasle just sat there with a silly little grin on his face?
The ancient Greeks used to execute anyone engaging in public discourse that was intentionally misleading. Drink up, davis.
Wow..
That would put some real value on the task of telling the Truth..
Any truth to the rumor Davis is Rick Mehlmans girlfriend?
strong on 'family values' and upholding the puritan way through all adversity...
damning every tree hugging hippy and long haired thinker to hell and back.
IOKIYAR
most likely
which one
I'm as big a Obama supporter as you're going to find, but Axelrod didn't come across well in that exchange.
He let himself be talked over, he looked directly into the camera(while Davis was at a slight profile, giving him better eye value), and he basically allowed himself to be bullied.
Granted, Davis is the bully: but Axelrod looked weak, and America HATES weak. We need to do better: especially since the facts are on our side.
so of course he looked into the camera
when you are not in studio, it is difficult to take control when someone speaks over you....call into a wingnut radio show sometime...you will understand
davis is a liar
so if you are strong but lie....america wants that????
Well He made up for it in the last minute! That accusation and the willingness to persue it was the ROAR of a LION! He talks softly and carries a BIG stick. Did you see Wallace's face when he made that accusation?!! He was like "uh, oh, I can't believe he went there. Notice how he starts looking Davis up and down! David Axelrod was DA MAN! Go David!
Well He made up for it in the last minute! That accusation and the willingness to persue it was the ROAR of a LION! He talks softly and carries a BIG stick. Did you see Wallace's face when he made that accusation?!! He was like "uh, oh, I can't believe he went there. Notice how he starts looking Davis up and down! David Axelrod was DA MAN! Go David!
Davis comes off looking angry and unhinged, not a good face for what the McCain campaign needs right now. I thought Bill Kristol's later analysis was spot on - the McCain campaign needs MCCAIN on these shows, not some angry lobbyist. I hope they keep this strategy up!
but a well paid angry subprime meltdown Republican lobbyist.
You know you're in deep doo when "The Democrats will control everything!" is the best argument you can muster on behalf of your candidate.
It's over and they know it. You can almost smell Davis' fear through the screen.
This highly nuanced point argued by two apologists for the two parties is beyond the interest or analytical ability of most voters. McCain is living proof of what goes around, comes around and it couldn't happen to a more duplicitous tool. He's about to be tossed into the dustbin of hapless, ego-driven, mean-spirited hand puppets. See ya, Maverick!
If progressives are serious about winning victories that can realign our politics, they must find a way to marry the legitimate criticism of the decadence of popular culture with criticism of the decadence of an economic system that create the savage inequalities we see in America today. Once that is done, the entire project of the right collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.
case closed
David is on my happy holiday card list.
birds of a feather etc
P'Rick Davis Involvement with Oleg Deripaska
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In 2006, Davis helped set up the encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in Switzerland during an international economic conference. Deripaska's suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his entry visa in 2006.[17]
At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking to do business with the billionaire. Later that month, Deripaska wrote to Davis and his partner, political consultant Paul J. Manafort, to thank them for arranging the meeting. "Thank you so much for setting up everything in Klosters so spectacularly," he wrote. "It was very interesting to meet Senators McCain, Chambliss and Sununu in such an intimate setting. ENDQUOTE
he lied from word one
and thanks wallace for making sure that davis wouldnt talk over axelrod
unbelievable
btw, alaskans are pretty pissed at palin over the termination of monegan
I truly understand that Crooks and Liars is unabashedly pro-Obama. But it would be helpful to demonstrate at least the pretense of objectivity. While justifiably pointing out McCain's ties to lobbyists, there is absolutely not one word concerning how heavily Obama is connected to these same organizations. As independent journalist and film maker John Pilger recently observed in an article:
"Despite claiming that his campaitgn wealth comes from small individual donors, Obama is backed by the biggest Wall Street firms: Goldman Sachs [which was Obama's number one donor and whose former CEO happened to be a fellow named Henry Paulson], UBS AG, Lehman Brothers, J P Morgan chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, as well as the huge hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. 'Seven of the Obama campaign's top 14 donors,' wrote the investigator Pam Martens, 'consisted of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and time again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages.' A report by United for a Fair Economy, a non-profit group, estimates the total loss to poor Americans of colour who took out sub-prime loans as being between $164 bn. and $213 bn.: the greatest loss of wealth ever recorded for people of colour in the United States. "Washington lobbyists haven't funded my campaign," said Obama in January, "they won't ruin my White House and they will not drown out the voices of working Americans when I am president." According to the files held by the Centre for Responsible Politics, the top five contributors to the Obama campaign are registered corporate lobbyists."
