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CNN: Palin's "Palling Around With Terrorists" Claim Is False (video)
youtube.com - 10/5/2008
CNN: Palin's "Palling Around With Terrorists" Claim Is False (video)
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The CNN truth squad debunks another McCain lie.

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Palin's smear to change the subject: "False" according to CNN. AP calls it "unsubstantiated." Wanna bet Brokaw makes it a debate topic?

Firedoglake:  CNN Truth-Squads Palin’s “Palling Around With Terrorists” Charge: FALSE

DownWithTyranny!:  McCain Campaign Refuses To Address Palin Lies About Obama "Palling Around With Terrorists"

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Palin's smear to change the subject: "False" according to CNN. AP calls it "unsubstantiated." Wanna bet Brokaw makes it a debate topic?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Sarah Palin just says whatever is on her note cards or her coffee cup. Facts don't matter. So, she launched a new attack on Obama yesterday over William Ayres. No credible news organization has ever found a link between Obama and Ayers. But, that didn't stop Palin. The reviews are in. AP calls her claim "unsubstantiated." ...

CNN Truth-Squads Palin’s “Palling Around With Terrorists” Charge: FALSE
Firedoglake — CNN Sunday jumped on Sarah Palin's remark.  It's false.  There is no truth to her claim that Barack Obama "is palling around with terrorists."  It is a lie. Will John McCain reject and denounce Sarah Palin's false statements about Barack Obama? Certainly someone who wanted to run an ...

McCain Campaign Refuses To Address Palin Lies About Obama "Palling Around With Terrorists"
DownWithTyranny! — CNN bends so far over backwards to present all sides, that they often-- very often-- will state completely made up propaganda from the GOP and give it an equal footing to objective reality. It's part of the reason I bade my longtime station adieu and migrated to MSNBC earlier this year. But today CNN did yeoman's work in debunking the Lipsticked Pitbull's latest Obama smear, the Bill Ayer's nonsense. Keep in mind that Obama was 8 years old when Ayer's was a member of the Weather Underground and that he long ago denounced Ayers' violence. Ace McCain, of course, is too chickenshit to repeat this whopper himself so he sends the ...

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