Comments on: How McCain Reconciles Lies With Honor

The New Republic: The Logic And Rationale Behind John McCain's New Sleazy Campaign Style

[xlib]

blustardad-yep, keating 5, one REpublican and 4 dems. As I recall, when one of the clinton got into hot water and an investiagation was done and they were cleared of any wrongdoing we were told to drop it. So, based on that, mccain was investigated by a bunch of dems and cleared of any wrongdoing.
Maybe you should bring up something more recent like say, rezko and his deals with the messiah. Like your messiah''s real relationship with ayers and dorhn. How about 20 years of listening, ops, he didn''t know wright was like that, I forgot. Yea, listening to 20 years of anti-American and white hate speech. Say, where was the messiah the years that aren''t mentioned in his biop.
Oh, do bring things up, please. That was fun.

[leftywriter]

watch FOX and you might open your eyes to baabaama''s lies and manipulative brainwashing. He can''t stand alone, he must have all of his criminal advisors telling him what to do! You say McCain has not honor? What has babblebamma done for this Country? What?

[observantx]

McLying has sold himself. It''s as simple as that. He wants to be POTUS so bad, he''s willing to throw away the honor he earned in the Hanoi Hilton.

Very sad and ultimately very poisonous for the country. "Country first?" Sorry, it looks like "Me first."

[bluestardad]

KEATING 5

JOHN MCCAIN

[billmel8er]

Case in point - Plamegate. Does anybody remember Plamegate? The details of the outting of CIA agent Valerie Plame by Karl Rove and *** Cheney were all over the internet for 2 months or more before anybody in the mainstream media said a anything about it.

I was astonished at how that played out and day after day could not believe how the mainstream media seemed to be purposely ignoring this issue.

[billmel8er]

As long as there are no standards for truth in broadcasting, this is going to continue. The first thing the neocons did was deregulate the media to allow the big corps to buy all the newspapers and radio and T.V. stations. Bush and the republican congress nuetered the FCC.

It used to be that the media had to give equal time to opposing viewpoints. No single entity could own more than one media outlet in a given demographic region. This "deregulation" enabled all the rest IMHO. Until this is fixed, every election will be like the last couple. Lies and smears and lies and smears.

The internet is the only thing that has saved us from being completely immersed in the neocon lie pit.

[billmel8er]

I had an incident at a truck stop a few months ago. There was this truck driver in line complaining about the price of fuel. He was ranting on about the liberals in congress, etc.

I asked him about what he thought the solution was and predictably he shouted drill drill drill. I was very calm, btw, and asked him why he thought that was the solution. Then he started going on about all the hate those liberals spew, etc. He was trembling with anger he was so livid.

So then I asked, can you hear yourself? I said, you are the only one spouting anything even resembling hate. He clammed up looking like a deer in the headlights as I think he was realizing the truth of what I said.

It probably only lasted until his next dose of Limbaugh, but that mentality is the mentality of the republican base. They believe what they hear. If a lie is repeated enough by those they listen to, they will simply accept it as gospel and begin repeating it themselves. And you can''t really blame them as they have essentially been brainwashed.

[inketolstoy]

Watch Warner Brothers'' "A Face in the Crowd" to see where Obama got his speeches from.

[jmurrieta11]

McCain has no honor. Problem solved.

[usclimey]

Posted by billmel8er - Good post.

There can be no honor in lies.

[usclimey]

This is an extremely dishonest column. CBS was grossly biased in publishing it.

The lies were told by this reporter, not McCain.

Posted by sean7phil

You know CBS also publishes NRO articles. NRO is essentially Rush Limpbore in print and we ALL know what that means.

[billmel8er]

This shows how rotten to the core McCain and these neocons are.

Sorry, but I dispise liars and cheats. These "people" are liars and cheats and criminals and traitors.

McCain himself is guilty of squandering the public trust.

Everything lie he tells about liberals and Democrats and Obama, it turns out that if you replace liberal with conservative and Democrats with Republicans and Obama with McCain in each sentence you will suddenly have a truthful statement. Try it sometime. Just listen to the rant and replace the words.

Bill Clinton once said that whatever they accuse you of, they are guilty of themselves. Bill surely didn''t lie about that!

[skysoldier75]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.

The video shows Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vkj-on3kfWuE&featurerelated

[doctor--o]

Very sad but true. The majority of Republicans care little about facts. They don''t care because they don''t know the facts. What they ''know'' is what they choose to believe. What''s more pitiful is all too often they become indignant when you point out the truth.

Moreover, it makes perfect sense to demonize the press. That way whenever some inconvenient fact comes up in complete opposition to the Republican fantasy world view you can blame the ''liberal media'' for some how ''making it up''.

I am no longer amazed by this repugnant behavior. It is the logical result of mediocrity.

[bluestardad]

KEATING 5

REPUBLICANS ARE ALWAYS TELLING BUSHIT!

THEY WONT CARRY 5 STATES!

[colvinatch]

No real news here, simply put the right wing nut jobs in this country believe what they choose to believe (or what Rush tells them to believe), truth be damned. It''s he mentality that has caused the financial meltdown: saying that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" all the while gutting regulation and destabilizing the banking system for the benefit of your Wall street donors, or how about this one: "absolutely we are winning in Iraq", all the while the insurgency that you insist doesn''t exist rages and more soldiers die. McSame is simply exploiting that with his base who actually believe and regurgitate this *** as if repeating it enough makes it true, never mind the facts.

[toby2957]

And so... it begins. The fall of the neocon regime. Bush and his cronies are on his way out, and is beginning to look like people are wising up on McSame.

Endless war.
Boundless corruption.
A wrecked economy.
Constant lies.
A weakening of our world standing.


That''s all it took. That''s all it took for enough American partisans to pull their heads out of their backsides long enough to understand that they were in trouble with Bush and the Neocons.

Maybe now we can get a few things done.

[marjuh]

even though this is an election campaign, we are facing a real problem with our economy which at this moment is a priority. there is so much rhetoric on both sides of the fence there is precious little critical thinking going on. this article is far from responsible reporting, full of complete bias and subjectivity. I am really disappointed in CBS for fronting this article, as I was with the comments made this evening by Katie Couric regarding what she thinks is "obvious" regarding John McCain''s motives for addressing the economic crisis this week. Most economists agree that it needs to be done this week. We all know who is running, we know they both want to win, the debate will take place. Delaying a few days could be vital in changing the direction of this crisis we face. Instead of us all fostering volumes of "leaders" and press won''t curb it, we can as individuals in our being more thoughtful. Could there be any room left in this public and country and those in power, including the press, for reason? Of course we have the capability, why in heavens name would we not use it? Our dialogue does not need to continue to promote hostility and angst.

[andor3]

McCain is simply a danger to America. He really believes he should not be held to the same standards of honesty and integrity as others, that he is special. Sound familiar? George W. Bush suffered from the same illness (and it is a mental illness, ask a psychologist). Palin seems to have it going on too.

[sean7phil]

This is an extremely dishonest column. CBS was grossly biased in publishing it.

The lies were told by this reporter, not McCain.