I did the fact checking of substance on a recent ad and McCain’s acceptance speech here and here. There is also an additional error which is receiving coverage today. While trivial it does add one more example of how there is little connection between anything John McCain says these days and the truth.
During her acceptance speech Palin said, “While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.” Palin was careful in her wording making this statement technically true. She did put the jet up for sale on eBay, but did not succeed in selling it. Instead she sold it thorugh an aircraft broker, at a $600,000 loss.
While Palin’s statement was technically true, those who listened might get the false impression that she actually sold the jet on eBay. One of those who apparently came to this conclusion was John McCain. Ben Smith reports that John McCain got the facts wrong when he introduced Palin saying, “You know what i enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — made a profit.”
Considering how little rational reason there is for choosing Palin (beyond shoring up his support among Republicans on the far right), it is sad that what he “enjoyed the most” is based upon two incorrect facts as she neither sold it on eBay or made a profit.
After watching the GOP convention, every speech I heard was seriously divorced from reality. It’s hardly just McCain who has problems with the truth crossing their lips.
As I watched every one of those lying mouthpieces, spanning over three loathsome, hate-filled, divisive days, I couldn’t help asking myself how they could lie so blatantly and with such aplomb. It was completely surreal. Dali had nothing on these people!
And that 9/11 tribute was nothing short of a propaganda film to start trying to win over the populace to bomb Iran. Notice that in that film, it was IraN who was responsible for 9/11…starting back with 444 days of hostage taking. And during that travesty, I asked myself, then WTF are we doing in Iraq?
People had to have seen through that. They just had to.