New GOP 'Maverick' AD repeats Palin's Bridge to Nowhere LIE.

HAT TIP to:
WaPo's Howard Kurtz: New McCain Ad Contains "Whopper"
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/wapos_kurtz_new_mccain_ad_cont.php

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By Howard Kurtz - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/08/claiming_the_maverick_brand.html

The Ad:


Analysis: John McCain is using this ad to try to reclaim the "maverick" label once routinely attached to his name, before he embraced the Republican right more tightly in seeking the GOP nomination. His new running mate, Sarah Palin, can also claim to have taken on her state's Republican Party as Alaska governor, although it is conservative media outlets that most often call her a maverick.

The Arizona senator has made a crusade of battling pork-barrel "earmarks," but the whopper here is that Palin opposed her state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere. She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures. Far from being an opponent of earmarks, Palin hired lobbyists to try to capture more federal funding.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/obama_campaign_new_mccain_ad_i.php

Here's the response, from Obama spokesperson Bill Burton, to McCain's new ad falsely claiming that Sarah Palin blocked the Bridge to Nowhere:


It's good to see the L-word alive and well. The question remains whether the same news orgs that debunked the original Bridge to Nowhere falsehood will aggressively stay on McCain and hold him accountable every time he and his campaign repeat it.

or else there is a penalty? That should make them more careful.

McCain and his Bush are just a cesspool of lies.