HBO's Game Change: Watching MSNBC Makes McCain 'More Miserable'

Brent Baker | March 13, 2012
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McCain-Palin senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, played by Woody Harrelson, in  HBO’s Game Change movie first aired on Saturday night, March 10. Schmidt, in a scene at a hotel bar in Phoenix on election eve:

“He’s [McCain] the most depressed I’ve seen him in the entire campaign. I can’t get him to stop watching MSNBC, which only makes him more miserable.”

The two other men in the scene: Campaign manager Rick Davis and senior adviser/speechwriter Mark Salter.

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