The McCain campaign's blatant lies and distortions

McCain-Palin: Ticket to Nowhere.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin continues to repeat her Bridge to Nowhere and earmarks lies. Palin's false claims have been thoroughly debunked by the media, independent fact-checkers and public records, including in the governor's own state of Alaska. Yet she carries on lying.

Update: On Monday she was at it again. Campaigning on her own, Palin said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama "wants to raise income taxes and raise payroll taxes and raise investment income taxes and raise business taxes and raise the death tax. But John McCain and I know that's not the way you grow the economy," she added.

According to the Associated Press, independent groups such as the Tax Policy Center have concluded that four out of five U.S. households would receive tax cuts under Obama's proposals. And former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said John McCain's tax proposals are unworkable.

John Aravosis has an excellent compilation of the mainstream media taking McCain to task for his lies.

A McCain campaign spokesman shrugged off numerous media reports - and criticism leveled by members of his own party - about Palin's and McCain's insistence on knowingly telling falsehoods,. Brian Rogers told Politico, "We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?  These are the same tactics Bush and Cheney used with their "weapons of mass destruction" claim and other outright lies leading to the disastrous war in Iraq.

As Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo says, "Basing a campaign for high office on a strategy of deliberate lies is not an issue of tactics. It calls into question the character of the candidate and his fitness for office."

Photos taken at an "Alaska Women Reject Palin" rally in Anchorage, courtesy of Mudflats. Some 1,400 people (and about 90 Palin supporters who were protesting) attended the rally, which was organised by "a small group of women, talking over coffee."

Comments

[Di]

Thanks for posting this.

[dana]

Hi Tara.

I heard a great interview tonight on the CBC with one of the organizers of the event (which btw is considered the largest protest rally in the history of Alaska.) I wish I could remember her name.......she was a great bright light individual who had never in the past been involved with politics at this level before. She told a story about when she had first sent out a press release. She stated that within minutes, a right wing talking head on TV (she didn't specify who, but implied that he was quite well known) gave out her telephone number and told his "audience" to call....then he called her a baby killing maggot. Isn't that sick? She was inundated with hate calls....and threats.

I had missed this story and was only alerted to it tonight....the photos shared here brings it to reality more clearly. Love the signs!!

ps. i wrote a piece on Palin yesterday........

[studio wellspring]

i'm going to forward this post to my family & friends ~ at least at the grass roots level we can spread the word so people can make more educated decisions about who's truly ready & worthy to serve in our highest offices.

[amber]

I have been arguing with Kory about this. :(

I don't know WHY they keep holding this up, when it has in fact been debunked. If I am having issue with the McCain camp, it is that I feel he has stopped being who I admired to a large measure. That makes me sad. Maybe not all together-- I still don't think he is "McBush". But I feel like he knows he is old, an dthis is his last shot at the office, and like he has decided he will do "what it takes". MAYBE he feels this way because he HONESTLY feels he is best for the job-- as he woud have been over Bush is 2000, IMO. But still...It makes me sad. The whole thing makes me sad.

:(

[My Mélange]

Sad isn't it. Glad to see that someone is showing NOT ALL WOMEN LIKE HER!!!

I was impressed by Barbara Walters and most of the women on The View this week when they grilled McCain. Babs really served him up on a platter!!

[deb]

GREAT POST!