McCain Makes Stuff Up

in the months ahead, there's urgency for American voters to figure out whether John McCain is the maverick "straight-shooter" of his usual press clippings or a sanctimonious phony who's just masquerading as the guy who tells it like it is.

Is John McCain like George W. Bush, someone who has learned that the mainstream news media - ever sensitive to accusations of "liberal bias" - is hesitant to call a prominent Republican politician a liar, ... Full Story »

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Robert Vermeers
4.5
by Robert Vermeers - Oct. 1, 2008

Trying to think like a McCain supporter I am challenged to find any fault with this article. Way back when he made his first bid for nomination by the Republican party I believed in the man and wasn’t put off by an article in a well known magazine that detailed the warts and all of McCain’s personality. This article seems to advance the idea that McCain is guilty of all kinds of shenanigans. Then it presents a modicum of objectivity by asking whether McCain is a bad guy or a good guy. That’s the only way I could grade it as high as I did on fairness. The author leaves it up to the reader to make the judgment.

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