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A Tale of Two Attacks on Campaign Volunteers

Disgrasian | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Campaign Volunteers, Campaign Volunteer, Ashley Todd and Obama Attacker, Mccain Hoax, Crooks and Liars, Barack Obama, Ashley Todd Mccain, Ashley Todd, Nancy Takehara Attacked, 2008 Campaign, Nancy Takehara, Ashley Todd Mutilation Story, Ashley Todd Hoax, Voting, Canvassing, Attacks on Campaign Volunteers, Maurita Bryant, Politics News
Disgrasian

As we said before, committing physical violence against someone who holds a different opinion from your own is reprehensible and not to be tolerated under any circumstances.

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Keith Olbermann Has A New Worst Person: Robin Hayes (R-NC)

Howie Klein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robin Hayes, Larry Kissell, Political Extremism, Cafta, North Carolina, Lies, Congressional Elections, Election 2008, Politics News
Howie Klein

If any member of Congress personifies a willingness to sell out his constituents' economic interests for the sake of special interests, it is Robin Hayes.

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Why Obama Can't Shake McCain

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Rumors, snopes.com, John Kerry, Lies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George W. Bush, B Arack Obama, Michael Dukakis, AP Poll, Myths, Presidency, John McCain, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

That nagging AP poll hints at something that has bedeviled the Obama campaign from day one, and that's the inability to put McCain away. How could that happen?

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Top 10 Lies, Non-truths, Half-truths, Stretches, Reaches and Fibs Proving McCain Will Say Anything to Be President

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Lies, Fact Check Mccain, Lies, John McCain, John McCain 2008, Sarah Palin Lies, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politifact, Clean Coal, Obama Sex Education, Acorn, John McCain Earmarks, Barack Obama William Ayers, Ayers Weather Underground, Smear Tactics, Political Slander, Earmarks, 2008 Presidential Race, $3 Million Projector Obama, William Ayers, Politics News
Brett Ashley McKenzie

This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.

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Can You Catch McCain-Palin Getting It Right?

Carl Pope | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Green, Nuclear Energy, Lies, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

The McCain-Palin ticket gets basic facts about energy and the environment (and their own records) wrong so consistently that I'm issuing a challenge to illustrate the point.

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Did McCain Compare Obama to a Nazi?

Jairus Grove | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Karl Rove, Obama, Smear, Keating Five, Home News
Jairus Grove

Yesterday, John McCain, rather than responding to the factual claims regarding his involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, engaged in the lowest form of...

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Mavericks to Nowhere

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, God, Sue Katz, Sarah Palin, Truth, Politics News
Dr. Susan Corso

Sarah Palin makes vague claims to have gay friends -- and no one can find any of them anywhere, alive, dead or in print.

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Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Dominion Theology, Lies, Palin, Evangelical Voters, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

As we close in on the 2008 election, the increasingly desperate Republicans will do what they have learned to do best: court the sincere but misinformed Evangelical voters by lying to them.

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Jed Lewison

Frank Demolishes O'Reilly: "Your Stupidity Gets In The Way Of Rational Discussion"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Lies, Barney Frank, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, Politics News

Barney Frank just demolished Falafel Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor." It was a thing of beauty from the start, and peaked when Frank told O'Reilly that...

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John McCain: Suffering from Irregularity

Justin Frank | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Mccain Senile, Bi-Polar Disorder, Deregulation, Lies, George W Bush, Lying, John McCain, Politics News
Justin Frank

John McCain lurches from plan to plan, from statement to statement, from action to action. His behavior reminds me of my most manic patients when I w...

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Most Americans Know Very Little About Political Issues

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Campaign Smears, Lies, Bush Administration, Bush Policies, John McCain; Barack Obama; Obama Biden; Sarah Palin, Propoganda, Political Culture, Election 2008, McCain Sunni, Democrats, Mccain Spain, Republicans, Home News
Dawn Teo

Few of my fellow Obama supporters understand what's happening outside of their own circle of friends and families. But Democrats can't win an election by thinking that all voters have the information that we have.

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FactCheck.Org Skewers McCain Again for Misrepresenting Obama Tax Positions

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

Read More: US Economy, Lies, John McCain, McCain Distortions, Economy, John McCain Campaign Ads, Anti-Obama Ad, McCain Campaign Strategy, Factcheck.org, Home News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose When John McCain is confronted on his lies and distortions, his mumbled code word is "business" -- Corleone-like, head lowered. ...

