Liar, liar, McCain's on fire
Forget the hockey moms. The Republican presidential campaign is trying to win over America's vast hypocrite vote
Muhammad Cohen
guardian.co.uk,
Friday September 19 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his campaign are drawing criticism for not telling the truth. It's gotten so bad that the media, politicians, and Barack Obama have unleashed a new L-word – lie – to describe the state of the stump. Even George Bush's low-blow specialist Karl Rove, mentor to chief McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, declared the campaign has "gone too far".
Barack Obama and his camp are being called for their fibs as well, but McCain is catching more heat, and deservedly so. The McCain-Palin advertisments feature more lies and bigger lies than the Obama side. McCain and company persist in telling lies even after they've been called on them.
"Obama will raise your taxes" is true when McCain says it to his millionaire wife, but not to the 97% of Americans earning less than $250,000 a year.
"I told Congress 'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere," Palin continues to repeat, long after the record has been reviewed to show she initially supported the bridge and that Congress killed it before she did. Moreover, Alaska got those pork barrel funds anyway to finance other projects.
It's no surprise that the McCain campaign keeps telling lies. In the movie Animal House, one of the Delta fraternity pledges is entrusted to care for his big brother's Cadillac. After the fraternity boys ruin the car, one frat boy proposes hiding the wreck, reporting the car stolen, and letting his brother collect the insurance for a replacement. "Do you think it'll work?" the pledge asks.
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Muhammad Cohen
guardian.co.uk,
Friday September 19 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his campaign are drawing criticism for not telling the truth. It's gotten so bad that the media, politicians, and Barack Obama have unleashed a new L-word – lie – to describe the state of the stump. Even George Bush's low-blow specialist Karl Rove, mentor to chief McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, declared the campaign has "gone too far".
Barack Obama and his camp are being called for their fibs as well, but McCain is catching more heat, and deservedly so. The McCain-Palin advertisments feature more lies and bigger lies than the Obama side. McCain and company persist in telling lies even after they've been called on them.
"Obama will raise your taxes" is true when McCain says it to his millionaire wife, but not to the 97% of Americans earning less than $250,000 a year.
"I told Congress 'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere," Palin continues to repeat, long after the record has been reviewed to show she initially supported the bridge and that Congress killed it before she did. Moreover, Alaska got those pork barrel funds anyway to finance other projects.
It's no surprise that the McCain campaign keeps telling lies. In the movie Animal House, one of the Delta fraternity pledges is entrusted to care for his big brother's Cadillac. After the fraternity boys ruin the car, one frat boy proposes hiding the wreck, reporting the car stolen, and letting his brother collect the insurance for a replacement. "Do you think it'll work?" the pledge asks.
(Continued here.)
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