CBS Edits Another Major Gaffe By McCain

So when John McCain cry's that the press is in love with Obama, Does he not factor in the fact that the media has actually given him pass after pass. Like this second omission by CBS of a major McCain gaffe. A gaffe that really highlights his lack of thought and lack of knowledge of the situation. He touts this foreign experience yet a consistently gets it wrong on many foreign issues. Gaffe after gaffe ignored by the MSM. Gaffe's I might add if Obama were to commit it, would be covered like the OJ trial.

CBS News omitted a second McCain falsehood:
his characterization of Iraq war as
"the first major conflict since 9/11"


On the July 22 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, while airing portions of an interview anchor Katie Couric conducted that day with Sen. John McCain, CBS News did not air McCain's response to a question in which he characterized the Iraq war as "the first major conflict since 9/11," apparently disregarding the war in Afghanistan, which Couric addressed in her question and which began in October 2001. As Media Matters for America and others documented, CBS News also did not air McCain's false assertion that the 2007 U.S. troop surge "began the Anbar Awakening" and instead aired spliced video of McCain's interview with Couric, expunging the false statement and tacking on a response he gave to a different question.

Couric asked: "Sen. [Barack] Obama also told me, Sen. McCain, that the money spent on those additional troops, on the surge, might have been more effective had it gone to Afghanistan or even to a better energy policy in the United States. What's your response?" McCain replied: "The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world." In fact, nearly a year and a half before the Iraq war, the United States initiated Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in order to "counter terrorism and bring security to Afghanistan." According to the Department of Defense, 554 Americans had lost their lives as a result of OEF and 2,257 had been wounded as of July 19.

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