This article by Pilger clearly indicates that Obama's hands are just as corrupt as those of his Republican rival. Agent of change? Agent of the status quo would seem to be a more apt description of the Democratic candidate.
does come from small individual donors...that is a fact....look it up
does he get support from financial institutions...sure
but he doesnt have current lobbyists running his campaign
nice try troll boy
but davis was getting 15k per month from fannie up until august of this year
and there you go again...trying to blame the poor and minorities for the economic collapse
you people have no shame in your unabashed hatred for america
"Troll boy" Where did you get that pejorative and puerile term, from the Joe McCarthy school of fear mongering? What you did not do [because in all probability you can not] is dispute what Pilger and the Centre for Responsive Politics have stated which, again, is that "the top five contributors to the Obama campaign are registered lobbyists." This quote follows Obama's claim that "Washington lobbyists haven't funded my campaign."
You also did a fine job of again distorting what I wrote, or rather what John Pilger said, concerning the poor and working class in this country. Pilger never "blame[d] the poor and minorities for the economic collapse." If you read what I had written very slowly and very carefully, you will discover that Pam Martens is placing the blame on those "Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages" which clearly indicates [or to at least most people it should] that the fault of poor people losing their homes does not, as you bizarrely assert, lie with minority groups but rather, as Ms. Martens makes clear, with those predatory agencies that preyed on those people.
It has become obvious that one is at great peril if one dares to criticize the great Obama because to do so one runs the risk, as Uncle Joe McCarthy writes, of "unabashed hatred for America" in spite of whatever evidence that one may present to prove and defend one's assertions. Like his namesake, Uncle Joe engages in whipping up animosity for anyone who points out Obama's ties to financial institutions. I prefer to be more objective to whom I cast my allegiance such as Ralph Nader, who accepts no money or donations from the corporate sector. If only Barack Obama could make that same claim.
Here we go back to 92...
sigh..
Were minorities getting million dollar loans or 50 dollar loans? A report is out today that the problem was not with federal loans but the vast majority of the problem was with private loans, 85% as a matter of fact.
I like the way the right will cut and paste an article that agrees with their warped ideas and act as if it is the gospel. When the final audit is released, John McSame, Ronald Reagan, Phil Gramm, George Bush, Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and all the deregulators will be recorded in history as the main culprits in the melt down of this economy. Nice try Sparky.
according to the wingnuts, the minority dems controlled congress during bush's first 7 years
we have passed through the looking glass
tweedledum is running the country
Ah, Erroll the Objective, our paid Republican operative is back. He has to go all the way to the U.K. by means of an Aussie filmmaker to uncover the "goods" on his nemesis, Barack Obama. You are aware the Pilger also thinks Bush and Blair are war criminals and is a big supporter of Chavez?
That fact that political campaigns in this country cost an obscene amount of money to run and forces candidates to receive money from all sorts of sources is not Obama's fault.
The Republicans have controlled Congress for the last 14 years, except for the last 20 months. They have controlled the WH for the last 8 years. They have populated every government department with Republican idealogues. Everything that have touched has become a total disaster. It is time for them to go. It's only fair the Dems be given a chance now to sort out the damage done. You believe in fairness, don't you?
Just like the commenter named Uncle Joe McCarthy, theWalrus also believes that if anyone dares to criticize that [alleged] populist, Barack Obama, then he or she must be a "paid Republican operative." As proof of his assertion, he says that "You are aware that Bush and Blair are war criminals and is a big supporter of Chavez?" One would logically assume that if someone is irate because Bush and Blair are accused of being war criminals, then that someone must certainly be a neoconservative. Does theWalurs believe, as an alleged liberal, that Bush and his former poodle Blair should not be placed in the dock for causing the deaths of upward of 1.2 million Iraqis, in addition to 2 million of them being displaced from their homes and 2 million more of them having fled to other countries in order not to have 500 lb. and 2000 lb. American bombs rained down upon them? I am unsure why Chavez warrants such hostility unless it is because this commenter is against the citizens of Venezuela had elected him to office democratically [and whose elections, unlike that of the United States, were verified by representatives of the United Nations] and who sells oil to the poor at discount prices.
He tries to justify Obama taking "obscene amount[s] of money" from major corporations while conveniently ignoring why that should not be seen as a quid pro quo arrangement, especially coming from someone who advertises himself as an agent of change as well as an alleged populist. One wonders if TheWalrus seriously believes that Obama would be receiving these donations from Big Business if they did not expect some reimbursement from the [alleged] agent of change.
