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John McCain wants Steve Capus' head on a pike.

Steve Capus, the president of NCB News, received a letter from McCain's campaign manager Ric Davis protesting NBC's overtly favorable coverage of Barack H. Obama. Finally, the campaign protests! Have they not noticed this before I wonder?

The latest dig at John McCain: Andrea Mitchell, on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, inferred that John McCain must have listened in on questions given by Pastor Rick Warren to Barack H. Obama during Saturday night's Faith Forum.

For some reason, Barack Obama didn't do so well in that forum. Hesitating, stuttering, answering "not in my pay grade" a question on when life begins (Barack dodges and slithers as well as any Chicago politician ever has when it comes to...faith.)

McCain did so well that Andrea Mitchell wonders if he had heard the questions to BHO. Was he eavesdropping, not in his 'cone of silence'?

Could it be, Mrs. Mitchell, that John McCain is a better man of faith than 'your' candidate? After all, there probably weren't so many questions on Black Liberation Theology. And abortion, one of the 'holy grail' issues of the Democratic platform, needs to distance itself from difficult questions like 'When does life begin?' 'At what point does the baby get human rights?'

Oh, Baracky's answer: "That's not in my pay grade".

John McCain's answer? "At conception."

Pretty much clear-cut.

Barack: Cut the baby. Babies are subject to the mother's decision up to (and after?) birth.

McCain: Save the baby. Babies are children. Or will be, if you let them live long enough.

The Abortion issue is one of the Democrat's weaknesses (along with foreign policy, national defense, identity politics &c. We of any faith should point out this weakness every chance we get.

For the children!

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Oh, here's the letter to the Democratic promotion -- propaganda machine at NBC...

Mr. Steve Capus
President, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Steve:

We are extremely disappointed to see that the level of objectivity at NBC News has fallen so low that reporters are now giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims in order to undercut John McCain.

Nowhere was this more evident than with NBC chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell's comments on "Meet the Press" this morning. In analyzing last night's presidential forum at Saddleback Church, Mitchell expressed the Obama campaign spin that John McCain could only have done so well last night because he "may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama." Here are Andrea Mitchell's comments in full:

Mitchell: "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama. He seemed so well-prepared." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 8/17/08)

Make no mistake: This is a serious charge. Andrea Mitchell is repeating, uncritically, a completely unsubstantiated Obama campaign claim that John McCain somehow cheated in last night's forum at Saddleback Church. Instead of trying to substantiate this blatant falsehood in any way, Andrea Mitchell felt that she needed to repeat it on air to millions of "Meet the Press" viewers with no indication that 1.) There's not one shred of evidence that it's true; 2.) In his official correspondence to both campaigns, Pastor Rick Warren provided both candidates with information regarding the topic areas to be covered, which Barack Obama acknowledged during the forum when asked about Pastor Warren's idea of an emergency plan for orphans and Obama said, "I cheated a little bit. I actually looked at this idea ahead of time, and I think it is a great idea;" 3.) John McCain actually requested that he and Barack Obama do the forum together on stage at the same time, making these kinds of after-the-fact complaints moot.

Indeed, instead of taking a critical journalistic approach to this spin, Andrea Mitchell did what has become a pattern for her of simply repeating Obama campaign talking points.

This is irresponsible journalism and sadly, indicative of the level of objectivity we have witnessed at NBC News this election cycle. Instead of examining the Obama campaign's spin for truth before reporting it to more than 3 million NBC News viewers, Andrea Mitchell simply passed along Obama campaign conspiracy theories. The fact is that during Senator Obama's segment at Saddleback last night, Senator McCain was in a motorcade to the event and then held in a green room with no broadcast feed. In the forum, John McCain clearly demonstrated to the American people that he is prepared to be our next President.....

We are concerned that your News Division is following MSNBC's lead in abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race. We would like to request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss our deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC.

Sincerely,

Rick Davis
Campaign Manager
John McCain 2008

emboldenings mine -ed.

Now, we need about 20 more letters just like this to...ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT, etc.

And lots of pikes, no? ;D

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