The clearest indication I have seen to prove that voting for McCain is the equivalent of voting for a third Bush administration is this video from the Larry King Show in 2001 that The Jed Report has put out on the web:

If this is how McCain thinks, then his judgment is certainly questionable.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Cindy McCain was caught lying about meeting Mother Teresa:

The latest embellishments come from the McCain camp. Cindy McCain has repeatedly referred to herself as an “only child.” This week came news that she actually has two half sisters, although apparently she had very little contact with them.

The McCain campaign had also put out the story that Mother Teresa “convinced” Cindy to bring home two orphans from Bangladesh in 1991.

Mrs. McCain, it turns out, never met Mother Teresa on that trip. (Once contacted by the Monitor, the campaign revised the story on its website.)

I've often stated, and I firmly believe, as I seem to be proven correct, that a lie repeated, may be accepted as fact, but the truth repeated, becomes self evident.

So what are we waiting for??
As the "Drill here! Drill now!" crowd repeat their pro oil meme daily in the MSM, and the pundits go all bobbly-headed in support of their misleading and insane ideas... as seen in this nauseating video...

I have a question:
When are we going to hear the facts and the truth repeated as often as these propagandists keep repeating their lies??? 'Cuz if not.... we all lose.  It really is that simple.

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Sir:
I have read the transcript of your speech before the VFW. I have seen videos of your delivery. The things you said were excellent, with one glaring exception. But your delivery was disappointing.

There were many moments when you sounded tentative, rather than forceful, as though you were involved in a debate society competiton instead of fighting for the future of this country. You were too calm, too smooth, too gentlemanly.When you were speaking of the way our vets are being treated, we should have heard righteous outrage in your voice, controlled, directed anger. It wasn't there.

But your biggest error? The way you spoke of John McCain.

Very intersting vid ironically exposing Fox news for its own "character and conduct." Found it on the social networking site liveleak. Expect the second half to be even better.

-As described by talking monkey"
"Fox News Channel aired the first of two presidential candidate documentaries called "Character and Conduct." First up: Barack Obama, whose documentary pretends really hard that it's not full of stereotypes and insinuations."

Brief Diary, but WTF?  Newsweek has this feature article (4 pages nonetheless!) to expose how Obama is distorting McCain's quotes and taking them out of context.

Why didn't he just say "No, we didn't hear anything?"

When asked if McCain overheard anything, Charlie Black, a McCain adviser who was with him at the time, told CNN: "We were in motorcade until 5:30 p.m. ET; then a holding room in another building with no TV."

CNN

Has the McCain camp denied getting information, or are they still sticking with the bizarro-world assertion that information cannot penetrate a secret service motorcade?

Sorry that this is so short -- I'll update with more if I can get some links and more information.

Much discussion on the boards and pages today about John McCain's, um, lenience with the truth at Rick Warren's little hoedown on Saturday night, how the senator appropriated a Solzenitzen story, how he claimed to have voted on every important energy bill, how his "cone of silence" was more of a phone-laden limousine, etc.

These discussions sent me to the Google with a simple search parameter:  "McCain, lies."  In .13 seconds, the search engine was able to supply 6.9 million matches.

Whether you're a parent, or a CIA interrogator, it's not that hard to notice when a statement has been pre-fabricated. Or, better yet, when someone lets slip that they know what has happened by using a phrase they shouldn't know someone else has used.

The cover story, if it is a good one, will be a simple explanation of the subject's activities as a straight-forward normal person, plausible even to his close friends, containing a minimum of fabrication and that minimum without detail susceptible to a check or ramifications capable of development. Its weakness may often lie in the subject's abnormal precision about certain details, especially when two or more subjects are using the same cover story.

McCain's abnormal precision of the details, coming below the fold...

This was initially going to be a comment on TomP's diary, but I decided to expand...

I think McCain would be a lousy president, but, as he is running for office in the 21st century, is doomed to have his statements gone over with a fine tooth comb by everyone with access to The Google and wikipedia.  Such is politics.

However, I am leery of hitting him on this.  Yes, maybe it's a lie put together by his handlers.  But there is a history of false memories among vets that needs to be added to the context here.

When asked about taxes last night McCain said the following:

"Lets give families a $7000 tax credit for every child they have, and lets give a $5000 tax credit to help them pay for health insurance."

Sounds pretty good, huh?

Yes, except that he is not actually proposing either of these "credits"

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Some people are asking "Who in the hell is Paul Waldman?"  

Mr. Waldman is the Special Projects Director for Media Matters.  For the past week he has been out there refuting and debunking the Corsi book as well as Corsi himself.

He has shown how crazy and pathetic Corsi really is by revealing his lies and previous writings and statements, the people behind the publishing of the book i.e. Mary Matlin, former aide to Dick Cheney, and how it got to be number one on the NYT bestseller's list (the bulk purchase of the book by conservative groups).

OK, so I was reading an Ari Melber article on HuffPo where he linked this video.

If you go to 2:10 into the video, you will see clearly that Sean Hannity asks THE QUESTION that should devastate John McCain's campaign (but hasn't yet).

Now, remember, this is Sean Hannity asking the question - so he's not some left-wing radical liberal...  

"I want to know ... you gotta explain this to me ... I'm just a regular guy, and I'm wondering, if you can't keep your promise to your family, can't keep your promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you lie about the affair repeatedly ... why should the American people say you say you're not gonna lie to them?  Why should we trust you?"

For once, I agree with Sean Hannity!

Sorry thin skinners, but Momma raised me to call it like I see it.

I just watched NBC evening "News" and Andrea Mitchell just "reported" on the upcoming democratic convention. FLIP

Crossposted at Strategy08.

Jerome Corsi's craptacular book is being widely criticized, but McCain seems to think his outrageous claims are hilarious.

The media is all abuzz about Jerome Corsi's hit job of a book on Obama. But a rising discussion ios the role of Mary Matalin in choosing and defending the book for her Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold Editions as a work of scholarship.

Timothy Noah at Slate has a great piece on Matalin and conservative imprints at major publishers. A money quote, literally:

This isn't to say that, through her Threshold imprint, Matalin is subverting Simon & Schuster's pursuit of profit to partisan ends. Quite the contrary. Simon & Schuster and the other big publishing houses have started conservative imprints, at arms' length and with noses held, because they recognize them to be a gold mine. The Obama Nation, the Times reports, will debut on its best-seller list this Sunday at No. 1. But part of the deal, clearly, is that conservative imprints aren't required to adhere to the same standards of truth as the grown-up divisions.

Why are these books such a gold mine? Why are these hack jobs debuting at No. 1 on bestseller lists?

Every time I turn around, there's a new ad from the shameless McCain campaign saying that Barack Obama is going to raise your taxes if you make 42,000 dollars a year. Well, this is a big, fat, bald-faced, Republican lie and John McCain knows it. Under Barack Obama's tax plan, your taxes are not going to go up unless you make more than 250,000 dollars. That is a quarter of a million dollars. I have made a little illustration (after the break) to show just how dramatic the difference is between the truth and a lie. My illustration shows the  difference between a stack of money that amounts to $250,000 and a stack of money that amounts to $42,000 and poses a simple question: