Oh No! Say it isn’t so… McCain/Palin lead Obama/Biden by 20 points in NC…

per factcheck.org

McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding
September 10, 2008
Those attacks on Palin that we debunked didn’t come from Obama.
Summary
A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama’s attacks on Palin “absolutely false” and “misleading.” That’s what we said, but it wasn’t about Obama.

Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to “dig into her record and background.” The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to “dig dirt.”
Analysis
We don’t object to people reprinting our articles. In fact, our copyright policy encourages it. But we’ve also asked that “the editorial integrity of the article be preserved” and told those who use our items that “you should not edit the original in such a way as to alter the message.”
McCain-Palin 2008 Ad:
“Fact Check”

Announcer: The attacks on Governor Palin have been called “completely false”…”misleading.”

On screen: Photo of Obama, FactCheck.org banner, “‘completely false’ . . . ‘misleading’ 9/0/08″

And, they’ve just begun.

The [Wall Street] Journal reports Obama “air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers” into Alaska to dig dirt on Governor Palin.

As Obama drops in the polls, he’ll try to destroy her.

Obama’s “politics of hope”? Empty words.

McCain: I’m John McCain and I approved this message.
Less Than Honest

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said “completely false” attacks on Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.

They call the ad “Fact Check.” It says “the attacks on Gov. Palin have been called ‘completely false’ … ‘misleading.’ ” On screen is a still photo of a grim-faced Obama. Our words are accurately quoted, but they had nothing to do with Obama.

Our article, posted two days earlier, debunked a number of false or misleading claims that have circulated in chain e-mails and Internet postings regarding Palin. There is no evidence that the Obama campaign is behind any of the wild accusations that we critiqued. There is no more basis for attributing these viral attacks to the Obama campaign than there is for blaming the McCain campaign for chain e-mail attacks falsely claiming that Obama is a Muslim, or a “racist,” or that he is proposing to tax water. The anti-Palin messages, like the anti-Obama messages, have every appearance of being home-grown.
Digging for “Dirt”

The ad also quotes the Wall Street Journal as saying that the Obama campaign “air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers to dig dirt on Governor Palin.” That’s also a distortion. The Wall Street Journal opinion article did not say that the Obama team was there to “dig dirt.” It said they were there do “dig into her record and background.” Maybe the McCain-Palin campaign knows something we don’t about what’s in Palin’s record and background.

The full quote, from an item by conservative columnist John Fund, dated Sept. 9:
WSJ’s John Fund, Sept. 9: Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29.
Fund said the opposition researchers were mainly interested in a controversy surrounding Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan. Monegan has claimed he was dismissed because he wouldn’t fire a state trooper who was in a divorce battle with Palin’s sister; the Alaska Legislature is investigating whether Palin acted properly. Fund also stated that the Palin family has accused the trooper of “using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson, drinking in his patrol car and illegally shooting a moose.”

Now, that’s “dirt.”

Footnote: At least one Obama spokesman has repeated an allegation that we debunked in our story, that Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan. However, the Obama campaign was not the originator of the claim.

–by Brooks Jackson

Moderators,

Must we wade through Guest’s xerox’d brain washing propaganda on every post?

Please delete these repetitive posts and ask Guest to engage in a dialogue not SPAMalogue…

WasHRCnowPalin it appears that RottenPeach has lost whatever credibility she has left.

All I see from her is blah, blah, blah….she lost her meaning after her 150th word.

no spark,

reading is challenging huh?

those you want the truth read. those who want to display ignorance don’t. take your pick

Peach – it all depends on what each individuals opinion and interpetation is. You are only reading and believing what you want to see.

As with all poltitics you can spin, spin, sping.

Why is Obama sending a team of 30 attorney’s to Alaska for?

The numbers don’t lie and Obama is losing in the polls which means a majority of people are not buying into his rhetoric.

You’ll never understand that becasue you can not reationalize with the irrational. You are so blinded by the D behind your name you can not see this man for what some of see him as an empty suit.

That’s right – the PUMAs are saying to the Obama followers – “but the emperors is wearing no clothes” – followed by gasps.

Egad – typing to DARN fast – it should state rationalize with the irrational.

Need spell check please!

HEY PUMA GREAT JOB!

Just want to share a life altering book….”Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.

PLEASE READ IT ASAP…and pass it on. YOU MUST READ THIS GREAT WORK (very well referenced)….IT WILL ASTOUND YOU—–I PROMISE! YOU’LL SEE HOW THE POT IS CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK WHEN THE OBAMISTAS CALL CLASSICAL LIBERALS FASCISTS AND RACISTS.

I’m a classical liberal black woman that believes that we women have been used and abused (just like the blacks) for way too long by the radical progressive movement to further their Fascist agenda (yes, hold your hats….Fascism was born from leftist ideology…not right wing in the least). I also strongly support free speech, free thought, freedom of religion, and freedom to vote.

But today under Obama, just as under the father of Fascism, Pres. Wilson, in the early 1900′s, these freedoms are under terrible threat by crazy loony radical progressives (made up of mostly “educated” young adults who, according to several new studies have the lowest collective civics/history/politics/geography knowledge score in the history of the USA ….but think they are brilliant!!! What little idiots; they obviously don’t know that hubris always gets you in the end!!

The fascist element of cooperation with powerful huge industry is glaring at us but we don’t see it because we’ve been brain washed to think fascism is a right wing phenomenon when this is absolutely wrong …Obama has the whole “Information and high-tech Industry” in his pocket and is already using it to perpetrate voting fraud on the American people. By the way, Stalin started this label of “fascist” if anyone who disagreed with him and it caught on with the Progressive wing in the USA since after the war.

We must protect women and keep that misogynist home-boy out of the White house. Also, we must protect free speech …and fight the Fairness Doctrine devised by some Radical progressives. If not, we are TOAST….and Christianity, the Bible, and any opposition to their insane ideas will be synonymous with “Hate Speech” crimes.

We women finally have an opportunity to put a real woman in the White house…..one that is not a radical feminist yet she’s accomplished and one that acts, looks and feels like most of us do. I’m sick of being represented by clipped haired, man-hating, child-hating, and angry wannabe-man. I’m definitely not suggesting Hillary is one of these but she certainly does play the game at times. I’ve had enough of being discounted as a really woman if I disagree with “party line”. Feminism should be about exalting the value of all types of women; traditional or not!

FactCheck.org is owned and run by Annenberg Foundation.

U.S. radical terrorist bomber murder, Bill Ayers appointed Obama as Chairman of Annenberg Foundation/Challenge in 1995-2001.
FactCheck is “verifying” everything in favor of Obama aka Barry Soetoro, including his Certificate of Live Birth (not to be confused with a REAL Birth Certificate, which is required to be eligible to run for President of the USA).

It’s no big secret.
I think they get off by knowing that the evidence has been on their website all along; http://www.factcheck.org/contact

Proof positive that there is a very large group of people whom you CAN fool ALL of the time.