TODAY’S PAPERS: A SUMMARY OF WHAT’S IN THE MAJOR U.S. NEWSPAPERS. By Jesse Stanchak SLATE Posted Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, at 7:11 AM ET The Bush administration announced Friday that it would seek to stabilize the financial sector by buying up the distressed mortgages that were at the heart of last week’s market [...]
Archive for September 20th, 2008
20 Sep
Commentary: Palin’s office now run by McCain campaign
The following is an editorial in Saturday’s Anchorage Daily News. Is it too much to ask that Alaska’s governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska’s governor? A press conference Thursday showed how skewed Alaska’s relationship with its own governor has become. McCain-Palin campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan announced that Todd Palin [...]
20 Sep
The Media Call McCain and Palin on Their Trail of Lies
Newsday. Posted September 15, 2008. A rundown of 25 responses in the media to McCain and Palin’s bald-faced lies from the past two weeks. The McCain campaign has spent the last couple weeks making claims and accusations of dubious accuracy, mocking independent fact checkers, and telling everyone who will listen that the “media filter” doesn’t [...]
20 Sep
McCain and Palin Are Trying to Take Political Lying to the Next Dimension
By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted September 15, 2008. McCain and Palin reach a new level of campaign dishonesty as they tell lies about their records and their opponent. But will they pay a price? Despite all the chatter about how “historic” Campaign 2008 has been, it is the McCain-Palin ticket that it is truly [...]
