The post-Veep debate wrap-up piece gets nit-picky, and, even though not written by Ron Fournier, does some McCain tire swinging to boot.
For example, it’s NOT erroneous for Biden to talk about McCain’s planned $4 bil tax break for oil companies just because its part of a plan for larger, more broad-ranging corporate tax breaks.
The only “issue” on Biden’s side where the story is true is that Biden did support Gramm-Leach-Bliley. The story claims that President Clinton has said GLB has kept the financial world meltdown from being even worse.
I don’t know if that’s true, that Clinton said that. If so, it shows both that he’s still a clever liar and that he’s fixated on his “legacy.”
As for Palin, the story doesn’t even mention all her gaffes, errors and lies. The most egregious one that’s missing is her misstatement on Afghanistan, claiming Gen. McKiernan (not McClellan, gaffe No. 2) favors a “surge.”
On the Biden side, it missed his biggest lie of all — that you can be opposed to gay marriage and claim you’re not discriminating against gays — a lie shared by all four candidates of the duopoly.
Beyond that, and contra Josh Marshall at TPM, the REAL tire-swinging it that the MSM is in the tank for the duopoly.
Was McKinney, or Bob Barr for that matter, interviewed after the presidential debate?
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