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By David Sessions - Politics DailyPolitifact.com, a fact-checking Web site owned by the St. Petersburg Times, has selected its No. 1 political falsehood of the year: Sarah Palin's assertion that the Democratic health care bill would create "death panels" -- government bodies with authority to decide whether individual citizens should receive medical treatment. The site said that 61 percent of its readers also voted Palin's "death panel" remark as the No. 1 political lie of the year. The remark was one of Palin's first political statements after she announced she would resign as governor of Alaska on July 3, and catapulted the ...
Memo Shows Pelosi Lied About Interrogation Briefings
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been scrambling to counter Republican charges that she was aware of – and did not object to – the use of specific enhanced interrogation techniques by the CIA on suspected terrorist detainees. Pelosi said last week that while she was present at CIA briefings on the interrogations, she was not told that techniques such as waterboarding were in use.Now, however, intelligence documents have come to light which show that Pelosi has been lying about her knowledge of the use of enhanced interogation techniques. According to records of the briefings ...
McCain Defends Palin (Weakly)
By Dave - Politics DailyAOL NewsJohn McCain said Tuesday that Sarah Palin did not damage his presidential bid, and he dismissed as typical campaign sniping anonymous criticism aimed at her following their crushing defeat."I'm so proud of her and I'm very grateful she agreed to run with me. She inspired people, she still does," McCain told Jay Leno during an "Tonight Show" interview taped for broadcast Tuesday night. "I couldn't be happier with Sarah Palin."Asked by Leno about griping about Palin from unidentified McCain operatives in the days following the election, the Arizona senator said, "These things happen in ...
'Words' - New McCain Video
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyJohn McCain's campaign has released a new web video mash-up. It's simply Barack Obama, in his own words, all in context. The one minute video is titled "Words." It takes on Obama's most recent public lie. ...
McCain Caught Lying: 'Didn't Vote for Bush'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyArianna Huffington has been vindicated. Last week on her site, she recounted how--at a Hollywood dinner party at the home of Candice Bergen--John McCain and his wife Cindy boasted that they hadn't voted for George W. Bush back in 2000. McCain denied Arianna's account via a spokesperson, who said, "consider the source." Well, The New York Times and The Washington Post went out and found a couple of sources of their own--People who were also sitting near the McCains, and heard the remarks. From the Post:In separate phone interviews, Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff--both of whom starred in ...
Bush Lied! ... ?
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailySeveral years ago, a few anti-war extremists on the far left of the political spectrum began chanting "Bush Lied" regarding WMDs in Iraq. Most Democrats quickly distanced themselves from such accusations. Not only were the claims arising from fringe groups with whom no respectable politician would confess association, but nearly every high-profile Democrat had made similar statements: However, proving the political wisdom that "if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it," politicians opposed to Pres. Bush eventually began to take up the ...
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