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Posted at 4:53pm on Jun. 11, 2008 LA Times: "Oh No You Dih Ent"

By absentee

The McCain campaign held a conference call this afternoon with reporters, discussing the latest example of Democrats hilariously trying to excerpt McCain in order to make him look out of the loop on Iraq.

I don't know who keeps telling the DNC this is a worthwhile effort, but it is sort of like putting David Beckham on TV to claim Carolina Panther Steve Smith doesn't know anything about football. You're not even talking the same sport Senator Obama. McCain is discussing a successful surge, you are discussing a quagmire. He's in 2008, you're in 1968. He's talking football, you mean soccer.

During the conference call, Senator Joe Lieberman said that it was particularly nasty to question whether John McCain understands the sacrifices of military families, considering his father, his own experiences, and his son's service.

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Posted at 7:11pm on May 16, 2008 Washington Post Lies, Video Doesn't

Demand a Retraction

By absentee

All day today the MSM and left blogs have been on the warpath about Hamas. The Golden Child feels he was slighted by the hated Bush and the enemy McCain, and the media acolytes will have none of it.

Jamie Rubin took point on their attack. In an article for the Washington Post titled "Hypocrisy on Hamas" and cutely subtitled "McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It," Rubin contended that Senator McCain has flip-flopped his position. News outlets and bloggers have been playing his edited clip from an old interview with similar degrees of delight.

As Soren Dayton noted earlier the story is a lot of hogwash, which the editors of the Washington Post let squeak right onto the page, either with no oversight, or worse, with oversight. Obviously Senator McCain's position remains now as it was then, no unconditional meetings with Hamas.

Well now the full video is available and Rubin's creative editing exposed. Watch the whole thing, you know, now that you can.

The editors have failed in their job. They've allowed this deliberate, lying hack job onto the page and demeaned the paper. Write to them now, and demand a retraction. Public, and with lots of mea culpa goodness.

FRED HIATT | hiattf@washpost.com

Patrick Hynes invited Hiatt on his radio show tomorrow. The secretary hung up on him. Nice.

Considering the reach this lie had, the backlash ought to reach as far. The Post Ombudsman should explain how something so completely, transparently opposite from the truth made it through their process. Maybe you ought to suggest that to her:

Deborah Howell | ombudsman@washpost.com

While you're at it, you might point out they are still promoting the article all over the site.

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