NICE!

Finally a punch thrown by the Obama camp.

Good. It's the only way to get the press to really push the McCain camp on what is obviously a lie. Nice job calling them out.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

Yes, yes, yes. Don't be afraid to call these people liars. Obama comes close to this with "You can't just make stuff up," but these are lies and should be labeled as such.

Woohoo! They _finally_ let loose the L-word! Tell it like it really is. When it's a lie, call it a lie.
That said, I wonder if the story is now going to shift to the fact that Burton used "lie" to characterize the McCain ad instead of discussing the content of the deception. I'll bet my lunch the focus is squarely on the form and completely skips the content.

To everyone complaining about inaction by Obama. Stop.

Obama does this all the time. Rope-and-dope.

I think they should really pound McCain with the L-word.

Call them "liars", call their new ad "more lies" from the people who have "lied to you for the past 8 years".

It's nice to say "lie," but it'd be better to start making Palin own the Bridge to Nowhere. Instead of saying "They're lying about her opposing the Bridge to Nowhere," say "Sarah Palin brought you the Bridge to Nowhere."

In fact, she tried to bring you the Bridge to Nowhere, and failed.

The Bridge to Nowhere is a great metaphor for her candidacy. Make her the Bridge to Nowhere candidate: "She'll take this country across a Bridge to Nowhere."

I would love to be a fly on the wall at that Obama/Big Dog meeting...

Screw the MSM. They are not going to call McCain for his lies. The Obama campaign has to use some of its cash to make the case. Blanket the airwaves with commercials linking the lies to the message that McCain so disrespects American voters he is willing to lie to win an election.

They need to hit hard over this. Tell a lie enough and people will believe it. That's the McCain strategy.

They don't care if it gets debunked in the media. For every time it gets debunked, they repeat it twice.

Ok, he's my 2 cents worth of campaign advice for the day.

How about an ad simply called "Lies"

Run a montage of statements by McCain, Palin, and Bush that are demonstrably false.

Start with Bush. Stick Palin in the middle, end with McCain.

Between each clip voiceover the word "lie".

In the final clip, get McCain calling himself a "maverick", and call it a lie.

Finish with a voiceover: We have been lied to for too long. It is time for change.

From:

Head of State

http://tinyurl.com/55atsk

Monday, September 08, 2008

Fear and the Result of Our Decisions: Media, Palin and Iraq

I recall keenly the days of the run-up to the Iraq war. How many journalists--including those I knew and admired--drew back from criticism of obvious gaps and flaws in the logic leading to the conflict; who, despite stories of critical importance for the future of the nation hanging before them, left them hanging in the group-reinforced fear that they would be accused of a lack of patriotism if they were to report them.

And so they were left to be reported long after--in books looking back at the clear issues, landmark errors, and trail of missed opportunities that has led to the fatal outcomes we now see before us.

The issues were there at the time. To be reported.

They were not.

Today, they are again being cowed, by an equally powerful fear of unnecessary intimidation and restraint, the consequences of which stretch far beyond those that we have seen in Iraq.

At a time when we are at war, the economy in shambles, when today Fannie and Freddie Mac are, for the first time in their history, in effect being nationalized, we are being swept by emotion and fear--career fear--into ignoring a situation that would likely send us tumbling into the unknown.

For the short-term fear that each journalist feels, in being perceived as "unpatriotic" to vague, manifest threats regarding gender--they fail to report issues that have nothing to do with gender: the preparedness of a candidate for Vice President of the United States, running alongside an elderly and chronically ill Presidential candidate.

Instead--just as in the run-up to Iraq--each is making the easier choice--to join the risk-averse chorus of personality pieces, each, in the same diffusion of responsibility that had such a major role in leading us into the war in Iraq, taking the route that leads away from fact, regardless of gender.

As in Iraq, reporting fact--regardless of pressure for a mindless conformity and silence--represented actual patriotism, providing the nation with the information it needed to make a reliable and authentic decision, so reporting the facts here--regardless of pressure for an unthinking conformity represents a true balance, a true equality, a true lack of bias.

