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- pennsykid2000, on 09/11/2008, -45/+661Even when the McCain campaign is called on these sleazy ads, they continue to lie. A McCain rep last night on the PBS Newshour continued to claim it was accurate and encouraged viewers to go online and find out about it. Well, a NY Times article today examined it carefully and concluded it "seriously distorts the record." The ad talks about Education Week’s impressions of Obama without mentioning that they thought McCain was worse. As the article says, ‘Early this year, in an article titled “John McCain Where Art Thou?” it complained that he offered “a laundry list of fairly vague answers” on how to improve schools and did not make education a priority. “Education is not his thing.”’
As even many Republicans are now admitting, this McCain ad is all part of the distraction campaign by McCain to steer the discussion away from the issues, because he gets creamed if the campaign is about the issues.
So, Republican hypocrisy strikes again. Earlier this year, a woman at a McCain townhall meeting asked him, "What do we do about the bitch?", referring to Hillary Clinton. McCain smiled as everyone else laughed, and then addressed the question. Now his campaign is calling Obama "sexist". I've said this many times but I'll say it again, if hypocrisy was outlawed, Republicans would go mute. They would have nothing to say. - poeburger, on 09/11/2008, -31/+336Where is the straight talk express? McCain is about image not content. He is the same as George Bush, He repeats lies until the media accepts them as the truth, are the American people this trusting? It is time for a change. I want a campaign built on issues not smears and innuendos. Let's elect a President who is paying attention to the big issues - education and economy. 30 years ago we had a heads up about reliance on foreign oil. We need to change our whole economy over to alternative energy not give big oil more incentives for more of the same. We are a smart, resourceful country. Let's move forward into a renewable future. I suspect all the good jobs will be there.
- garg, on 09/11/2008, -30/+277And these lies are just the tip of the iceberg. The same people who asked you to vote for Bush are asking you to vote for McCain. To independents and undecideds: Don't Fall for it!
- Xenologer, on 09/11/2008, -30/+259Saying "there've been smears on both sides, politics is just like that" is untrue. I'll stop short of saying anyone who claims it is a liar, because perhaps it's cynicism or simple ignorance talking. It's much more fair to say there are stupid rumors about both tickets' candidates, but that only one campaign is actively encouraging these nonsensical smears.
For example, there've been wild accusations online that Palin is a witch because of the names of her kids (because two of them happen to match the names of two TV witches whose shows aired after the kids were born). Not only did Obama state that people need to leave her family out of this, his campaign didn't bring those attacks to the fore with a supporting ad from the campaign.
Contrast this with McCain, who saw crazy conspiracy theories online about Obama being the anti-Christ (google "Obama Nicolae Carpathia" and you'll see what I mean), and instead of denouncing or ignoring them McCain's campaign aired that dog-whistle ad calling Obama "The One."
There is a big difference in the level and type of attacks on the Dems and Repubs sides here, so treating this election like it's everybody smearing equally is inaccurate and deceptive.
Wild and stupid rumors are spreading on both ends of the political spectrum, but only one candidate is encouraging them: McCain. Grouping Obama's campaign in with McCain's is either a startling display of ignorance about what these campaigns are really doing, or it's a deliberately deceptive attempt to drag Obama down to McCain's level in the minds of people who aren't paying enough attention to know the difference. - VulcanMike, on 09/11/2008, -36/+249Every ad, every lie -- refuted right here.
- omegaant, on 09/11/2008, -25/+170Bush taught us all that the truth does not matter. When the same lie is repeated 3 times, the human brain begins to accept it as truth - the Republicans and the media knows this - and it is very difficult to undo the lie, even with proof! These people, this freak-show, knows that people will believe anything, as long as you say it first and repeat it a few times. Now Palin's up in AK, reading even her simplest speeches from a teleprompter (written by whom?). Will the nightmare never end?
