McCain campaign over latest lies: ""We’re running a campaign to win"

[madfloridian]

...And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

The McCain spokesman just said they don't care about the media, and that they don't care about truth.

They are going to continue the attacks.

From First Read...more on those words and the complete press release from the Obama campaign which calls them out on the lies.

Wheels Come Off Straight Talk Express?

The Washington Post gave "four Pinnochios" to McCain's recent assertion on "The View" that Palin never took earmarks as Alaska governor. Then the Boston Globe reported that Palin didn't really travel inside Iraq as has been claimed. And Bloomberg News said that the McCain camp may not have been exactly truthful in estimating the size of its recent crowds. "Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming."

To top it off, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said this to the Politico about the increased media scrutiny of the campaign's factual claims: "We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Not surprisingly, the Obama camp has pounced on all this, issuing a memo to reporters entitled "Unraveling the myth of the Straight Talk Express." The memo argues, "Since naming Governor Palin as their vice presidential nominee, the McCain campaign has distorted, distracted, and outright lied to the American people about her record in a desperate attempt to hide the fact that a McCain/Palin Administration would be nothing more than a continuation of the failed Bush policies of the last eight years."

Here is another bit from the memo which is listed in full at the link.

Indeed, today alone we learned that the McCain campaign’s claim that Governor Palin traveled to Iraq is a lie. In fact, she didn’t cross the Kuwait border. We learned that the McCain campaign is desperate enough to tell the press phony crowd numbers, which they falsely attributed to local elected officials and the United States Secret Service. And we learned that despite Senator McCain’s claim that Governor Palin is a fiscal conservative, spending actually increased during her brief tenure as Governor.

Here are the facts. Governor Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere, requested hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks, never visited Iraq, increased spending as governor, increased taxes as governor, and was about as successful selling that luxury jet on eBay as the McCain campaign has been selling her reputation as a reformer. Oh yeah, and the gas pipeline she touts won’t be usable for at least a decade, if it’s completed at all.

The memo concludes: "While the media is slowly starting to call the McCain campaign on their dishonest tactics, McCain’s staff boasts that they don’t care. As a McCain spokesman told the Politico, 'We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.'"

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Of couse not, and we shouldn't expect anything but lies....

I'm concerned that these @-holes will once again cheat at the polling places. They're all trash. The other day I was nearly accosted by 2 people at a voter registration booth who asked me whom I was voting for and when I said "Obama" they started telling me I was wrong, that the commies were going to do this and that and the other, etc. I finally called them liars and now I'm thinking of reporting them to the mall they were located in.

[BlueIdaho]

2. So much for those precious family values!

They exhibit all the moral fiber of a bunch of serial killers.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Wow.

So they've basically announced that they don't care if their campaign is spewing lies and they don't care if the media is going to call them on it.

If I were in the media, I would look upon this as a direct challenge. McCain's people are basically saying that it doesn't matter what you do or say about us, our lies are more powerful than your reporting.

If I were in the media, I tear this arrogant putz a new one, in only to prove that journalism still matters.

[gordianot]

4. I wonder what they think they will win?

An electorate that is stupid enough to let them win or cheat their way into the Whitehouse deserves what they are about to receive.

Those who despise the GOP will continue to despise them. In time the division will become intolerable I suspect it is now permanent. I suspect there is a good reason why they are running a secessionist Vice President.

[madfloridian]

5. Not much left to win, I'm afraid.

They have destroyed so much already.