Friday, September 12, 2008
politics / media / national McCain grilled, AP steps up reporting
Posted by Matt Saldaña on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:25 PM
In his interview today with "The View," John McCain continued to lie about the Bridge to Nowhere, and stood by two ads that are "misleading and factually inaccurate," AP reports. The wire report, which counters several of McCain's lies with good old fashioned facts, is perhaps the news agency's most scathing assessment of the McCain-Palin campaign--and it's a straight news article. Will newspapers run it? (Yesterday, the N&O, which subscribes to the AP wire, gave the front-page treatment to a sympathetic thumbsucker over a more critical analysis by the same agency, which it ran online.)
McCain said he had chosen Palin because she would help to reform Washington, specifically cited curbing federal spending for earmarks. When pressed about Palin's record of requesting and accepting such money for Alaska, McCain ignored the record and said, "Not as governor she didn't."
Permitted HTML:
- To create paragraphs in your comment, type <p> at the start of a paragraph and </p> at the end of each paragraph.
- To create bold text, type <b>bolded text</b> (please note the closing tag, </b>).
- To create italicized text, type <i>italicized text</i> (please note the closing tag, </i>).
- Proper web addresses will automatically become links.
Latest in Triangulator
-
War and NASCAR: America-F&#$-Yeah
NASCAR honors great American war hero/criminal Oliver North with its prestigious Stonewall Jackson Award
- May 23, 2013
-
EPA to hold public meeting tonight about water contamination in Wake Forest
EPA to hold meeting tonight about water contamination in Wake Forest
- May 21, 2013
-
New AFL-CIO report evaluates worker health and safety
According to the report, 148 workers were killed on the job in North Carolina in 2011, a rate slightly higher than the national average.
- May 20, 2013
- More »
