McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding

FactCheck | Sep. 10, 2008 (News Analysis)

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said "completely false" attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.

They call the ad "Fact Check." It says "the attacks on Gov. Palin have been called ... Full Story »

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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

Another excellent piece of journalism pointing out the distortions in a McCain add that implies Obama is the source of lies concerning Palin.

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

FactCheck rightfully takes after the McCain/Palin/Rove campaign for lying and distorting a FactCheck story. It gets a little involuted when the fact checker is lied about and has to fact check the use of their own stories. The duplicity of the campaign is underlined.

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by Denise Clendening - Oct. 1, 2008

Factcheck follows up with how the McCain campaign is lying about their findings and called McCain's new ad false and misleading. McCain altered Factcheck's finding and deliberately lied in their new ad. This Factcheck story also documents how the McCain campaign twists a quote from the WSJ. How will the McCain campaigh twist this article to blame their lying on Obama ?

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