Shading -- or ignoring -- truth on the campaign trail

For weeks, John McCain and his campaign have made claims contradicted by reality: Barack Obama favors sex education for kindergartners and insulted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; Palin sold her state plane on EBay and turned down federal money for the "bridge to nowhere."

Obama has argued that McCain doesn't understand voter concern about the foundering economy and -- attention, Michigan voters -- has refused to support loan guarantees for the auto industry. Full Story »

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Dan Kennedy
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by Dan Kennedy - Oct. 1, 2008

Anyone who is following this campaign closely knows that the McCain-Palin campaign is engaged in the deliberate promulgation of lies - that is, knowing falsehoods. The author, to her credit, does offer more examples of McCain's dissembling than Obama's. But to suggest that there is even a remote similarity between the two sides amounts to a journalistic elevation of phony balance over accuracy and truth.

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