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The technique of airing longer-than-usual one-on-one interview segments with the network anchors during the nightly newscasts has always been a hallmark of the waning days of a Presidential election campaign: so ABC gave six minutes to Charles Gibson and John McCain and NBC gave four minutes (in addition to Thursday's five minutes) to Brian Williams and Barack Obama.
It is a problem to let these interviews stand alone without accompanying reportage when the candidates say things that just do not make sense. McCain showed us a couple of cases in point. To illustrate his accusation that the motive for Obama's tax proposals is not to raise revenue but to redistribute wealth, McCain said this: "The fact is that 50% of small business income in America--you can check it--would be under his tax plan and would be taxed." This means that the other 50% of small business income would be tax-free. Does that make sense?
Then Gibson asked McCain what he would be glad to stop doing after Election Day: "Frankly, probably, ask for money. You know that is what I am not very good at. I am good at asking for votes, support, volunteers. I have just never been really good at asking for money." But is it not true that a key differences between McCain and Obama this fall has been that McCain is funded from the federal finance system. Does that not prohibit him from soliciting? Surely Obama is the one asking for money; McCain is the one free of it? Does this make sense?
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