McCain is a LIAR!!! (CNN bends over for McSame)

Curator · 03-07-2008, 08:18 AM

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On the March 5 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer asked about Sen. John McCain: "[C]an he disassociate himself ... distance himself from the president?" After CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said it would be "[t]otally impossible," CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger responded: "[b]ut on the war, McCain has said over and over again, you know, 'I would have fired [former Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld.' " When Toobin interrupted, asking: "Did he call for Rumsfeld to be fired?" Blitzer said "Yes" and Borger agreed, saying: "He did. He did." Despite Toobin's further protestations, Borger said of McCain's purported call for Rumsfeld to be fired: "[H]e called for him to be fired while -- in the Senate," "Yeah. Oh, absolutely," "No, he did," and "[H]e said I think Rumsfeld ought to be fired, you know, a long time ago. Yeah." In fact, McCain did not call for Rumsfeld to be fired, nor did he call for his resignation.

If Blitzer and Borger were better journalists, they’d actually check to see if McCain’s claim was accurate before repeating the LIE for a national television audience, but my hunch is, they both think, McCain wouldn’t just make something like that up. He keeps saying it, so it must be true.

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On December 14th, 2004 Sen. John McCain said that he has “no confidence” in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, citing Rumsfeld’s handling of the war in Iraq and the failure to send more troops. McCain, speaking to the Associated Press in an hour-long interview, said his comments were not a call for Rumsfeld’s resignation, explaining that President Bush “can have the team that he wants around him.”

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Several months after Bush fired Rumsfeld, McCain gave perhaps his harshest assessment. “I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history,” he told an audience in February 2007.

And at what point did the genius McSame finally realize what a catastrophe Rumsfailed was? So while all those people were being killed, month after month, year after year, McSame held his tongue while “one of the worst secretaries of defense in history” kept making a mess of everything, all with the full backing of his buddy Bu$h.

Rather than ask his buddy to find a new SecDef, McSame waited patiently for his turn at being president.

What a Maverick.

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