McCain Gets Erratic When Called Out on Robocall Hypocrisy

Fox News Sunday, 10/19/08

WALLACE: But Senator back, if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said--

MCCAIN: They were.

WALLACE: And you said the following: "I promise you I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic." Now you've hired the same guy who did the robo calls against you to, reportedly, to do the robo calls against Obama and the Republican Senator Susan Collins, the co-chair of your campaign in Maine, has asked you to stop the robo calls. Will you do that?

MCCAIN: Of course not. These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family and about certain aspects that -- things that this is -- this is dramatically different and either you haven't -- didn't see those things in 2000.

WALLACE: No, I saw them.

MCCAIN: Or you don't know the difference between that and what is a legitimate issue, and that is Senator Obama being truthful with the American people. But let me tell you what else I think you should be talking about and the American people should be talking about. In the debate the other night, I asked Senator Obama to repudiate a statement made by John Lewis, a man I admire and respect and have written about that connected me and Sarah Palin --

WALLACE: This is the congressman, civil rights leader.

MCCAIN: Civil rights leader, American hero. That connected me and Sarah Palin to segregationists, to the campaign of George Wallace, and even alluded to the bombing of a church where four children, four children were killed, and I asked him to repudiate that statement. I have repudiated every statement made by any fringe person in the Republican Party. And it has come up from time to time, and it probably will. The fact that Senator Obama would not repudiate that statement I think is something the American people will make a judgment about. That robo call is accurate. Its totally accurate. And there is no comparison between it and the things that were done and said in South Carolina.

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[seanisrandom]

OBAMA OBAMA!

[Kisinkona]

he sounds like a McCain infomercial...so glad this crap is over...now this country can move forward and it will be a win win situation for everyone....Obama is a smart man and we haven't had a smart man in office since Clinton....

[philberz]

i used to have a lot of respect for McCain, he's just a joke now

[Stairc]

Well, I just lost all respect I had for Mccain. Major, major, major, major blunder. I actually liked the guy before this. Now, fuck him.

[p3snooper]

McCain = two-faced lying sack of pig shit.

[snoopyd80]

What the f*ck does RoboCop have to do with John McCain?

[mhc4124]

FOX NEWS has always had its own agenda, and I think that that is to exploit America's social and economic problems. To what end I do not know, nor will I extrapolate from their apparently schizophrenic nature. What I do know is that the purpose of FOX News, as defined by its actual affect, is to fuel and channel the irrational fears of modern day Americans. This, though I do not support, I must commend for its potency, albeit not, perhaps, intentionally done.

[davidennett]

I like Wallace.. he asks tough questions .. to democrats and republicans

But, in this case, I do agree with McCain ... Bush's robocalls were awful... they accused McCain of fathering an African American child out of wedlock...when in actuality his wife has adopted the young girl from the Third World.

Bush's campaign new that she was adopted but made these accusations anyway.... McCain's calls in 2008 may have been questionable but at least they asked legitimate questions.

[1990Logan]

and who says Fox News is a Republican channel?

[lonerook860]

Agreed. They also need to detach their image and associations from the Christian right. Many people equate religious and racial bigotry with republicanism now, and Fox News certainly doesn't help.

Republicans will bounce back. At the moment, the democrats have provided the necessary objectivity and change to the country, which is good. Obama will hopefully be a good president :)