AP Pushes McCain Spin On 100 Years Comment

It seems the AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him during the 2008 presidential campaign. As noted earlier, what the McCain campaign is pushing for here is a standard in which any negative ad targeting McCain must be delivered with the McCain camp's own spin included in order to be within bounds -- a standard few politicians, to say the least, have ever been granted. And even though the political press has been highly indulgent of the McCain campaign on this issue, I don't think I've seen any news organization so egregiously buy into McCain's false statements as the Associated Press.

The AP article lede reads: "The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq."

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Comments

[dwillisno1]

I thought that Republicans did not believe in the fairness doctrine.

[dadw5boys]

ASK MC CAIN ABOUT HIS SUPPORT OF BUSH'S TAX BREAKS FOR AMERICANS BUSINESSES TO MOVE THEIR JOBS OVERSEAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!