{"id":1301,"date":"2008-09-22T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2008-09-22T17:12:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:12:46","slug":"the-mccain-campaign-lies-from-lying-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/22\/the-mccain-campaign-lies-from-lying-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"The McCain Campaign: Lies from Lying Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0908\/13747.html\">This<\/a> just makes me smile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liars.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/1284017\/\">call <\/a>was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>[A]s he went on to list a series of stories he thought reporters should be writing about Obama and Biden, in almost every instance he got the details wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gosh. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just makes me smile: Sen. John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liars.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record. But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}