14 lies and counting

As soon as the debate ended Thursday night, the McCain campaign (more accurately, Michael Goldfarb) sent out a press release documenting the 14 lies Biden told during the debate. Well as time passes, even more come to the surface. Ace of Spades links to Jim Geraghty at NRO who gets the lie count up to 22. James Taranto at WSJ’s Best of the Web gets the count even higher;

Here is Biden, answering her in Senate-ese:

John McCain voted to cut off funding for the troops. Let me say that again. John McCain voted against an amendment containing $1 billion, $600 million that I had gotten to get MRAPs, those things that are protecting the governor’s son and pray God my son and a lot of other sons and daughters.

He voted against it. He voted against funding because he said the amendment had a time line in it to end this war.

The acronym MRAP, for Mine Resistant Armor Protected, refers to a type of armored vehicle. Biden’s amendment appropriating $1.5 billion to buy MRAPs for the Marine Corps passed the Senate March 29, 2007, by a vote of 98-0. McCain was one of the 98 “aye” votes.

Biden gets defensive for no reason;

Then he noted that he is well off today and continued:

But the notion that somehow, because I’m a man, I don’t know what it’s like to raise two kids alone, I don’t know what it’s like to have a child you’re not sure is going to–is going to make it–I understand.

His voice cracked a bit as he said this; we thought he actually might start to cry. It was a moment of genuine emotion, but it was also, as we said, odd, for this reason: No one during the debate had said he didn’t understand “because he’s a man.” We don’t remember anyone saying it in any other setting either. The mere fact of Palin’s sex seems to have put Biden on the defensive.

On whether Obama would meet with Ahmadinejad personally, Taranto presents this interview response (please read the remainder of Obam’s comment, I abbreviated it);

At issue is Obama’s response to a question asked by a man named Stephen during the July 2007 CNN/YouTube debate:

Stephen: In 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that has lasted ever since.

In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries? . . .
Obama: I would.

Taranto writes that, in fact Biden agreed with Palin before he joined the Obama ticket;

Biden himself agreed with Palin back in 2007, as National Review’s Byron York reported:

Biden, who has emerged as the clear-eyed antiwar realist in the Democratic race, told National Review Online that the idea of a president meeting with Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and others was “naïve.” “World leaders should not meet with other world leaders unless they know what the agenda is, so you don’t end up being used,” Biden said.

There’s more at the link to BotW. There’s also some more buried in the Washington Post Fact Checker.

So I’m wondering where the media, the same media that makes a big deal about the parentage of the Palin children, the same media that beat Dan Quayle with his “potatoe” spelling, the same media that worries about the pronunciation of “Nuclear”, where the media is on fact checking Joe Biden…or Barak Obama for that matter.

Have they just decided to cast aside any appearance of impartiality and just gone in the tank for Obama, no matter what happens?

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