New Things McCain Has Lied About
It’s getting difficult to provide a separate blog post for each McCain Lie that winds up getting exposed. But:
- It appears their crowd estimates are made up and massively inflated.
- Also they lied and said Sarah Palin’s been to Iraq when in fact she hasn’t.
That second McCain Lie is a reminder of a vintage McCain Lie that I don’t think I’ve previously discussed wherein they tried to say Palin has been to Ireland when, in fact, she was on a plane that stopped in Ireland to refuel before taking off again. By the same token, I can tell you some time about my visit to the Memphis Airport and the new appreciation of Tennessee culture I acquired there.
UPDATE: You know, to be honest, I did gain something of an appreciation for Tennessee culture during my Memphis layover. The barbecue I had was far from the best barbecue I’ve ever had, but it was definitely the best airport food I’d ever had and definitely made me want to come back to Memphis sometime to try some not-in-the-airport eats.
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September 13th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
But Matt, her cock is sooo big.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
More lies here. I agree: it’s definitely at document-dump levels now. Too many to count.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
But, hey, at least Sarah Palin has met a foreign head of state. Here’s even a picture: http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=72
Guess her memory just isn’t that good. Wonder who else she has met that she doesn’t remember.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I noticed that you wrote three posts on different topics in the course of about 20 minutes. Do you write the post ahead and then edit them all at once. Or do you think them through over the course of a day and then write them all at once. If you developed your thoughts and and wrote these posts all in 20 minutes then you have been doing this too long.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
There you go again, linking to the notoriously far-left Bloomberg News.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
When they showed pictures of John Kerry windsurfing, that was irrelevant, ridiculous, and unfair – but Kerry actually was windsurfing.
When they called Obama a “celebrity,” that was obnoxious, but ultimately a matter of opinion.
But this goes beyond that. It’s flat out simple crap.
And if that somehow proves that they are “tough” because they can fling such stuff or that Obama is a “wimp” because it is being hurled at him – then we are reaching a point where political discussion is no longer possible.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
We need a website devoted exclusively to documenting Palin’s and McCain’s lies. Only way to keep all of this straight!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
“Since day one, this campaign has been consistent that we’re not going to win or lose based on crowd size but the substance of John McCain’s record,” [Tucker] Bounds said.
That’s a very grown-up attitude. So why lie about crowd size??
Y’know, I wondered why Palin forgot about meeting the President of Iceland. Even I met him when he passed through Anchorage. Guess I’m qualified to be VP!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Memphis barbecue is decent, but if you really want good barbecue, go to Texas. Barbecue is a religion in Texas. Memphis is about bourbon and blues. Check out Beale Street some time. Trust me, you’ll have a good time there.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Best BBQ in Memphis: Interstate BBQ. Avoid the Rendezvous at all cost.
Best BBQ in the World: Any from Kansas City EXCEPT for KC Masterpiece (basically catsup/ketchup).
Texas BBQ is just bull.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
You know, it occurs to me that there is another side to the narrative that a lot of Palin’s popularity is driven by cultural resentment. Assuming for the sake of argument that it is true, doesn’t just prove that the contempt that some people feel for those people is fully justified? I mean, even before this I had an almost bottomless contempt for those rubes and hicks, but this has just redoubled such contempt.
Of course, if McCain Palin is elected, it will quickly be a moot point, as we will all almost surely die in a rain of nuclear fire as McCain initiates or provokes a nuclear war with Russia.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Actually, Armstrong, the best BBQ in the world is pork BBQ from North Carolina. No tomatos at all.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Tut, tut man. Only the GOP can be hysterical this go around. Stay strong big fellow!
September 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Check out Memphis in May when you get the chance.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Good Airport Food? Really?
September 13th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
LarryM: “…we will all almost surely die in a rain of nuclear fire as McCain initiates or provokes a nuclear war with Russia.”
