Lying McCain Watch; McCain Flack Attacks Obama Amid Campaign Suspension (updated)

More Fibbin'?

By Josh Marshall

Readers have been sending in reports all morning that John McCain's attack ads are still up in swing states around the country, notwithstanding McCain's puffed-up and vainglorious claims to have suspended his campaign to go to Washington and destroy the giant meteor hurtling toward earth save the economy. We are, as I write this, working the phones to confirm just what's up. In McCain's possible defense it can take a while to get ads down off the air. But we'll be getting to the bottom of it shortly.

If you see McCain's ads up, definitely let us know.

Depends on Definition of "Suspends"

By David Kurtz

I guess suspending your campaign doesn't including taking your talking head surrogates off the cable nets.

We'll have video soon of top McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer who was just on Fox attacking Obama.

Late Update: Doesn't preclude Pfotenhauer from doing live chat right now with Washington Times either.

Later Update: Latest McCain camp line, in response to question of whether debate will go on Friday with an empty podium: Obama can always debate Joe Biden.

Lying McCain Watch

By Josh Marshall

Lemme see, two of McCain's press spokespeople on TV attacking Obama; McCain attack ads up on TV across the country. This is the suspension? What did I miss?

The guy is literally out of control. At what point do his friends need to start discussing an intervention?

Despite "Suspension" Of Campaign, Two McCain Advisers Attacked Obama Today

By Greg Sargent - September 25, 2008, 12:00PM

McCain's suspension of his campaign apparently doesn't apply to his own advisers.

Despite McCain's claim that he's put his campaign on hold, two of them directly attacked Barack Obama in political terms on television this morning.

On Fox about an hour ago, McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer was asked about Obama's suggestion that the bailout deal appeared to be adopting some of his suggestions.

"We don't want to focus too much on that right now because we want there to be a resolution," Pfotenhauer said, a bit later adding:

"But this is maybe perhaps part of the pattern that we've seen before where Senator Obama would claim that the housing bill came out of his committe--and he didn't even sit on the committee. or that the stimulus package was his package and even his democratic leader said that it wasn't."

So McCain's adviser accuses Obama of falsely taking credit for stuff. Does that count as running a campaign?

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Late Update: Here's the video of Pfotenhauer on MSNBC:

(http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/despite_suspension_of_campaign.php">McCain Flack Attacks Obama Amid Campaign Suspension

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