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Hot Air » Top Picks: New lefty charge: McCain wants to bring back the draft, except of course he doesn’t
The Atlantic Politics Channel: Does McCain Favor a Draft? Nope.
The Jawa Report: Anatomy of a Nutroot Smear
Think Progress: Media Rallies To McCain’s Defense, Gives Him ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt’ On Draft Comments
New lefty charge: McCain wants to bring back the draft, except of course he doesn’t
Hot Air » Top Picks —
New lefty charge: McCain wants to bring back the draft, except of course he doesn’t posted at 9:58 pm on August 20, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly I’d call it stupid except that the people circulating it understand perfectly well what happened here. After all, if they’re willing to accuse him of lying about the POW cross story based on no evidence, why would they cut him a break on this? I first saw it this afternoon and didn’t think it was worth responding to, but since Marc Ambinder’s gone to the trouble of debunking it, here’s a link . Nutshell: A woman asked him a long question about veterans’ benefits, then punctuated it ...
Does McCain Favor a Draft? Nope.
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Liberals are having a conniption over Sen. John McCain's purported endorsement of a draft today. In Las Crucas, New Mexico, a woman asked McCain about the "horrible conditions" that veterans often see when return from combat. Here's the last few sentences: My
son is an officer in the Air Force, I'm a vet., and I was raised in a military
family. And I think it's a sorry state of affairs. When we have
illegal aliens; having a medic-aid card that can access specialists, top
physicians, the best of medical, and our vets can't even get to a doctor.
And these are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the ...
Anatomy of a Nutroot Smear
The Jawa Report —
August 20, 2008 Anatomy of a Nutroot Smear Let's look at what happens when an unedited video gets into the hands to the nutroot hatchet men, shall we? It's instructive to watch the cockroaches operate. It's been debunked , but don't let that get in way of a good smear. Here's the original video (4:43 in length), for reference (curiously omitted from an idiotic ThinkRegress post, which I won't link - go thru Hot Air ): Here's the HOPE-N-CHANGED version courtesy of the nutroots smear merchants - note where they cut it off (1:53 in length): Hmmm. It's missing nearly three minutes of McCain's response. But no matter - McSAME IS BRINGING BACK THE DRAFT ...
Media Rallies To McCain’s Defense, Gives Him ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt’ On Draft Comments
Think Progress —
During a townhall meeting yesterday, an audience member asked a long-winded question that ended with a call to enact the military draft in order to “chase bin Laden to the gates of Hell.” McCain immediately replied, “I don’t disagree with anything you said.”
Brushing off his instant response, some journalists are refusing to take McCain’s statement at face value. “Does McCain favor a draft? Nope,” the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder wrote on his blog yesterday, deriding liberals for “having a conniption.” When asked about the quote last night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC Political ...