On the bright side, I thought the same thing about Reagan, and we’re all still tickin’, no Thunderdomes to be found.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Wow, a fire marshal doesn’t confirm a crowd size in Fairfax & the hysterical hyperventilators have finally hit paydirt! Omigosh—-we’re all doomed, cuz I believe the American people just might not pay attention to your bean counting.
North Carolina, fo’ sho,’ although I don’t know about the airport rendition in Raleigh Durham.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
“Actually, Armstrong, the best BBQ in the world is pork BBQ from North Carolina.”
Very, very true.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Don’t forget she just got busted for saying that Alaska provides the US w/ 20 percent of its energy….OOPS, it’s more like 3.5 percent, according to factcheck.org.
If she knows more about energy than anyone in the US as McCain says, we’re totally screwed!
September 13th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Daveinboca – I consider your candidate’s lying about crowd size to be relatively minor (although inflating by 300% is a little ridiculous).
What’s very concerning though is that candidate is willing to lie about the source of information and to put a lie in someone else’s mouth. That’s the kind of behavior that leads us into unnecessary wars.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
You really should lay off the BBQ. Fine line between blogger and blobber, and you and Marc Ambinder are skirting it.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
BBQ sucks. Give me friend Ipswich clams
September 13th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Has McCain sold his soul to the devil to gain the presidency? David Ignatius seems to think so.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202594.html
September 13th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Maybe he’s telling lies on purpose to get the media to quit fluffing him. Maybe internal polling told him that liberal media loved him too much and it was hurting enthusiasm so he needed to go piss in their face for a few weeks to get his useful idiot tribe properly motivated.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
The narrative that few want to mention is the fact that Palin provides a reason for those who are prejudiced to not vote against a non-white a man.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I dunno, I know old, racist, white people who like Obama. I live in Illinois so it’s hard to be objective this year, but I had an idiot tell me a joke like “If Obama wins, he’s going to give everyone a bunch of bananas”. I said “You like McCain then?” He said “Hell no, I’m voting for Obama”.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Sure, McCain’s a lying slimeball, and Obama’s lies are less egregious.
Well gosh. I mean, it’s not exactly like telling people that a politician lies has a lot of shock value. It’s like expecting a gaping jaw and a big “Really!” after you’ve told someone that lawyers and used car salesman lie.
It’s going nowhere, folks.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Well gosh. I mean, it’s not exactly like telling people that a politician lies has a lot of shock value.
I bet it would shock a swing voter. If not shock, push the right buttons on that particular animal.
You almost want to hope that those people exist. If they don’t and all the elections here on out are decided by mobilizing the two tribes then we are headed for a civil war. I mean that. Probably not the kind we saw in the 19th century but something more like Italy in the ’70s. Massive polarization where you don’t go into enemy territory for fear of your life. Tit for tat terrorism.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
kafka is clearly wrong. The emerging “narrative” (to use Matt’s term) in the media specifically asserts that McCain’s recent lying goes beyond the normal boundaries of political behavior. So the media is aware of the “everybody does it” defense, and are explicitly pointing out that McCain is repeatedly going well beyond what in fact everybody does.
Of course it remains to be seen whether McCain being branded by the media as an exceptionally bold liar, even for a politician, will in fact contribute to an electoral loss–indeed, only the actual election will decide that issue.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
On a clear night I can see the Moon from my deck; does this mean I’m qualified to be an astronaut? Sarah Palin’s (and McCain’s) defense of her foreign policy credentials reminds me of the “No, but last night I stayed at Holiday Inn Express” ad campaign.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
It’s going nowhere, folks.
Translated into English, it means, “Mommy, make the bad liberals stop!” You’d think that by now the ‘Tards would have learned that this type of whining is an obvious tell.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Obama’s lies are less egregious.
Really? Which one’s do you mean, douchebag?
