The VAULT is CLOSED on AmeriKa's shitty Zionist press, folks!
"McCain Gets History Of The Surge Wrong, CBS Doesn't Air Footage"
During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "surge" strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted "Anbar Awakening," in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country.
From the transcript:
Katie Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?
McCain: I don't know how you respond to something that is as-- such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history.
In fact, as Spencer Ackerman and Ilan Goldenberg have reported, the record firmly establishes the opposite: instead of being caused by the surge, the key signs of the Anbar Awakening occurred not only before that strategy was implemented, but before it was ever conceived.
Yet McCain's error was not seen by any CBS Evening News viewers. As MSNBC's Keith Olbermann noted (video below), "CBS curiously, to say the least, left it on the edit room floor. It aired Katie Couric's question, but in response, it aired part of McCain's answer to the other question instead." (Ironically, this edit came on the same day that McCain's campaign released a video mocking the media's "love affair" with Obama.)
The fact remains, however, that the military official cited by McCain, then-Colonel Sean MacFarland, described the Anbar Awakening in September 2006 -- four months before the "surge" was even announced -- noting that tribal leaders were "stepping forward and cooperating with the Iraqi security forces against Al Qaeda." Moreover, a military review written by MacFarland notes that his unit actually left Anbar before most of the surge troops arrived; his success in the region came between June 2006 and February 2007.
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And yet, McCain's camp has the GALL to COMPLAIN?
"McCain camp says media love Obama
John McCain's campaign, with some acid humor, is directly hitting what many critics see as the media's infatuation with Barack Obama, declaring that the media are "in love" with Obama.
"It's pretty obvious that the media has a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama. Some may even say it's a love affair," the campaign said in a statement (Boston Globe July 23, 2008)."
Hey, what about CBS covering up McCain's lies and ignorance, Globe?
How come THAT didn't make YOUR PAPER today, huh?
Yeah, just what I thought, you fucking wipe rag!!
Yeah, I AM TIRED of the BULLSHIT POLITICAL FOOLEYS, you bet I am!!!
