McCain Campaign Lies to Media During Conference Call Complaining About the Media Calling Them Liars
You just can’t make this stuff up:
Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.
But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.
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“Any time the Obama campaign is criticized at any level, the critics are immediately derided as liars,” Schmidt told reporters.But as he went on to list a series of stories he thought reporters should be writing about Obama and Biden, in almost every instance he got the details wrong.
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Asked about the series of errors, McCain aides could not provide evidence to back up Schmidt’s assertions.One McCain aide, Michael Goldfarb, said Politico was “quibbling with ridiculously small details when the basic things are completely right.”
Another, Brian Rogers, responded more directly:
“You are in the tank,” he e-mailed.
I guess John McCain really has been talking to Karl Rove. The lies will never stop.
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