McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.”

[DogPoundPup]

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.

The errors in McCain strategist Steve Schmidt’s charges against Obama and Sen. Joe Biden were particularly notable because they seemed unnecessary. Schmidt repeatedly gilded the lily: He exaggerated the Biden family's already problematic ties to the credit card industry; Obama’s embarrassing relationship with a 1960s radical; and an Obama supporter’s over-the-top attack on Sarah Palin when — in each case — the truth would have been damaging enough.

“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. :rofl: Damn talking points! :rofl:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13747.html

[rzemanfl]

1. Why don't they just stop fucking lying? The assholes. eom

[BumRushDaShow]

2. They are out of control.

:rofl:

[KittyWampus]

3. excuse me? "when - in each case- the truth would have been damaging enough"? WTF?w

politico is such a pile of crap.

There is no relevant truth to Ayers or Biden's son that can be considered damaging in any way by an objective person.

[ErinBerin84]

4. yeah, I took note of that line in another thread too

Ben Smith, politico's fake dem who always says stuff like "well, in fairness to McCain" and "in defense of McCain", trying to debunk Obama criticisms of McCain in an appearance of being "fair and balanced". I applaud them for this, but part of me just feels like the media is still going to cave and declare McCain winner of next Friday's debate before it even starts.

[Zenlitened]

5. Mission A-freakin-complished!!!

:lol:

McCain is on the defensive about LIES.

McCain... is he trustworthy? Is he honest? Is he really the straight-talker "we" once thought him to be?

Or is John McCain a liar?

:think: