Newsweek’s Alter: ‘McCain should stop lying about his opponent’

Newsweek’s Alter: ‘McCain should stop lying about his opponent’
Posted August 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am


Two weeks ago, it seemed Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter had just about had it with John McCain. The columnist said he’s “misread McCain,” who, it turns out, is “a surprisingly immature politician” who may not be “ready to lead.” Alter’s piece concluded that McCain had “mortgaged his precious personal honor.”

But underlying Alter’s argument is that McCain is still a good guy who’s been led astray by irresponsible advisors who’ve led him astray. McCain’s ugly campaign is “out of sync with the real guy,” Alter said.

In his new column, Alter takes McCain to task for “making stuff up about Barack Obama,” and this time, Alter doesn’t make excuses for the Republican nominee.



The litany is no doubt familiar to those watching the campaign closely. McCain lied about Obama being responsible for gas prices. Then about Obama’s treatment of wounded U.S. troops in Germany. And then again about Obama’s tax policies.



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He's got to start the refrain that McCain is lying about him.

When your opponent lies about you, it's imperative to call him out for lying. Make his lying the issue. If you can prove your opponent lies repeatedly, it will undermine his chances in the election.

came real close to calling McBush a liar. He was interviewed by a journo from the CBN; saw it on CNN.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/obama-rested-an.html

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He was focused and blunt in his attacks on his opponent, three times stopping just short of calling McCain a liar. Of McCain’s call for offshore oil drilling, Obama said, "He's not telling you the truth about what it's gonna take to free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil." Obama zeroed in on McCain’s opposition to alternative energy tax credits and added, "Then he's got the nerve to stand up there on television and talk about how he believes in alternative energy. It's just not true!"

And in some of these "honesty" attacks, was Obama even throwing in subtle -- or perhaps not so subtle -- reminders of McCain's advanced years for good measure? Near the beginning of his remarks, he asked, "Are you gonna have somebody who's going to tell you the truth about how we're gonna change America, or somebody who's gonna run the same old tired campaigns that have been run every few years?" He continued, "Basically what John McCain has done is he's hired the same old folks who brought you George W. Bush."

and/or "stop insulting our intelligence" and/or "start taking responsibility for your campaign"

to paraphase a great truman quote.

just let everyone know that McCain is lying.

Young folks don't go fight and die
Just so McCain can cheat and lie

has offended several journalists in the past two weeks. The best example is, of course, Andrea Mitchell. Journalists are pack animals during political campaigns, and at this point, the pack is starting to dislike John McCain and those he surrounds himself with.

The problem is that the people who employ these journalists, and who actually call the shots for the corporate media, favor any republican candidate. Thus, when they give assignments, they also are making demands. And that is why the growing dislike for McCain will not be as evident as fair-minded people would prefer. But the attacks on Mitchell, etc, created wounds, and these wounds are becoming infected.

It's douchebags like you, who have given McCain the benefit of a doubt for the last 20 years.

People like you make me sick.
We could have written all of the attack pieces that McCain has launched against Obama 6 months ago, no matter who the GOP selected as their next candidate would have been.

Do you think Guiliani wouldn't have been lying like this if he had been their candidate?

Did you really think it was this hard to figure out Rove's playbook?

Did you watch the last 2 presidential campaigns?

Or were you trying to look at this through the prism of a reporter and not through Alice's looking glass?

I mean it IS working.. he has the lead now..

The media is not calling him on it.. If I were him I would continue to lie..

Those 100% false tax ads McCain is running are being ignored by the media. Even on MTP this weekend, a McCain surrogate repeated the charge and David Gregory did nothing to correct him.

I'm glad Alter is finally convinced.