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AMERICAblog: McCain attack ad is "literally not true" says NBC's Andrea Mitchell

  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Yes, I saw her make the statement and it was good.
    But later on Hardball, Mrs. Greenspan joined Plagiarist Barnicle and a couple of others in dissing Obama for Looking too presidential in Europe and for the bits of arrogance he displays.
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    What the hell is wrong with looking presidential? I can't wait till Obama is elected and we finally have a president we can be proud of. Good riddance smirking chimp, no thanks "pre-dementia" McBush!
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    True. I'd give Cheney's left n*t (ah, what the hey--both of them) for a President that actually even just looked presidential for a change!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    still, the GOPers make points every time one of them spouts that line..."that if I'D been told I couldn't visit the troops, it would've been a national issue" or a "seismic event" or some such crap.

    as if Obama, young, inexperienced newbie that he is, just wimped out or something.
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
    And FactCheck also. said the ads are false:

    http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...
  • remikane · 1 year ago
    Umm, no. She does not deserve a "THANK YOU" for finally doing her job. The only reason she's being so upfront about it is because there's no way for her to weasle out of it. Case in point, where she CAN weasel - the issue of Obama being "too presidential" or not deferential enough to world leaders who apparently had no problem with Obama - she does. Sorry, she's not off my shyte list.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Yeah, Mrs Greenspan gets a point, one measly point, for this.

    Speaking of offensive ads...

    First Snickers, now Guiness.
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    Um, I thought it was hilarious.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Hilarious? Mildly amusing, maybe.

    Sharing with a friend or two...subtlety escapes you? Objectification?
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    God may forgive, but I don't...(great old song by Lyle Lovett)
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    i think the best point is that the pentagon got Obama in a catch-22.

    if he went, McCain could say he was using the wounded troops for political points.
    if he didn't go, McCain could say he didn't care about the troops.

    and i think Obama knew this and chose the better option, because it's clear he does care about the troops.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I have to give Mrs. Greenspan her due.

    I know she's a Repub, but if she plays it straight I don't care if she's a member of the Raving Looney Party.

    Tell the truth. That's all I ask.
  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...

    Scheunemann was a board member of Bill Kristol's Project for a New American Century, which played a major role in agitating for the war. Scheunemann signed Kristol's influential letter to President Bush, sent nine days after 9/11, which asserted that failing to respond to the Al Qaeda attack by going after Saddam would "constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism." Scheunemann also served as a "consultant" to Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon while it was planning the war. And in late 2002, Scheunemann, with administration approval, founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), an advocacy group with the explicit goal of whipping up pro-war sentiment across the country.

    (Ask Mrs. Greenspan about THIS guy...)
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    I'm not thanking here for nothing. Until there's a consistent pattern of her "doing her job" will I thank her. She's earned nothing from me.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    media ho
  • paul94611 · 1 year ago
    As a 100% disabled veteran and Ranger course graduate there are few things lower a politician can do than to use, or attempt to use service members as props. Especially during wartime.
    In this John McCain and his campaign have ventured into the realm of the despicable.
    Of course, for the candidate that wants to do away with primary care, or any non combat related care at the VA, real funding for the VA or for TRICARE (The medical system for the family members of service members), the New GI Bill and full funding of the needs of active duty service members so they do not need to by battries for their night vision or field equipment used in combat operations John McCain is all about making sure KKR can electrocute our military members, but he refuses to take care of them and their families needs.
    John McCain is the scrooge of military members, veterans and their families.
    To put it plainly, John McCain is to veterans and military family issues what Anita Bryant is to LGBT rights and issues off concern.
  • Mark217 · 1 year ago
    McCain treats America's troops and veterans like he treated his first wife: abuse, fraud, neglect, abandonment, infidelity. Thanks for your service in the Army Paul!
  • paul94611 · 1 year ago
    Thank you for your comment and for exercising your first amendment rights... Best wishes..
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    I too would first like to thank you for your service Paul. I think it is of paramount importance for the veterans, both individuals and groups, to speak out against Insane McBush3 and the carefully burnished facade of his own past and the fictional idea that he has been behind everything for the veterans. Judging from a list of actions he voted against, he is AGAINST aid, help, or support for veterans active or retired. You guys and gals are the only ones who can really refute McCain's outrageous claims. He is a liar, a crook, and a moral leper and needs tro be brought down before he does any more damage to this country and especially to our veterans
    By the way, do you or does anyone know what if any benefits McCain receives as a veteran?
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    FOUR MORE PAIN-vote mccain
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    OT:

    Adkisson told officers he left the house unlocked for them because "he expected to be killed during the assault."

    Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.

    The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of "the liberal movement," and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.


    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/28/181811/...
  • Mark217 · 1 year ago
    This guy was obviously a Republican operative.
  • Dianne_in_DC · 1 year ago
    Go directly to the source. The Knoxville news has some great coverage.

    http://www.knoxnews.com
  • evie · 1 year ago
    Most of the reporters who were on the trip are doing the same thing - Mitchell, Tapper, Wolfe. I'm glad, but an important question is: Why is it so hard to get the reporting right even if you are not sitting on the plane next to Obama? They are reporters, it's their job to get it right. But apparently, unless they have "personal experience" with a situation, they are only comfortable with "balanced," he said/she said coverage.

    And what of the reporters who didn't get to go on the trip and are ignoring their A-list colleagues and reporting the false claims anyway? Lots of professional jealousy revealed in the reporting of this story.
  • GWMustGo · 1 year ago
    Being from North Carolina, I am very, very embarrassed that the scum represents NC in the Senate.
  • Mark217 · 1 year ago
    I have seen the McCain television ad. I am a veteran of the U.S. Army. I can tell you that John McCain refused to support the 2008 New GI Bill. He allied himself with George Bush and talked the new GI Bill down. This legislation was very important to me as a veteran. And McCain was at a fundraiser when the U.S. Senate voted on the new GI Bill. John McCain does not have a spotless record in terms of "always" supporting our troops. And there wouldn't be many wounded troops to visit if McCain and Bush hadn't opted for the unnecessary Iraq War. McCain's falure in terms of the new GI Bill stands out when he claims that he "always" supports the troops. Whether or not a candidate visits or doesn't visit a military hospital on a given day has no bearing on my vote for president. The New GI Bill of 2008 is much more important to troops and veterans than a candidate briefly visiting a military hospital. I was also struck by how very low-budget and what poor production values McCain's ad had. Usually candidates from the two big political parties have televisions ads with very good production values (and the ads are slick and have a message with some teeth). This McCain ad was so badly produced that my intital reaction was that the McCain ad was a spoof ad on a Saturday Night Live or Mad TV rerun or a spoof ad from a Comedy Channel type program. Senator McCain, your ad is an awful pack of lies, but senile and amateurish quality of the ad did make me laugh. It did have significant comedic value
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    FOUR MORE PAIN-VOTE mccain
  • MaudGonne · 1 year ago
    NYC cop assaulting cyclist

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Let the public continue to see them brutalizing the people. Then, maybe eventually, we can get past the authority worship in this country.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Tasering and chit.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    The point is to muddy the waters, introduce confusion, and turn a candidate's strength against him so as to get voters to scratch their heads and doubt a story or situation. This is the essence of Rovean ratfucking and the MSM fail to cut through it every time. Mrs. Greenspan does OK, I suppose--for once.
  • JustAnOldLady · 1 year ago
    I live in NC.........just sent him a scathing communication..........
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    He's probably a fundie, too. See, they infiltrated into Congress for years because we weren't paying attention. We must never let that happen again.
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    Good! The CM thugs need to be smacked-down until they can behave like adults and not bratty children.
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    “false allegations”????
    What’s with the tip-toeing?
    You mean LIES?

    Repeat after me:

    “and finds the ad's LIES "inexplicable."

    “and finds the ad's LIES "inexplicable."

    “and finds the ad's LIES "inexplicable."
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    The only thing coming out of the right wing, fasacist, republican party and their christian fascist enablers these days is crap and BS!
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Dumb ass liars all sound the same to me.
  • Smarmy · 1 year ago
    I believe that McCain has no hope of getting any votes come November and this is the miserable old man's way (by making scurrilious statements) of staying in the news.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "we will still give you coffee and donuts"-AP to McCombover
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Sorry, but one petal does not a rose make. Mitchell -Greenspan has much to do to get back on the books as an impartial journalist. She may have been taught the skills of obfuscation by the maestro. Remember who was at the helm when the financial disasters were created and who could see nothing going wrong until after the disasters struck. These two have much to atone for.