| Last Friday we reported here that McCain’s Pennsylvania spokesperson fed local reporters a highly incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on the McCain volunteer well before the facts were in, telling reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s face stood for Barack.
The McCain campaign has now denied the story on two separate occasions, faulting TPM’s reporting on it. “The liberal blog post” has “no basis in fact,” a McCain spokesperson has now told Channel 4 in Pittsburgh, in a reference to our story. Before that, McCain national spokesperson Brian Rogers denied the story to MSNBC, claiming sloppy reporting by the Pennsylvania reporters. Let’s be as clear as possible here: Two separate news organizations in Pennsylvania are on record saying that McCain’s Pennsylvania spokesperson gave them the incendiary version of the story. Either those news organizations independently decided to lie and smear the McCain campaign in identical ways, or the McCain campaign is lying in its denials. |
Pelosi’s Remarks on McCain’s Latest Tactics:
“In the final weeks of the campaign Senator McCain has intensified his fear tactics by calling one-party control ‘dangerous.’ He certainly did not object when Republicans were in charge of the White House and the Congress for six of the past eight years.
“Senator McCain has also changed his tune on my Speakership. In July, Senator McCain said that I am an ‘inspiration to millions…I respect Speaker Pelosi’ in a role that is ‘in many ways…more powerful than the president’ and that I am ‘one of the great American success stories.’
“The American people are looking for solutions to serious challenges our nation faces. Democrats will work in a bipartisan way to restore the American Dream by growing our economy, establishing our energy independence, increasing access to health care and higher education, and work toward responsibly ending the war in Iraq, all while restoring fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go budget discipline.
“That is why the American people are ready to elect Barack Obama as the next President of the United States and greater Democratic majorities in the Congress.”
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