The Morning Roundup
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NBC's "The Today Show"
- In an interview McCain was asked why the North Carolina GOP isn't listening to his call to pull the Wright ads. McCain said they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party, which he mentioned as the Party of Lincoln several times. Asked whether the prolonged Democratic race was helping or hurting him, McCain responded, "I don't know. I'm running my own campaign and I can do nothing about it."
- Jeremiah Wright's interview with Bill Moyers: Quoting Wright as saying his publicly aired comments were snippets taken out of context in a manner "unfair, unjust, untrue," Andrea Mitchell noted, "At the very least all this is an unwelcome diversion for Obama's campaign."
Fox News' "Fox and Friends"
- Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace: "We got him," Wallace announced, referrging to Barack Obama. "After 772 days after Barack Obama originally promised to me face-to-face that he would come on 'Fox News Sunday,' you can't say he doesn't keep his promise. Seven hundred and seventy-two days later, yes, he's going to appear exclusively on 'Fox News Sunday' this week. And timing is everything ... obviously his campaign has hit something of a speed bump."
"The remarkable thing is not that we got him, but that it took us two years to get him," Wallace said.
ABC News' "Good Morning America"
- Cokie Roberts focused in on what she saw as a potentially damaging comment from the Jeremiah Wright interview, saying "[Wright] said Barack Obama 'spoke as a politician', the last thing Obama wants people to think of him as."
Juan Williams added, "He just keeps popping up...If he really was a Barack Obama supporter I think he would pull himself offstage at this point."
Video link here with more of the Moyers-Wright interview.
MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
- US News and World Report Editor and Publisher Mort Zuckerman: "The problem [for Barack Obama] is that his appeal is turning out to be much more limited within the Democratic Party than people were thinking about before," he said. "In particular, he is really not connecting with people without a graduate degree, people without a college education, working people, Catholics, gun-owners, church-goers. He basically lost virtually everyone of those constituencies by an average [margin] of 60 to 40 [percent]. That's a very, very big problem for the Democratic Party."
"The economy is still getting weaker and it should be a very, very strong issue for the Democrats," he said. "But if the personalities of the Democrats are such that they basically alienate big blocks of voters, the Republicans are going to have a serious chance."
NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"
(Greg Bobrinskoy contributed to the Morning Update.)
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