September 13th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Ladies and gentlemen your Republican Party…
Forum sells ‘Obama Waffles’ with racial stereotype
September 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
kafka, if you didn’t pay attention in 2000, that’s your problem, but the reality is that there was a cohort of voters who found the candidate’s honesty the decisive issue, and these voters told exit pollers that they found bush more honest than gore.
not because he was, of course, but because that’s how it was reported.
so if it’s reported this time that mccain is a lying sob and he picked a veep with the same characteristic, it might actually matter to these very same voters.
regardless, it should matter to every voter. hyperbole is one thing: flat out mendacity another altogether. mccain/palin are setting new records for flat-out mendacity: in a better world, mccain would slink from the field in disgrace.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Matt, at least you got off the plane in Memphis. Palin didn’t get off the plane in Ireland. So she missed the Irish air, one of life’s great pleasures.
She’s such a worthless lying moron.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
OK. So I am looking at the Sunday NYT. I see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp
Can you PLEASE stop crying about how the MSM isn’t covering the lies? The corruption?
Seriously, dude. You are starting to sound like some sort of lame-ass right-winger. It’s being covered.
Now, maybe people STILL won’t vote the way you want them too. But stop the crying and the tears and the whining.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Sam M, until we start hearing about mccain and palin’s honesty problems with the exact frequency we heard about gore’s supposed honesty problems in 2000, some of us have no interest in unilateral disarmament.
you have no idea what whining is….
September 14th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I used the Google to look up the Consol Energy Field, and the Wikipedia entry says it only seats 5,000. So even stuffing the field with people would probably not get you to 10,000 people, if you figure in a security cordon and stage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONSOL_Energy_Park
September 14th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Arguing beef vs pork BBQ is never going to get you anywhere. Different beasts.
I mean, even before this I had an almost bottomless contempt for those rubes and hicks, but this has just redoubled such contempt.
That’s a slightly harsh way to put it. I’d say, more gently, that if McAppalling wins, you should buy shares in Brawndo. Because it’s conceivable that every major media outlet could run from now till November with the phrase ’serial liars John McCain and Sarah Palin’, and still win. (Wingnut media bias whine plus my-preacher-told-me plus vote suppression plus a press stylistically hobbled when dealing with in-your-face lying.)
RIP, David Foster Wallace: we are in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:11 am
I’ll take you word for it on airport food. But the best airport beer is in Munich – they have an honest brewery on the premises.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Look, Kafka, McCain’s reputation as an honest straight-talker has been one of the twin pillars of his campaign story, along with his time as a POW. If the press really starts hammering McCain on his lies, that would hit hard. Also, remember the whole “Al Gore invented the internet” thing from 2000? Yes, people expect politicians to lie, but if he gets defined by those lies, that’s bad news.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:42 am
You went to Interstate BBQ and you deserve to treat yourself and get to their original location on Third Street. I stopped looking for a BBQ place in Memphis after finding Interstate — I didn’t want BBQ to be any better than that.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
the tacos and burritos at the El Paso airport are worth the trip too
September 14th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
If you are stopping in Memphis for some traditional food, ignore those trying to convince you to get Ribs. BBQ ribs are great but the real Memphis tradition is pulled pork sandwiches. The best place to get them is at one of the local fast food establishments. ‘Tops’ is the oldest chain and I think the best.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
As a Memphian, I’m always glad to see my beloved hometown get some good press, but can Memphis airport food really be better than that at Seattle-Tacoma? Halibut fish-and-chips in an airport – how can you beat that?
September 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Another vote for the Carolina BBQ. I’ve spent a couple years trying to make it myself. I’m getting there.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
In a sad event, the American people lost a hard-working patriotic FBI agent in the line of duty today. The FBI Special Agent Samuel Hicks was shot to death in Indiana Township while in the process of performing a federal search
December 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
GLENSHAW, Pa. – An FBI agent was shot and killed today while serving a warrant at a home near Pittsburgh. The agent, Sam Hicks, was shot about 6 a.m. in Glenshaw, about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, said FBI Special Agent William
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