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McCain Defends His Robo-Slime Campaign, Lies About It
By Greg Sargent - October 19, 2008, 11:01AM
John McCain defended his robo-slime campaign against Barack Obama today -- and as a special bonus, completely misrepresented what his robocalls actually say about Obama.
McCain's comments on robo-slime-gate came this morning on Fox News, after Chris Wallace pointed out that John McCain had denounced robo-sliming back when he was the target of it in 2000.
Wallace asked him if he would stop his own robo-slime campaign against Obama, and McCain said "of course not." The Obama campaign was quick to highlight the exchange in a transcript emailed out to reporters.
McCain defended his robo-slime by saying that the calls directed at him were worse than anything his own calls said about Obama.
"These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family and about certain aspects that -- things that this is -- this is dramatically different and either you haven't -- didn't see those things in 2000," McCain said.
McCain said his robo-slime was highlighting "a legitimate issue," which is the question of whether Obama is "being truthful with the American people," a clear reference to his robo-call attacking Obama's association with William Ayers.
Actually, this is false. McCain's robo-call about Obama and Ayers says absolutely nothing about whether Obama is telling the truth about his relationship with the former Weatherman. If you don't believe me, you can listen to the full call right here.
McCain's Ayers robo-slime is not about Obama's honesty at all. Rather, it's all about Ayers' domestic terrorism, and it's all about the false insinuation that Obama has "worked closely" with Ayers in his capacity as a terrorist and killer of Americans.
We're now at the point where John McCain has been reduced to distorting his own distortions -- he's not only running a robo-slime campaign that is totally at odds with his previously claimed principles, but he's now lying about it, too. |
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_robo-slime_is_just_fine.php
Look at the polling on RCP, this stuff is working. |
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