- elshizzo, on 09/11/2008, -20/+162"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" -- Winston Churchill
Seriously though, this ad would need to be 30 minutes long to cover every McCain lie in his ads - xilduq, on 09/11/2008, -27/+140“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” -- Adolph Hitler (or was it John W. McBush? I get them mixed up sometimes.)
- olduncledave, on 09/11/2008, -29/+117It appears KKKarl Rove has taken over Cain's campaign.
- vbteecha99, on 09/11/2008, -22/+107Surely intelligent minds will prevail! Bush used this very same dirty tactic against McCain when they were running against one another. Does the man have no shame?????
- conesnail, on 09/11/2008, -30/+103The KIndergarten ad says it all. McCain IS Bush. You act like a bush, quack like a bush, smell like a bush, and campaign like a bush, you are a Bush. If McCain wins, we are in very very deep trouble indeed. Our politics is completely hopeless. We will have proven ourselves incapable of running a national election devoted to issues, policy, anything that has to do with how we will actually be governed.
I understand that there are many people who actually agree with the Republican agenda and are voting for McCain based on issues, but they are not the ones who will decide this election, it will be those who respond to, one way or the other, the crap that now defines the discourse. - neneburge, on 09/11/2008, -24/+95I hope we can get this out since MSM seems to be so fascinated by Palin they cannot concentrate of the things that are important to the American people. The republicans are experts on winning elections on the superficial by diverting from the real issues but we as Americans have to hold them accountable. If the dems had chosen Sarah Palin it would be all over and Obama would be saying Bye Bye to this election. We MUST demand that rethugs address the issues not the personalities!!!
- Canyon1951, on 09/11/2008, -21/+90I was uncertain about Obama until McCain began his courtship of the radical right. I planned to maintain my normal political apathy until McCain began his campaign of outright lies and personal smears. Whatever vestige of respect I had for my senator has been forever lost...I'm ashamed of John McCain for adopting the tactics of Rove. In this case, his shameful campaign has had the opposite effect he intended; it's created one more highly committed supporter for Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. Robert Doyle, Mesa, Arizona
- FromACanteen, on 09/11/2008, -2/+62Pennsy is right. Please digg this video up to the front page so others may be informed. Lies shoud not have a place in politics, by either side. Unfortunately, it falls to the people to point them out when they do, as media tends to be biased towards different parties anyway.
- stormkrow, on 09/11/2008, -4/+63I've said it before and I'll say it again there are NO republicans in the republican party and a vote or support for McCain/Palin is tantamount to accepting everything over the last 8 years. In my mind if you support this party that means you have to OWN everything that goes along with it you don't get to pick and choose if you whole heartedly support the GOP then you OWN all of it's failings too and that diggers is the cold hard reality of it all and I'm sorry to say it but it makes you a hypocrite of the highest magnitude.
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Katrina, FISA, the Patriot Act, Stevens, DeLay, Abramoff, Enron, Worldcomm, 9-11, Gonzalez, Rove, CEO bail outs, Plamegate, loss of Habeus Corpus, Shredding of the Constitution, $4 gas, Voter caging in Ohio and Florida, racism against illegal immigrants, LGBT hate crimes, "Mission Accomplished", 1 Million+ Iraqi civilian causalities, 1 Million+ Casualties and refugees in Sudan/Darfur, 10,000 fold increase in heroin production, the worst "Dollar" in American history, 6.1% unemployment (conservative), tent cities, 40 Million+ uninsured, Walter Reed, Drill our way out, from the most respected to the most hated citizens on Earth, Coalition of the Billing, multi-billion dollar profits for Big Oil, mulit-billion dollar contracts for Halliburton, the most secretive gvt in modern history, commuting of sentences for convicted traitors, Supreme court standing by big business, Gulf War Syndrome vets class action lawsuit quashed, Abstinence Only education, public schools failing our children, bridges collapsing in Minnesota, our highway and infrastructure in complete disarray, the fight for Net Neutrality, 8,000 dead Americans, ........
