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McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding
Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn't come from Obama.
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Factcheck.org Slams McCain Misquoting Factcheck.org
Hoffmania! — ... How chronic has McCain-Palin's lying gotten? They're attributing Obama attacks to Factcheck.org - when Factcheck.org did no such thing. And Factcheck.org has hit back. ...

McCain Campaign Lies About Lies
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... It’s time to start using the L-word when referring to John McCain and his campaign for the presidency. Misleading doesn’t quite capture the hypocritical use of distortions to make your opponent appear dishonest, as McCain’s latest ad attempts. ...

McCain-Palin butchers FactCheck.org - supporters need to rebuke them
The Moderate Voice — ... for “completely false or misleading” rumors about Sarah Palin. Curious to see what this report was, I visited FactCheck, associated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and saw they didn’t appreciate the campaign’s creative interpretation of their report: ...

Lies, Damned Lies And Sarah Palin, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Factcheck.org doesn't appreciate McCain messing with their facts. The McCain camp is the most dishonest I have seen since the Clintons'. ...

McSame and Mooselini are LIARS
WTF Is It Now?!? — Factcheck.org says Grandpa Blinky McSame's pants are on fire. With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said "completely false" attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.Proving that the truth and reality have a liberal bias. The McSame campaign is doing it's damnest to make Pretzelnut Drinky ...

Campaign 08: A New View
The Nation: Top Stories — ... this year. Terrific! Yet another McCain lie has been exposed. Now what? Will the Times or some other news outlet put McCain or at least one of his surrogates on the spot about it? At one point on The View , Joy Behar emotionally and honestly told McCain to his face that his both infamous "sex ed" ad and sexism accusations were lies. McCain could only defend them by saying "Actually, they're not lies" ( Yes, they are ) and by suggesting Obama's ads are just as bad ( No, they're not ). He then went on to make an absurd defense of negative ads that ...

The McCain campaign and the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty
Crooks and Liars — ... . Second, the very same FactCheck.org website that John McCain cites in his email has a new post up today saying that McCain’s attack ad is distorted their finding. ...

Rove: ‘You can’t trust the fact-check organizations.’
Think Progress — This week, non-partisan fact-checking organizations like PolitiFact and FactCheck.org have called Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) out for lies in his attack ads against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). But on Fox News Sunday today, former Bush political adviser Karl Rove dismissed the organizations, claiming that “they’ve got their own biases built in there.” “You can’t trust the fact-check organizations,” said Rove. Watch it:

Independent Observers Agree: John McCain Is Dishonest and Dishonorable
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... FactCheck.org: McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding: Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn't come from Obama. A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "completely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama... ...

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