He asserts that "the Republicans have controlled Congress for the last 14 years" while ignoring the fact that the Democrats were swept into office on a mandate to end the war in 2006 and have refused to heed the will of the people by continually voting to fund the obscene occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq [such as Barack Obama]. He ignores the fact that 170 Democrats, including Barack Obama, again ignored the will of the people by voting to bail out Wall Street instead of helping Main Street. He ignores the fact that Obama voted for the FISA bill which would mean unfettered spying upon the American people. Yet he complains that "the Dems be given a chance now to sort out the damage done." He then follows this up by asking: "You believe in fairness, don't you." He may wish to try point out that legitimate question to Obama who showed where his true interests lie when he stepped on the backs of the poor and working class in this country by voting to help out the financial institutions instead of providing any relief to the downtrodden. That is the right thing to do, is it not? He may wish to ask the Iraqi and Afghan people if it is fair for Obama and the Democrats to continually vote to keep the occupations going, especially since, as Congressman Kucinich has attempted to point out, apparently to no avail, that there is already enough money in the pipeline to provide for the welfare of the troops. Or do their concerns not matter because they are not American? I suggest when you speak of fairness, you ask yourself why it is that the Democrats, who are supposed to believe in equal opportunity and equal rights, have not complained quite vociferously because third party and independent and socialist candidates have been conveniently excluded from these presidential debates, debates that have been controlled by former heads of the Democratic and Republican parties. In all likelihood, that fairness only extends as far as making surer that the only candidates the American people will ever see on a national stage are those that belong to the Democratic and Republican parties. One wonders if this criticism will once again be construed as being from a "paid Republican operative." It seems that nothing much has changed in the past 60 odd years since in the past one would have been accused of being a "paid Communist operative" in order tho make sure that any criticism of an individual would be ameliorated if not entirely eradicated by accusing that person of being a communist. Only now it appears the pejorative term used today is "paid Republican operative."
Mentally ill crazy is contagious in the Krusty campaign. Rabies vaccines for the house.
It's time to "out" the McCain cavalcade of corrupt lobbyists beginning with his head honcho Rick Davis.
Yes, the Rick Davis who stole $15,000 from Freddie Mac right up until the Feds took it over.
This is the same Rick Davis of the coup in Montenegro. Just google it and you can find out how Rick Davis helped rig the faux election, too. It's all there - time for this legitimate "dirt" to be brought out to the american people.
That is what I am talking about.
Ban lobbyist access or there will be no change.
Just business as usual.
This is the bump Pallin needs to qualify as a republican candidate- being found guilty of ethics violations.
But C&L does not.2 Term limits will fix the problem. Lobbists will have to re--educate the new greenhorns every 8 years--that will put a damper on their trade.
Wow, I'd never seen this Rick Davis guy speak before, since I don't watch much TV news. He's even more of a complete ass than I pictured.
Davis is polished pro as he is an A-hole at drowning out another speaker. Look at his body language and he was just shouting words to block what Axelrod was saying.
My God, what a waste of 16 months of my life!
Three minutes of uninterrupted lies from the Republican shill, followed by 10 seconds of commentary from his opposition, and then 2 minutes of the Republican shill being *allowed* to talk over his opposition.
That's Fox News for you.
I posted about this way back when it was reported and have been completely baffled that it has not been brought up consistently.
Mr. Davis' law firm was getting payments from Freddie Mac through August for doing.... what? If not access to John McCain, then what?
We were never given an answer. The day this story broke is the day McCain suspended his campaign, and afterwards the incurious press chose not to even ask the question.
Considering that McCain has made pre-emptive attacks, suggesting that Obama was in the pocket of Freddie mac and Fannie Mae, why have the Dems been waiting til now to be raising this point? I suspect the reason McCain made the charge in the first place is that he expected this to be brought up, and wanted to make it a he said/she said issue.
For a refresher course:
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/09/j...
Okay David you close.. Nice mediating there Chris! Do you do lynchings too?
Davis is a master of desperation. Notice how quickly he flips the victim card. Classic bully. I bet he'd be proud to be called a bully. I bet he wouldn't be so quick to refute it.
SO?
Could you please put these videos on youtube, or at least host flash versions on this site. The quality of these videos now is terrible.
chrissy wallass is such a wussy! If he had any balls, he would have shut david up while Mr. Axelrod was talking. Instead he sat there with a smarmy smirk on his face. I would love to bitchslap him to kingdom come.
I'll bet Mike cringes every time he sees what an asshole he sired.
Let me rephrase that:
...our delusional, crazy paid Republican operative is back...
davis was/is such a total jerk. in these situations dems need only to invoke limbaugh, suggesting that davis is channeling limbaugh. everyone will know. limbaugh is the GOP , the GOP is limbaugh.
you have to hand it to axelrod. the guy is brilliant. instead of defending the attacks of rick davis, axelrod went into attack, got his point in and put davis on the defense. previous davis misstatements forgotten. what is left is the notion that davis sold access to mccain. excellent!
Rick Davis needs t.o fact checked. It wasn't a partisan investigation of Palin, and she's still in trouble. Notice he does exactly what Palin does? Talks just to make sound continue to come out. What a lying douchebag.
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