"I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I’m going to win it,” McCain told interim “Meet” moderator Tom Brokaw. “We’re going to do well in this campaign, my friend. We’re going to win it, and it’s going to be tight, and we’re going to be up late.”
Does that back up the article’s title that “McCain Guarantees Victory”?
I call bullshit on the supposed non-bias of the broadcast media…
I agree. Clearly the article is an attempt by the biased media to encourage Democrats and independent Obama supporters to sit this one out as a waste of their time.
(I really wish/hope you were being facetious, but I suspect that you actually think you’ve made a point.)
Isn’t “We’re going to win it” sort of guaranteeing victory? I mean, obviously, I don’t know what else he’d say. It would probably hurt the campaign if he went on Meet the Press and said, “You know Tom, we’re going to go down in flames. It’s going to be an Obama landslide. I mean, internal polls show us losing Utah, even. <chuckles> We’re pretty much fucked.”
See, that would be bad for him to say. It wouldn’t really fill his supporters with the kind of confidence you need going into the last campaign week.
But there is a difference between “i believe we are going to win” or “we are going to win” and “i guarantee we are going to win”. Everyone always says they are going to win, the guarantee is the issue.
I don’t see any bias here, but I do see shoddy journalism by attempting to further sensationalize a preposterous statement.
To guarantee a close race, fine but then “guarantee” a victory would be reckless or foolish if the word guarantee had any real meaning. Most of us wish that guarantees had some accountability, but we don’t really believe them
I think I just talked myself in agreeing with the OP.
I don’t see it as an issue. This is politics; he’s got to keep his workers, his supporters, and his voters at least minimally enthused. Now if he said, “I win, or double your contributions back!” that might be interesting.
Oh yeah, re the OP, I do not think the headline is inappropriate for McCain’s quote.
I haven’t been following the election coverage too closely, but this does smack of a conscious or subconscious effort to discredit McCain by making him seem unreasonable and foolish, when his actual statement was (apparently) quite reasonable.
Don’t forget people, McCain has Obama right where he wants him (up 10 points and flush with cash 8 days before the election.)
Clever strategy, John. Get Obama so over-confident that he goes on vacation next week and then BAM, bring out William Ayers and Joe the Plumber and watch Obama’s lead disappear.