firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 7/30/2008
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro McCain and his campaign repeated at least two lines of attack against Obama, which when first said in early July, were called "bogus," "wrong," "inflated" and "misleading" by independent fact checkers.
At his town hall today, McCain repeated that Obama wants to raise taxes on those making as little as $32,000 a year and in his campaign's response to Obama's event in Springfield, Mo., today, repeated that "...Obama’s bad judgment led him to vote in support of ...
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Pants on Fire II
Matthew Yglesias —
... NBC News: "McCain and his campaign repeated at least two lines of attack against Obama, which when first said in early July, were called 'bogus,' 'wrong,' 'inflated' and 'misleading' by independent fact checkers." ...
The key difference between a mistake and a lie
Political Animal —
... time. He or she could always just claim ignorance: “Wait, he wasn’t caught in a compromising position with farm animals? Oh, I’d heard that he was. My mistake.”
When someone makes a false claim after he/she has been told it’s false, there’s less of an excuse. At that point, it goes from a mistake to a lie. It’s the difference between inadvertently misleading people and deliberately misleading people.
And John McCain is deliberately misleading people.
McCain and his campaign repeated at least two ...
The key difference between a mistake and a lie
Crooks and Liars —
... little easier to get away with it the first time. He or she could always just claim ignorance: “Wait, he wasn’t caught in a compromising position with farm animals? Oh, I’d heard that he was. My mistake.”
When someone makes a false claim after he/she has been told it’s false, there’s less of an excuse. At that point, it goes from a mistake to a lie. It’s the difference between inadvertently misleading people and deliberately misleading people.
And John McCain is deliberately misleading people.
McCain and his campaign repeated at least ...
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