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Fibbin' For Laughs
Talking Points Memo —
... New McCain ad sliming Obama for supposedly saying Iran is "tiny" and "doesn't pose a serious threat" is a comically dishonest distortion of what Obama actually said. ...
McCain: Too Reckless to Lead
democracyarsenal.org —
... In terms of McCain's ad. The whole point is to elevate the Iranian threat to some ridiculous level of fear and paranoia equivalent to the Nazis or the Soviet Union. First of all, the quote is of course completely out of context. Obama clearly takes Iran seriously. All you have to do is read his policies and listen to his positions. ...
McCain: 'Tiny'
Ben Smith's Blog —
... The ad conflates Obama's quotes about America's security and Israel's, suggesting I suppose that they're identical, and stretches fairly badly out of context. ...
Distortion, Retribution
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
dnclogo2.gif DENVER - I have to agree with Greg Sargent and Andrew Sullivan about McCain's new ad . As a matter of politics, the ad is quite effective, but to generate that effect the McCain campaign has taken Obama's words out of context. Obama did not say Iran was "tiny" or "didn't pose a threat". He said it was tiny and didn't pose a threat compared to the size and threat posed by the former Soviet Union. (That said, in his original remarks Obama did lump Iran in the same category as Cuba, which is a naive and foolish comparison to make). The McCain camp ...
It's Not That Hard
The Anonymous Liberal —
... Take McCain's latest ad, for instance, which takes the art of lying to new levels. In the ad, McCain takes a completely non-controversial Obama quote so far out of context as to completely invert its meaning. It is audacious in its brazen dishonestly. And to their credit, some reporters have ...
A tale of two buses
Nitpicker —
... whenever he starts in with the small talk. I won't argue that the reporters should let Obama talk off-the-record at length. They are, after all, there to tell us about the man, not become his buddy. But, in story after story, I hear the press complaining that they miss the old McCain. Their buddy. The jokester. Well, that guy has turned into a person who delights in taking his opponent's most casual and innocuous statements out of context and use them as cudgels or, in some cases, just intentionally misconstrue the meaning of what Obama said. ...