OWN IT GOP Supporters. OWN IT. Lock, Stock and Barrel.
When you post up your support of McCain/Palin then you by default agree with and standby the short list noted above. NO you don't get to pick and choose, this is YOUR party, OWN IT. Yes a vote for McCain/Palin IS a full throated endorsement of the Bush Administration. PERIOD. End of discussion. The Republican party didn't change and to think that it did is a level of naivety that should only be displayed by toddlers. Once you decide to actually OWN your party and all of it's failings THEN you can digg me down.
VOTE!! - dig1x, on 09/11/2008, -23/+78They didnt even get to cover the Lipstick on a Pig LIE.
McCain is a scumbag. Usual GOP garbage. - Craftybadger, on 09/11/2008, -6/+59This man makes me want to move to America.
And vote against him. - pimpofpixels, on 09/11/2008, -9/+62It's really frustrating sometimes that lying on TV isn't illegal.
- wendelgee2, on 09/11/2008, -6/+55Go ahead and debunk them. Right here. Find one, and call it out. Nobody's stopping you.
If you don't, you're just a goddamn whiner looking for the Digg equivalent of Affirmative Action for Republicans. - mambanamba, on 09/11/2008, -11/+60but mccain was a pow!
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -13/+61“A lie told often enough becomes truth”
Valdimir Lenin - LeekMibles, on 09/11/2008, -32/+79DIGG THIS!
- twiztidsinz, on 09/11/2008, -10/+56But what you're not understanding is,
Republican lies ARE the truth...
http://imvotingrepublican.com/ - licnyc, on 09/11/2008, -22/+68Its crazy so many people are complacent with lying in politics. It seems to be a race to vote for the best liar and the end of it we get stuck with fake FEMA news conferences, sketchy intelligence reports, deleted emails and outright lies- but people will still accept it.
- frygar, on 09/11/2008, -0/+43"This article may be innacurate" coming soon!
- JenniferInMO, on 09/11/2008, -20/+63Please digg, shout and send a link to this video to the MSM. It may be a little glitzy, but the MSM needs to make statements about the campaign in general. They need to point out that it is one of the sleaziest campaigns ever and quote McCain's pledge that he will run a clean campaign. It is not politics as usual, it is worse. McCain has embraced nasty campaigning. His campaign is run by over 150 corporate lobbyists. Is this how he intends to "reform" Washington?
- Wryly, on 09/11/2008, -9/+50The way he treats his wife, the way he treats the troops, the way he treats his campaign. It's just alllll sooo mavericky.
- chosenson, on 09/11/2008, -22/+62McCain's talent for deceiving the public becomes starkly evident.
Think about how this particular quality allowed George Bush to deceive the entire country in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Couple that with McCain's recent bullying and manipulation of the press, and a very troubling pattern emerges.
When you add McCain's promise of more wars, and his desire to re-instate the draft . . . WE, the people, have a problem! - waydee, on 09/11/2008, -15/+54It blows my mind that politicians in the US are even allowed to advertise on TV let alone make the claims that they do... the whole thing feels like a game.
- jamesk256, on 09/11/2008, -16/+54This man is a complete scumbag. I will not allow any more of these flat out lies to go without notice. Anything and anyone associated with the McCain campaign is as sleazy as the leader. Seriously, what a piece of trash. How can anyone be so ignorant to fall for this. This community of people who actually look at both sides, i.e. the people who check facts on the internet can see right through it. If you're foolish and cold enough to support this dirt bag, I don't want to associate with you.
- Bilbofbaggins, on 09/11/2008, -1/+36Yes! To independents and undecideds----vote on facts not lies. Vote on issues not who wears lipstick.
