Mccain in the Membrane (Part 1) Keith Olbermann reveals lies of Sarah Palin and John Mccain

A new daily feature on Countdown with Keith Olbermann: The most outrageous or false statement made by John Mccain, Sarah Palin, or on behalf of their campaign.
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This nation is facing real challenges on the economy, health care, jobs and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are significant differences between how Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain would address them. But McCain's recent campaign ads suggest the most vital issues are whether Obama wanted to teach sex education to kindergarten children and whether he derided the Republican's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, by talking about lipstick on a pig.

McCain's straight talk has become a toxic mix of lies and double-speak. It is leaving a permanent stain on his reputation for integrity, and it is a short-term strategy that eventually will backfire with the very types of independent-thinking voters that were so attracted to him.

The sex education ad says that Obama supported "comprehensive sex education" for kindergarten children. Graphics then appear with a voice-over saying: "Learning about sex before learning to read?"

The facts: Obama, while a state lawmaker in Illinois, supported a measure to provide older students with age and developmentally appropriate sex education. Younger children, such as those kindergarten-age, would be taught "age-appropriate" things such as how to protect themselves from sexual predators. The legislation was widely backed by the state PTA and the Illinois Public Health Association. Parents could choose to opt out of any instruction for their children.

As to the lipstick-on-a-pig controversy: Obama used the phrase, which he had used before, to attack McCain's claim that he'll reform Washington while retaining the policies of President Bush. After using the lipstick-on-a-pig phrase, Obama said, "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."

McCain's...more than willing in this election to put his name on campaign lies. The leader who says he would rather lose an election than lose a war now risks losing his reputation in an attempt to win the White House.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article808444.ece
I know the MSM demands that we move on from the fact that someone who could be president next January has a list of public lies so extensive and indisputable that the McCain campaign has still not been able to rebut or even address any one of them, while fencing her off from the press and refusing to hold a press conference to clear the air on so many murky questions of fact that get to the core of whether this person is fit to be vice-president or president.

So for the record, let it be known that the candidate for vice-president for the GOP is a compulsive, repetitive, demonstrable liar. If you follow the links, here is the proof. I repeat: proof:

- She has lied about the Bridge To Nowhere. She ran for office favoring it, wore a sweatshirt defending it, and only gave it up when the federal congress, Senator McCain in particular, went ballistic. She kept the money anyway and favors funding Don Young's Way, at twice the cost of the original bridge.

- She has lied about her firing of the town librarian and police chief of Wasilla, Alaska.
- She has lied about pressure on Alaska's public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
- She has lied about her previous statements on climate change.
- She has lied about Alaska's contribution to America's oil and gas production.
- She has lied about when she asked her daughters for their permission for her to run for vice-president.
- She has lied about the actual progress in constructing a natural gas pipeline from Alaska.
- She has lied about Obama's position on habeas corpus.
- She has lied about her alleged tolerance of homosexuality.
- She has lied about the use or non-use of a TelePrompter at the St Paul convention.
- She has lied about her alleged pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla.
- She has lied about what Alaska's state scientists concluded about the health of the polar bear population in Alaska.

You cannot trust a word she says. On anything.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-twelve-odd.h...

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[Neishapour]

Isn't that great to live in the US? No, not because people like McCain and Palin can actually run for public office but, simply, because people like Keith Olbermann have the freedom to reveal these well-fed political creatures' true nature to the rest of us! If our Founding Fathers were here today they would have been appalled by the way our country has been run during the past several years. All power to Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Mathews. Wake up America! We deserve better.

[hkjonus]

Had the Media had these new found balls in 2004, we could have avoided the past 4 years of misery!!!

[BuhlzI]

Kool-aid Keith is digging deep on this one.

I guess spending 8 years in POW camp doesn't count for anything.

[Paulwhoisvegan]

I hated the special olympics!

[STPdemon]

Neishapour you should just vote for Van Jones in 2012. What a turd you are.

[STPdemon]

09/09/09 date:

Anybody else sick of Obama throwing McCain a complement during a big speech as an example of his so-called

bi-partisanship? Fact is Obama is way, way more leftist than most of the folks who voted for him believed him to be.

[mexdodge]

yah, im an independent as well. I just know that I prefer Keith's truth to Fox News' truth. But yea, as long as we vote for either party, we're in a hole.

[KeithOlbermannTruth]

This brings back memories!

[MyceliaProductions42]

Agreed! I'm independent because I see virtually NOTHING noble, much less objective, about journalism anymore. It's all about "Hooray for our side and boo for the other!"

Jesus...wake the fuck up people, and smell what BOTH SIDES are shoveling.

[malcolmvanatta]

Kool-aid Keith called himself a journalist! 5:51ha! If msnbc had a similar segment involving the Obama campaign you might think there were some objectivity left. Journalism is DEAD! That is why the Blogs do so well....at least you know what you are getting.

[DrMcClown]

lol usualy when people are trying to prove that someone else is stupid they state a fact, so that they dont look stupid themself. Nice try dude but if your gunna be ignorant do what O'riely does, make something up :P

[benmols]

ha....

oh you wernt joking?

uh oh....