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TPM Election Central: WaPo's Howard Kurtz: New McCain Ad Contains "Whopper"
Riehl World View: How Can Obama "Change" The Race?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Howie Kurtz: "Whopper" to say Palin opposed Bridge to Nowhere
DownWithTyranny!: Does Your Truth Ever Feel Weak And Unimportant?
Think Progress: Fox’s Campaign Carl Claims ‘You Can’t Dispute’ That Palin Was ‘Against’ The Bridge To Nowhere
WaPo's Howard Kurtz: New McCain Ad Contains "Whopper"
TPM Election Central —
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz gets it right on the new McCain ad's repetition of the Palin-blocked-Bridge-to-Nowhere falsehood:
The Arizona senator has made a crusade of battling pork-barrel "earmarks," but the whopper here is that Palin opposed her state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere. She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures. Far from being an opponent of ...
How Can Obama "Change" The Race?
Riehl World View —
... So, what's left? If you were a member of Team Obama right now, what would you do to try and gain back the momentum currently pouring out from what looks like a decidedly leaky campaign to John McCain? ...
Howie Kurtz: "Whopper" to say Palin opposed Bridge to Nowhere
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Washington Post/CNN media critic, Howie Kurtz, discusses the latest Palin-McCain ad's claim that Palin opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (she didn't): ...
Howie Kurtz: McCain "trying to steal the 'change' mantra" from Obama
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From Washington Post/CNN media critic, Howie Kurtz: McCain, with the addition of a rookie governor, is no longer running as the candidate of experience. Instead, he is trying to steal the "change" mantra from his Democratic rival, Barack Obama...
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Does Your Truth Ever Feel Weak And Unimportant?
DownWithTyranny! —
... persuade Congress to come up with the money. But that crazy Palin and her family! I think folks sympathize with her because they feel like they know them-- from every Jerry Springer Show they've ever watched. I don't know if Keven is on the up and up or not, but... I guess we'll find out in seven months. UPDATE: EVEN FOX CAN'T ABIDE THE PALIN LIES OK, Decay's family doesn't read socialist media like the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, or Newsweek, but... he said they believe Fox. ...
Fox’s Campaign Carl Claims ‘You Can’t Dispute’ That Palin Was ‘Against’ The Bridge To Nowhere
Think Progress —
... that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin “stopped the Bridge to Nowhere.” The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz called the ad’s bridge claim a “ whopper ,” noting that “she endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006.” But Fox News political reporter Carl Cameron defended the ad’s claim. Though Cameron notes that Palin spoke “very favorably” of the project before becoming governor, he declared that “Palin can point to a number of things she did and said that made it clear that in the end she was against it.” “You can’t dispute that,” said Cameron: CAMERON: The Obama ...
pants on fire
skippy the bush kangaroo —
the new barack "to the future" obama ad actually implies mcmuffin and maggie o'connell are lying... in another sign of the coming apocalypse, howard kurtz agrees w/us, that mcmuffin is lying... ...
Meme Taking Hold?
Talking Points Memo —
... reformer from Alaska. But we seem to be witnessing the first stirrings of a backlash and a dawning realization that the 'Sarah Palin' we've heard so much about over the last few days is a fraud of truly comical dimensions.
The McCain camp has made her signature issue shutting down the Bridge to Nowhere. But as The New Republic put it today that's just "a naked lie." And pretty much the same thing has been written today in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the AP, the Wall Street Journal. ...
Obama on Olbermann was much worse than I'd originally thought.
Althouse —
... as the mavericky, pork-busting reformer from Alaska. But we seem to be witnessing the first stirrings of a backlash and a dawning realization that the 'Sarah Palin' we've heard so much about over the last few days is a fraud of truly comical dimensions. The McCain camp has made her signature issue shutting down the Bridge to Nowhere. But as The New Republic put it today that's just "a naked lie." And pretty much the same thing has been written today in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the AP, the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday even Fox's ...
Media and Obama Campaign To McCain - Palin: You’re Lying
Firedoglake —
... Now that even Howard Kurtz is describing Sarah Palin's falsehoods on the "bridge to nowhere" as a "whopper," the Obama campaign is finally calling a lie a lie. As Blue Texan noted earlier today, they're responding broadly to the McCain-Palin campaign's constant barrage of false statements with this ad. ...
McCain On The Defensive??? Make It So!
Open Left - Front Page —
... from Alaska. But we seem to be witnessing the first stirrings of a backlash and a dawning realization that the 'Sarah Palin' we've heard so much about over the last few days is a fraud of truly comical dimensions.
The McCain camp has made her signature issue shutting down the Bridge to Nowhere. But as The New Republic put it today that's just "a naked lie." And pretty much the same thing has been written today in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the AP, the Wall Street ...
Lies, damned lies, and Sarah Palin ("a fraud of truly comical dimensions")
The Reaction —
... stirrings of a backlash and a dawning realization that the "Sarah Palin" we've heard so much about over the last few days is a fraud of truly comical dimensions. The McCain camp has made her signature issue shutting down the Bridge to Nowhere. But as The New Republic put it today that's just "a naked lie." And pretty much the same thing has been written today in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the AP, the ...