- kingUssop, on 09/11/2008, -18/+53Being President = more important than ethical behavior to John McCain. So far he's used music at huge events that would normally deserve a large royalty, illegally. He's lied in the majority of his ads. That's not illegal (one can only imagine why), but extremely unethical. He picked a VP he and almost no one in the party even knew, to be his running mate, because she was a woman. That's unethical. He has started back up the fake culture war to divide the country and get the hopping mad red states voting more. That's very unethical. Tell me, the man can't even run an honest, humble campaign that shows his integrity?
- DesignNerd, on 09/11/2008, -19/+52I approve THAT message
- byronm, on 09/11/2008, -2/+35I know its an old saying, I know i'm not the first to say it, i know it adds no value to the discussion but:
I wish i could dig you a thousand times
McCain just doesn't get it. - Infidelcastr0, on 09/11/2008, -17/+50This is nothing new. Republicans have been using ad-hominen smears and flat out lies in campaign ads for decades. Whats sad is how well it works. Even more disgusting is how the media ignores it, sure, occasionally they'll tapdance around the issue and call a statement "demonstrably false" "factually inaccurate" or a "mischaracterization" but they'll never just flat out call republican lies what they are, lies. And to think some idiots think the media has a liberal bias. Think about how ridiculous that idea is for a second, you are a huge multinational corporation who profits off of war and sensationalism. Which side are you gonna back? The one that wants to cut corporate taxes, peddle influence, rubberstamp and deregulate everything you want, and give you all the war and sleaze you could ever dream of, or the one that wants to tax you, regulate you, negotiate with "enemies" and break up corporate monstrosities. Use your heads people.
- kss42, on 09/11/2008, -1/+33My suspicions began with the release of the new slogan, "John McCain: Cake for America"
- Skywise, on 09/11/2008, -13/+45I don't know how this story got dugg up with all the McCain Bury brigades out there...
- tuneprof, on 09/11/2008, -24/+55The Republican sleaze-meisters, led by John McCain, are just a bunch of thugs trying to bully common Americans who don't have enough time in the day to sift through and sort out their BS from the truth. Come on, McCain, show us your "STRAIGHT TALK!!" No more LIES! Show the American people some RESPECT by allowing us to make an educated voting decision based on TRUTH!!!!
- esmucker, on 09/11/2008, -13/+43Can we put this on TV?
- MacroDaemon, on 09/11/2008, -8/+37It's like I've traveled into the twilight zone. Where balanced political reporting doesn't happen very often.
- YEEK, on 09/11/2008, -7/+36The McCain campaign is nothing but a propaganda machine.
- exomni, on 09/11/2008, -1/+29I'm independent, I protested the DNC. Yet even I can see the attacks and mistruths are extraordinarily one-sided.
- zephyrnug, on 09/11/2008, -18/+46Everyone needs to see this video so they can see McCain for what he really is. DIGG DIGG DIGG!!!
Direct link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk
Ha, T Boone Pickens! Great name! - kidathinnes, on 09/11/2008, -11/+38Do we still have to point out to you morons that youtube's view count is delayed?
- FreddieD, on 09/11/2008, -7/+33I bet you didn't even bother to watch the video, did you?
- inactive, on 09/11/2008, -1/+27The problem is people believe what they see on TV and it's all true. How many people still think wrestling is real? Come on, media has to come down on this ***** hard and call him out to his face instead of filtering his crap through subordinates.
If Obama doesn't trip up hard, and I mean hard not some lipstick pig *****, he better win by a landslide. I don't know how to make excuses for Americans after 8 yrs of Bush anymore. - kenedamick, on 09/11/2008, -2/+27Neocon liar.
- kcpistol, on 09/11/2008, -3/+28I'm sure this article will be marked as inaccurate. They can't counter the facts, or the massive diggs, so they will just go ahead and tell yet another lie.
- ironhide, on 09/11/2008, -3/+27Don't like it? Refute it. Can't? STFU.
- VinnieDaMac, on 09/11/2008, -0/+24I don't care who you're voting for, you have to admit that these ads are ridiculous.
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