The Huffington Post Should Learn To Get Its Facts Straight
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Smearing And Sliming John McCain — Comments (13) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Contra this nonsense, there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the McCain campaign "stacked" its townhall meeting. Mayor Bloomberg is a registered Independent, not a registered Republican and both Mayor Bloomberg and other independent groups--in addition to people who (gasp!) support Senator McCain--got invitations. "Stacking," this ain't.
Incidentally, there is plenty of evidence to show that the McCain campaign welcomes disagreement and debate at its events. Here is one such bit of evidence:
And another:
There are a lot of other instances that we can cite, of course, but McCain didn't gain a reputation for being very, very, very good at town hall meetings by "stacking" his meetings. Quite the contrary; he's gotten his reputation by taking tough questions and answering them very well.
You know, between this and the lies that McCain wants to keep a war going on in Iraq for 100 years and the lie that McCain doesn't care at all about the welfare of the troops, this is all getting pretty disgusting. I think it is high time that more than just the Blogosphere call shenanigans on the efforts of the Obama campaign and its surrogates to regularly misstate and mislead when it comes to McCain's actions and statements. It would also be nice if someone could ask the Huffington Post, the Obama campaign and Howard Dean why it is that they seems to think that the only way to beat John McCain is to lie about him.
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That you think that two wrongs do indeed make a right.
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." --Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a saying that will become familiar to RS posters when the new site comes up: "Be respectful, or be banned."
Just something to think about.
More of that transferance - Democrats accusing Repubs of doing what they themselves do - and which we DON'T.
Stacking the Townhalls -- haha, having watched 5 or more Repub Primary debates this election season, that is rich indeed.
Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
Wait a sec. You mean that President Bush's town hall / informational style events are open to everyone? That's news to me. Attendance is rigidly controlled by handing out tickets to individuals or groups which are known supporters. Try asking for a ticket as a registered Dem and you'll have a zero chance of getting one as an average individual. However, there is nothing wrong with this practice except for the possible issue of the taxpayer financed informational events.
On the other hand, it's certainly true that Bush crossed the line, at least to me, when his staff started refusing admittance or ejecting individuals from events who did have a ticket, who had done nothing disruptive, but solely because they weren't supporters. The Denver 3 I think is the most well known example since I think they won their court case. The were ejected by a paid staffer impersonating a secret service agent because the car they arrived in had a bumper sticker that indicated they weren't supporters. That's pretty bad.
McCain didn't deserve this, but your claim that R's don't manipulate the audience is clearly false. D's don't have a leg to stand on either since Hillary had some stacking of her own going on with planted, or at least suggested, questions which is clearly worse than controlling who gets a ticket.
compared to the millions of Dem cases of selective 'random audiences'. And not having studied the cases you are trying to argue with, I will not even stipulate to them as being relevant or accurate examples until I check myself.
Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
We seen how the big lies backfired against CBS last election cycle, it'll all come full circle once again here.
I'm sure if they wanted to have a debate with Fox News mods Obama would run for the hills, just like all the Dems did when Fox wanted one.
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Thought this would be as good as place as any to post this.
I've just found this website in the last year and read daily now, grew up a not so interested tattooed lower working class inner city (south philly) kid who only first voted because of enthusiasm for McCain, and in addition switched from Independent to Republican after becoming more informed/interested again sparked by McCain.
As far as TOWNHALLS, was in Philly this week for and I've seen the other candidates on tv and realized they seem hand select those in backgrounds, etc.
First thing that shocked me was when we approached I expected to be told where to sit, instead I walked up and asked the reply was anyone can sit wherever they want.
The second thing was how it was a pretty diverse crowd, races, dress, etc. and the fact that literally ANYONE could have honestly asked him anything and he did/would have answered, I can't imagine Obama ever doing so.
It was a real thrill. Also what I've been sharing with coworkers anyone that questions his age should see/hear him in person, it'd be put to rest immediately. (Oh and his wife is really a looker ;).
He won't debate on FOX news, he won't debate Hillary and now he won't debate McCain.
I wouldn't be surprised if McCain actually did have to stack a Townhall meeting since Obama is too afraid to show up.
Someone should tell Mr. "I'm going to bring the two sides together" that in order to do that, both sides have to be there.
"Huffington Post" and "facts" in the same sentence? Geez, I'm surprised the RedState server didn't crash in a fit of confusion when you posted that...
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The Huffington Post get so much attention given its continual disregard for the facts and true reporting? The pub. is simply a joke.
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Why pray tell? Facts don't interest those folks anyway. Straight, bent, crooked, up, down, top, bottom, charmed, strange --- its all the same to the left.
John
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and republicans never misstate or mislead comments made by democrats.
a pox on both their houses.