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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Obama Speaks Before 200,000 While John McCain Rewrites History

When I say rewrites history I mean literally rewriting what has already happened. This and more great stuff in today's Countdown Recap. We have Obama in an impressive speech in Berlin. Also an excerpt of a Brian Williams interview with him right after, and I got to tell you it's great it's unscripted and it really shows how genuine he really is.

I guarantee anyone with any doubts about what his intentions are will or should be able to put them to rest by watching this. There is no wild blinking and awkward cackles like you see with John McCain, like a puppy waiting to see if hes done good. Instead today you saw a passion an unblinking, unwavering, confident discussion with the World on how we can all come together. It was unprecedented for a candidate of any type.

It is impressive I can tell you that. Sadly John McCain is breaking down. Slandering Obama in a sad attempt to get some attention. Saying he(Obama) would rather lose a war and risk our country's safety, than lose an election. Pretty much calling him a traitor. This from the man who promised no negative campaigning. He is pretty much starting out going as low as you can go. Well there is lots of other good stuff too, it's a good one...

Obama In Berlin, Brian Williams Interview.



Obama responds to McCains slander



McCain attempts to rewrite how the Surge started.



Duncan Hunter wants to shoot (himself) the endangered Wildabeast in Africa, and feed them to natives.



Robert Novak hits old man and leaves in his corvette.



Bushed! FEMA wants immunity, State Dept. tells employees in Germany they can't go to Obama speech.

The Countdown Recap

Voila!


Al-Maliki And Obama sitting in a tree, and a swoosh heard round the world, Oh and the White House lies become more blatant then ever...



McCain and his Iraq Issue



Obama over seas looking good so far...



McCain blames Obama for the high gas prices??...



Bushed! Coat Boy is Bush's new Deputy Chief of Staff...

Frank Rich Calls It On McCain's Economic Policies

Great article on McCain's economic knowledge.

It’s the Economic Stupidity, Stupid

By FRANK RICH

Published: July 20, 2008

THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the dust this week while they chase Barack Obama on his global Lollapalooza tour. Were voters forced to actually focus on Mr. McCain’s response to our spiraling economic crisis at home, the prospect of his ascension to the Oval Office could set off a panic that would make the IndyMac Bank bust in Pasadena look as merry as the Rose Bowl.
“In a time of war,” Mr. McCain said last week, “the commander in chief doesn’t get a learning curve.” Fair enough, but he imparted this wisdom in a speech that was almost a year behind Mr. Obama in recognizing Afghanistan as the central front in the war against Al Qaeda. Given that it took the deadliest Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul since 9/11 to get Mr. McCain’s attention, you have to wonder if even General Custer’s learning curve was faster than his.
Mr. McCain still doesn’t understand that we can’t send troops to Afghanistan unless they’re shifted from Iraq. But simple math, to put it charitably, has never been his forte. When it comes to the central front of American anxiety — the economy — his learning curve has flat-lined.
In 2000, he told an interviewer that he would make up for his lack of attention to “those issues.” As he entered the 2008 campaign, Mr. McCain was still saying the same, vowing to read “Greenspan’s book” as a tutorial. Last weekend, the resolutely analog candidate told The New York Times he is at last starting to learn how “to get online myself.” Perhaps he’ll retire his abacus by Election Day.
Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated on video by whining about “a nation of whiners.” The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Mr. McCain has been so dependent on Mr. Gramm for economic policy that he sent him to newspaper editorial board meetings, no doubt to correct the candidate’s numbers much as Joe Lieberman cleans up after his confusions of Sunni and Shia.

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N.Y. Times Rejects McCain Iraq Piece

All I can do is laugh about this...

N.Y. Times Op-Ed Page Rejects McCain Iraq Piece

Updated 3:55 p.m.
By Howard Kurtz
Prospective authors don't usually make a big announcement when their prose is rejected by the New York Times Op-Ed page. But John McCain's campaign is telling the world that the liberal opinion and commentary page turned down his submission on Iraq, just days after publishing a similar piece by Barack Obama.
The Obama article made the case that his administration could "safely redeploy" most U.S. forces from Iraq over a 16-month period. The McCain camp, sensing an equal-time opportunity, submitted its Iraq piece Friday.
"The success of the surge has not changed Senator Obama's determination to pull out all of our combat troops," it said. "All that has changed is his rationale. In a New York Times op-ed and a speech this week, he offered his 'plan for Iraq' in advance of his first 'fact finding' trip to that country in more than three years. It consisted of the same old proposal to pull all of our troops out within 16 months."
About two hours later, David Shipley, the paper's opinion editor, wrote:

I'd be very eager to publish the Senator on the Op-Ed page. However, I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written. I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft. Let me suggest an approach. The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.

It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory -- with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate.

Sounds like a pretty high bar.

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