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Title: John Mccain-Sarah Palin lie about crowd size at rallies View count: 20584 Rating: 4.727941 (136 ratings) Description: Of all the newly revealed McCain camp lies, I think I love best the fact, as reported by Bloomberg, that they are evidently fibbing about crowd sizes at McCain-Palin rallies. I love it both because its so desperate—like inflating a movies box office—but also because the irony of the strategy here is so palpable: 1) Slam the Obama campaign for being a cult of celebrity. 2) Try to create your own celebrity. 3) Fail. 4) Lie. Unlike the growing heaps of fabrications about Gov. Palins record—the bridge to nowhere; the earmarks; the trip to Iraq that never was; the trip to Ireland (plain or unleaded?)—we can actually attack the fake crowd stats without attacking Palin herself. The McCain camp has been chuffing ahead with all the lies, confident that they can make up whatever they want about Palins experience, and then attack anyone who questions that pretend experience as a raving sexist. Classic smoke bomb. But you can ask about fake crowds without being accused of assailing the Porcelain Pit Bull, right? Stay tuned. http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/14/those-mythical-mobs.aspx The Lies And Deceit Of John McCain A great column by Ruth Marcus, rebutting the insane notion that there is any serious equivalence between the venial campaign sins of Barack Obama and the massive moral sins of John McCain: McCain's transgressions, though, are of a different magnitude. His whoppers are bigger; there are more of them. He -- the easy out would be to say "his campaign" -- has been misleading, and at times has outright lied, about his opponent. He has misrepresented -- that's the charitable verb -- his vice presidential nominee's record. Called on these fouls, he has denied and repeated them... Are there any corners left for McCain? Is there any reason to trust that a man running this campaign would go on to be an honest president? No, he wouldn't. He's a fantastic and shameless liar. We all make mistakes and in a heated campaign, some fibs and lies will emerge. But the mark of a morally serious person is not their occasional failures, but their response to them. Does he correct and apologize? Does he ultimately care about the truth, about reality? Or does he refuse to acknowledge his lies and keep repeating them, even after they have been proven beyond the slightest doubt? McCain has failed the most basic of ethical tests. He is morally and ethically unfit to be the president of the United States. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-lies-and-de.html Tags: rachel, maddow, karl, rove, barack, obama, sarah, palin, lie, john, mccain, joe, biden, economy, speech, interview, debate, energy, oil, Author: AntiConformist911 |
