Journalists First Debunk Republican Attack on Obama, and Now Debunk Attack on Kerry

Published: August 14, 2007, 9:36 pm

Tags: john kerry, blogosphere, iraq, news media, barack obama, john mccain

Duck if you don’t want to be hit by the flying pigs today. Has the resignation of Karl Rove suddenly returned political coverage to reality? First we had AP debunk the right wing smears on Barack Obama. Now The Swamp reports on how John McCain attacked John Kerry by misquoting Kerry’s position on the war. Maybe the media has really learned that reporting the news does not meaning repeating every untrue statement from the right without fact checking. After quoting an interview with John McCain they write: McCain was talking of course about Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.,) the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. If you give McCain the benefit of the doubt, he misremembered Kerry’s position. If you’re more cynical, he intentionally misstated Kerry’s position to make his own support of Bush more palatable. Either way, it was odd coming in an interview where McCain sought to align himself on the side of character. From there they quote John Kerry’s actual

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