This is a time of difficult decisions. However, those decisions--your decisions--matter. We have seen this.

Report it. Don't be cowed.

Cite:

Head of State

http://tinyurl.com/55atsk

Finally, the Obama campaign used the word ' lie.' McFallin lies about everything and the Obama team should start pointing that out. Stop playing nice with McCain and' bitch slap' the old man. I'm so tired of this 'oh..shucks' attitude from the democrats and the democratic ticket.

A press statement is not going to cut it. They need ads that scream John McCain and Sarah Palin are pathological liars.

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Remember in the primaries Obama tried to make an issue of earmarks by challenging Clinton to release her earmark list.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/politics/14campaign.html?fta=y

If you have not seen this from the HU-PO, take a minute and do so. I don’t know when it became a major problem to state a fact as fact. Are the words LIER or LIERS out of bounds?

The people you’re trying to reach with the truth are the “Child left behind” group. The group that accepts, as the truth, anything that is repeated incessantly. With my background, the words leaving my mouth usually are “That’s a lie”! Or You’re a “lying S O B”!

Bring back the courage to properly label the lies. Just doing that will force debate on the subject.

LINK UP:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/dear-barack-when-they-lie_b_124621.html

The Obama campaign should definitely go on the offensive with ads and statements linking McCain/Palin's pattern of repeating lies to Bush/Cheney's pattern of repeating lies to push failed policies such as the invasion of Iraq. The whole point is to highlight the disastrous consequences of dishonest leadership.

John McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time

Apparently that is also a lie in the same vein. That was a snapshot of one period of time. In others he voted with Bush in the 65% range. Interesting that they don't mention that. Wonder how often McCain voted with Clinton? Liars lying about liars. Whose the liar, whose the liar, he said, she said.

And in other news:

the Democratic presidential nominee accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

The words were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week,"

Uh huh. Right. Standard questioning procedure: exhaust the subject and they will eventually slip up and tell the truth.

Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2700555/Barack-Obama-wanted-to-join-the-US-military.html

Uh huh. Right. Now that's just pathetic.

Agreed. Need to direct the hits where they have the greatest impact. Focus on the question of McCain's veracity and honor in light of obvious lies. In doing so, they'll direct attention to the top of the ticket while indirectly magnifying the issues with Palin.

The Obama campaign should definitely go on the offensive with ads and statements linking McCain/Palin's pattern of repeating lies to Bush/Cheney's pattern of repeating lies to push failed policies such as the invasion of Iraq. The whole point is to highlight the disastrous consequences of dishonest leadership.

How often did McCain vote with Cheney when they were in the Senate together?

McCain/Palin are "the Bridge to Nowhere"!

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/mccainpalin-are-the-bridge-to.php

I won't talk to trolls BUT as a shout out to logical thinkers, there is a difference between a LIE and changing a position.

Palin told the people of Ketchican they were "somewhere" to her and she'd fight for their bridge. (I believe it's a fair bet someone has that on tape.)
She didn't say, "If we want a bridge here in Alaska, we'll build it ourselves."

She used nearly 30 million dollars "earmarked" for the bridge to nowhere/somewhere for who knows what. (I'll bet there are detailed records someplace in Alaska state files.)
She did not say, "I'm sending back these wasted taxpayer dollars because I'm a maverick!"

There is lipstick on something. Not a soccer Mom or a pitbull. It smells like pork.

The Obama campaign just doesn’t get it and never will. It’s their job to tell the American it’s a LIE. Americans are dumb. Who gives a fuck about what “numerous news sources say”. Produce an ad attacking and ripping McCain balls off telling the American it’s a lie. Americans wont figure it out unless you pound them over the head with it. They will never learn. You need more then Bill Burton saying it.

Such a weak and feeble response. All we get is responses while McCain defines and sets the narrative on every issue including CHANGE

oopsie -

Just this year, she sent to Sen. Ted. Stevens, R-Alaska, a proposal for 31 earmarks totaling $197 million — more, per person, than any other state.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008154532_webpalin02m.html

my apologies.