McCain appeared on The View on Friday, and he was under fairly intense grilling by the hosts. In one segment --- well, basically McCain tried to justify the ads he's "approved" which are obvious lies. And to do so, he lied still further.
Joy Behar: "There are ads running from your campaign. One of them is saying that Obama when he said "you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig" was talking about Sarah. There's another ad that says that Obama was interested in teaching sex education to kindergarteners. Now we know that those two ads are untrue, they're lies. And yet, you at the end of it say you approve these messages. Do you really approve these?"
McCain: Actually, they're not lies, and have you seen some of the ads running against me?
Actually, they are lies, and perhaps if your campaign stopped using negative ads the Democrats could as well. We should campaign on issues, not lies. And it's a blatant lie by McCain to say they are not.
This video clearly shows that Obama was not talking about Palin.
This video clearly shows the lies that McCain is spreading:
His lame justification? "Have you seen some of the ads running about me?"
Barbara Walters then interjected:
You, yourself, said the same thing about putting lipstick on a pig. You yourself used the same expression.
McCain: When I was talking about a health care plan.
Walters: Yeah, but he talked about change; he wasn't talking about Sarah Palin.
McCain: Sen. Obama chooses his words very carefully. He shouldn’t have said it. He shouldn’t have said it. He chooses his words very carefully. And this is a tough campaign.
So, now his justification is that because Obama gave them a sentence that they can misquote, out of context, it's OK to lie about it? And also, this is a tough campaign, so it's OK to lie about it?
In 2000, I might have voted for McCain. This is not the John McCain I knew. He is an out-and-out liar and will say anything to get elected. He will also do anything, per his choice of Sarah Palin, clearly unqualified, for VP, simply because she has one chromosome in common with Hillary Clinton.
Watch the video, a little more than 6 minutes into it, to see the exchange.
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