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Republicans Prefer Fiction

Christopher Fink | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Bear Stearns Bailout, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Stock Market, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, GOP 2008, Recession, Republicans, Foreclosure Crisis, Home News
Christopher Fink

When the financial crisis hit this week, the media swiftly declared that dealing with such a reality helped Obama and the Democrats. McCain was on the defensive because actual issues, such as the economy, had taken the spotlight away from pigs with lipstick.

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Sarah Palin, by the Numbers

Daniel Kurtzman | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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Daniel Kurtzman

Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don't. Her record speaks for itself: 2007: the year in which Sarah Palin first obtained a passport (Source) 312: th...

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9/11 and the GOP's False Sense of Security

David Quigg | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, John McCain, Richard Clarke, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, 9/11, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, John Mccain Terrorism, Politics News
David Quigg

Our safety depends on us acting together. And our shared action depends on a basic shared understanding that it is far too soon to claim "never again."

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Limbaugh Claims Obama Faked Books And Life

John K. Wilson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Lies, Rush Limbaugh, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Smears, Limbaugh Obama Books, Limbaugh Smears, Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Post Empiricism, Limbaugh Facts, Obama Dreams of My Father, Limbaugh Say Anything, Home News
John K. Wilson

Limbaugh says Obama "hasn't lived a life long enough to write two chapters," let alone two books and that the books were "written to hide and disguise who Obama is." Limbaugh's listeners no doubt believe every word.

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How Obama Should Respond to McCain's Lying (Part II)

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lying, Afghanistan, Iraq, John McCain, Barack Obama, Lies, Mccain Lies, Politics News
Paul Abrams

The strategy of tying a culture of lying to failed policies tears asunder the connections McCain-Palin lies are making with the electorate.

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More Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Please

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Vice President, Lies, Experience, Jane Swift, Face the Nation, Joe Biden 2008, Drugs, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mccain, Obama, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Bush, Bush Doctrine, Lilly Ledbetter, Domestic Policy, 2008 Campaign, Equal Pay for Women, Ireland, Bob Schieffer, Cliffs Notes, Napolitano, Surrogate, Trial Lawyers, Women, Alaska, John McCain, Wasserman Schultz, Campaign Ad, Transcript, Bridge to Nowhere, Equal Pay, 2008 Elections, 08, Lie, 2008 Election, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, Foreign Policy, Double Standard, 08 Election, Lobbyist, Iraq Kuwait, Elections, Oil Sex Scandal, 08 Campaign, Janet Napolitano, Sex, Palin, Barack, Honor, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Hillary Clinton, Truth, Bridge to Sell You, Schultz, Ledbetter, Schieffer, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.

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Alaska Does Not, In Fact, Supply 20% of the Nation's Energy

David Roberts | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Energy, Lies, John McCain, Alaska, Natural Gas, Sarah Palin, Politics News
David Roberts

This assertion from the McCain/Palin campaign is demonstrably false, based on U.S. government sources. It's been debunked several times. And yet they keep repeating it.

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Political Lies and American Democracy

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Swiftboating, Lies, Corporate Media, Lies in Politics, Mccain Lies, 2008 Election, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

One function of a free press in a self-governing society is to tell the truth, which is why those who embrace a strategy of political lying make a concerted effort to denigrate the credibility of the press.

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McCain Is No Longer A Knight-Errant, But An Errant Knight

Bart Motes | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Lies, Lies, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, John McCain Lies, Politics News
Bart Motes

Mark McKinnon quit the McCain campaign when Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination because of his respect for Senator Obama. Now we know why he felt the need to do so.

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McCain Campaign Lie Strategy -- Will It Work?

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Marketing, John McCain, John McCain Lies, Politics News
Dave Johnson

The McCain campaign is being called out on some of the lies they have been telling. The campaign spokesman says that they are in this to win and don'...

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Friday Talking Points [47] -- Our First Anniversary

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...

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A Man of Peace Pushed Too Far: Yelling "Liar" in a Crowded Theater

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Lies, Lies, Karl Rove, John McCain, Obama, Bullies, Democratic Strategy, Bush Liar, Hero, Movies, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, 2008 Presidential Election, David Axelrod, Westerns, Sarah Palin Lies, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

The people want a blockbuster in broad strokes, not a lengthy discussion of policy or a footnoted freakin' laundry list of the other side's missteps.

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Barack vs. the Bully Brigade, Part 1: Playground Politics at its Worst

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Populism, Rudy Giuliani, Rnc, Bully, Fred Thompson, Republican Convention, Bullies, Mccain, Republican National Convention, Barack Obama, Bully Brigade, John McCain, Sarah Palin Speech, Playground, School Yard, Socialists, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

If you were subjected to the whims of a bully or two in your youth, and especially if you're a parent today who frets for your kid's emotional safety,...

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