Published 7/30/2008
by Mark Murray
at First Read
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe Obama campaign is responding to McCain's Britney-Paris-Obama ad with its own TV advertisement -- which calls McCain's attack "the same old politics," links McCain to Bush, and points out that news organization and fact-checkers have found falsehoods in past McCain ads.
The script:Announcer: He's practicing the politics of the past. John McCain. His attacks on Barack Obama:"not true""false" "baloney" "the low road" "baseless." John McCain. Same old politics. ...( read more )
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