Wash. Post uncritically quoted McCain accusing Dems of voting "against funding for our troops"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200709090006?f=h_latest

In a September 9 entry on The Washington Post's The Trail blog, staff writer Dan Balz reported presidential candidate and Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) statement that "Today, leading presidential candidates vote against funding for our troop engaged in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq." Balz added: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) both voted against an Iraq funding bill earlier this year," referring to their May 24 votes against a war funding bill that did not include a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But as Media Matters for America repeatedly noted in response to other media figures' uncritical reporting of similar attacks by McCain or his staff, McCain himself voted against an emergency spending bill that funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on March 29, which President Bush ultimately vetoed, citing its provision for a withdrawal timetable.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Does anybody care what McCain has to say anymore?

McCain is a an old geezer, defeated & bitter. When he offers these purely semantic jabs, they have no resonance, like the retelling of a stale joke.

[NNN0LHI]

2. He is teeing it up for Rudy who he is going to support when he drops out soon

The real story here isn't McCain. Its WaPo who seems to be assisting him in this endeavor.

Don

[pansypoo53219]

3. jeez.

his desire to be president has made him mental.

[Olney Blue]

4. McCain, please go home. You need to retire now.