The media is finally starting to do its homework, and a narrative about McCain’s campaign is beginning to emerge: that they’re liars, willing to lose their integrity to win the election. Obama better pound this point home–because if McCain is going to spread lies, he deserves to have them thrown back at him.
A blizzard of “you’re a liar” coverage has emerged against McCain/Palin in recent days:
–McCain’s claims that Obama would raise taxes were called a lie–by none other than Fox News! So did the Washington Post’s editorial and factcheck.org.
–On McCain’s claim that Obama supported sex ed for kindergarteners when in fact he favored a bill in committee that would have optionally taught kids how to protect themselves from predators in language they understand, he was called a liar to his face before millions of people watching the View program with Barbara Walters.
–On that same show he was similarly called to the mat for the whole “lipstick on a pig” silly brouhaha, which has been exposed as the empty and irrelevant indignation that it was.
–On Palin’s claim that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere/pork barrel spending, we now know she was for it before she was against it.
–Along the same vein, her current claim (repeated by McCain on the View and then rejected by the hosts as another lie) that she opposed Alaska earmarks was flatly false, as she in fact requested $750 million in special federal spending from Congress–by far the largest request per capita for any state in the union.
–McCain has been crowing about large crowd sizes and claiming the numbers are backed up by fire marshals, the Secret Service and other officials. Now we hear that those officials are saying they have provided no such estimates and are unable to do so.
–Palin and McCain said she had been in Iraq, when in fact she had not.
A pattern of lying is extremely relevant in figuring out how a future administration would lead the country. I can’t remember a candidate, even Bush, that has simply and baldly lied as much as McCain has, in hopes that the speed of the Internet will make the lies true in the minds of people. Shameful.
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