Monday, September 15, 2008
And the press is catching on
Whether it is in the Charlotte NC Observer
The press is waking up to the Old Fart and his Rovian playbook.
EXTRA: US News & World Report and David Ignatius are getting the picture.
The problems for McCain started with a pair of ads last week critical of Obama's position on early childhood sex education and his "disrespectful" words toward Sarah Palin. Both ads were roundly criticized for what one analyst called "a dubious disregard for the facts." Then the Boston Globe reported that Palin had never visited Iraq, as the McCain camp had claimed, and Bloomberg News reported that the campaign may have even fibbed about crowd estimates, attributing the numbers to sources that don't do crowd estimates.Or from Tom Toles in the Washington Post
Add to that, finally, Palin's insistence last week on claiming she said "thanks but no thanks to Congress" for the now infamous Bridge to Nowhere - a notion debunked by several media, including the conservative Wall Street Journal. It's enough fibbing that conservative media and Republican strategists have winced a bit - including Karl Rove, who told Fox News yesterday that McCain had "gone one step too far, attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100 percent truth test."
The press is waking up to the Old Fart and his Rovian playbook.
EXTRA: US News & World Report and David Ignatius are getting the picture.
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