McCain's continuing abject lying like a conman was evident in today's interview with Tom Brokaw on Meet The Press. While there were many distortions and lies spewed from McCain's piehole, there are two particular lies that he uses in all of his speeches now as well as the ever-the-deceptive liar Sarah Palin.
McCain continues to lie about Obama's tax plan affecting those who make $42,000 a year. This lie has been debunked several times and McCain, a compulsive lying hack, continues spewing it, now with a stiff smile over the usual pained grimace. He's been doing this particular antic since last August, where Factcheck is referring to various McCain ads:
The ad is plain wrong about higher taxes on working families. In fact, Obama's economic plan would produce a tax cut for the majority of American households, with middle-income earners benefiting most. As for "years of deficits," exactly the same claim could be made about McCain's program. It's unlikely either Obama or McCain would balance the budget, and both are projected to increase the debt by trillions.
We've already reported on at least three other ads, in both Spanish and English, from Sen. John McCain's campaign that distort his rival's tax policy. The ads claim that, for example, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama would raise taxes "on the sale of your home" and that he has a "history of raising taxes" and that he wanted to raise taxes on "families" making just $42,000 a year.
Claims like these have led us to say that McCain's campaign is engaging in a "pattern of deceit" when it comes to describing Obama's tax plan. This most recent ad fits right into the template.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/a_new_stitch_in_a_bad_pattern.htmlMedia Matters exposes Brokaw's laziness when dealing with McCain's LIE about Obama's health care plan for small businesses:
Brokaw did not challenge McCain's claim that Obama plan would "fine" small businesses that do not offer health insuranceDuring the October 26 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tom Brokaw did not challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that under Sen. Barack Obama's health care plan, "Small-business people who have employees without health insurance, that he is going to fine them if they don't have, have the insurance policy that they want, that Senator Obama wants them to have." In fact, while Obama has proposed requiring large businesses that do not provide employer-sponsored health coverage to pay a percentage of their payroll into a National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans purchase private health insurance, small businesses would be exempt. Obama also has proposed a refundable Small Business Health Tax Credit for small businesses that do provide employer-sponsored health care.
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