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UPDATE: Obama and the Troops
Swampland —
This front-page account in the Washington Post is absolutely consistent with what I know, based on my reporting, about Obama's cancelled visit to Landstuhl. So how many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge?
McCain Campaigns for Big Oil, While Obama Prepares to Govern
Firedoglake —
... Obama, on the other hand, is running for the Presidency by preparing to govern the country, run its foreign policy and deal with Bush's economic mess. He's mostly ignoring McCain's insults, except to have his campaign issue statements setting the record straight -- and finally getting some help when the media does it's job. ...
Front page Washington Post: McCain is lying about Obama
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
In a front page story in today's Washington Post, the paper comes as close as they can to saying that John McCain is outright lying about Barack Obama in an attempt to smear him as unpatriotic. The Post story doesn't mention that NBC's Andrea Mitchell was there in Afghanistan with Obama, and she is a personal witness to the fact that McCain's message about Obama is an outright lie. But still, in journalism circles, reporters are loathe to accuse someone of lying (it's not clear why), so this article is stunning in how close it comes to doing just that about McCain. ...
Hugh Hewitt: Governing From Guilt, Not Greatness, And MSM's Fatal Attraction For Obama
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... on the "mature" understanding of America's many past sins, its enormous greed and grasping, its unfair use of vast quantities of resources and its need to respect world opinion and world institutions even when those opinions and institutions are at cross-purposes with American national interests. Is American greatness the engine of the world, or American guilt an explanation for it? Obama is rightly getting hammered for skipping a meeting with wounded American warriors in German -- the WaPo tries to give ...
McCain's backlash
Ben Smith's Blog —
The Post and the Times both exact a cost today for McCain's negative new turn, with the Post flatly contradicting his claims and the Times quoting another round of dissenting Republicans and chiding him on its editorial page.
This was always a built-in cost of turning negative and personal, and its one Republicans have long cheerfully absorbed. But McCain has long been the New York Times's favorite Republican -- the paper endorsed him in the primary, as its spokeswoman noted when he last complained -- and this represents a real shift in his political ...
Big News Orgs Start Declaring McCain's Troop Visit Attack False
TPM Election Central —
... Progress! Today's Washington Post comes through with a great front-page piece devoted entirely to debunking McCain's false attack on Obama's canceled troop visit. Here's a key excerpt from the piece, which is entitled, "McCain charge against Obama lacks evidence: ...
Pants on Fire
Matthew Yglesias —
... Washington Post: "For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true." ...
TIME: "How many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge?"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... This front-page account in the Washington Post is absolutely consistent with what I know, based on my reporting, about Obama's cancelled visit to Landstuhl. So how many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge? ...
He Cancelled -- That's All We Need to Know
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 [image] He Cancelled -- That's All We Need to Know [Charlotte Hays]"McCain's Charge against Obama Lacks Evidence" is the headline in today's Washington Post story on Obama's not visiting wounded soldiers in Germany. It is interesting reading: Obama's inconsistent reasons for not going are as lacking in supporting evidence as McCain's assertion. One thing is certain he did cancel the trip. We don't need any evidence of that and it is damning in and of itself. Whatever the rationale. If you had any doubt that this is a plant from the Obama campaign: ...
Keeping Track
Talking Points Memo —
... Now, I note that the Post, which has generally been in McCain's camp, has a front page story today that comes about as close as they feel able to confirming that McCain campaign and McCain personally have spent most of the last week peddling what they knew was a lie about Obama's called-off trip to the US military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And there's also this ...
McCain camp admits ad was false
Daily Kos —
... around to contradict McCain's story, the campaign is trying to stay on offense, blaming the press for the confusion: Um, Obama didn't snub the troops. This seems like an appropriate time to bust out this headline from ABC News' Jake Tapper again: New McCain Ad Bashes Obama for Not Visiting Troops Using Footage of Obama Visiting Troops Everything about the ad was wrong. As the Washington Post reported today in its top A-1 story today: For four days, Sen. John McCain and ...
Dirty Politics Works
TalkLeft —
... So John McCain is being bashed for his mendacious ad about Obama not visiting the troops because he could not bring cameras. Whoop dee doo. The problem is for three days that ad got run on free media. Dirty politics works and McCain has now shown who will go as far down in the gutter as it takes. ...
The Low-Road Express
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an extension of Bush’s two disastrous terms. If the way McCain is running his campaign these days is an ...
The return of truthiness
Brilliant at Breakfast —
With John McCain having been given a free pass by the media on everything from his anger management issue, his flip-flops (not honest changing of the mind in the face of new information, but blatant pandering), his seeming loss of control of his intellectual faculties, it's even more astounding that the press is starting to say "Enough" when he stoops so low as the impugn the loyalty to the country of his opponent. Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, in the Washington Post: For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama ...
The return of truthiness
The Latest on Air America —
With John McCain having been given a free pass by the media on everything from his anger management issue, his flip-flops (not honest changing of the mind in the face of new information, but blatant pandering), his seeming loss of control of his intellectual faculties, it's even more astounding that the press is starting to say "Enough" when he stoops so low as the impugn the loyalty to the country of his opponent.
Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, in the Washington Post:
For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of ...
An Old New Meme
Comments from Left Field —
... Now, I note that the Post, which has generally been in McCain’s camp, has a front page story today that comes about as close as they feel able to confirming that McCain campaign and McCain personally have spent most of the last week peddling what they knew was a lie about Obama’s called-off trip to the US military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And there’s also this ...
7/31: McCain Brings The Nasty
Blogometer —
... Klein : "I seem to remember that midway through the Democratic primary, there was a lot of chatter about how Obama's promise of a 'new politics' meant he couldn't really go on the attack, as that would generate terrible media coverage and sink his campaign. Interestingly, this has not been a problem for McCain. Apparently, McCain proved himself committed to a politics of honor and decency sometime between 2001 and 2004, and can now go around running crypto-racist ads and lying about Obama without any fear of reprisal." dday : "Wow, this is just ...
Hey, Sunday talkers...
Daily Kos —
... Mr. McCain repeatedly said Mr. Obama "would rather lose a war to win a political campaign" and that he "does not understand" what is at stake in Iraq. He also accused Mr. Obama of canceling a visit to wounded American troops in a German military hospital because news cameras were not allowed. That’s a false account of what occurred — and Mr. McCain ignored Mr. Obama’s unheralded visit to a combat hospital in Baghdad. The Washington Post: For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. ...
How low can Senator Small go?
The Reaction —
... ” (St. Petersburg Times); “McCain Charge Against Obama Lack Evidence,” by Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz (The Washington Post); “ ...
