Your Lying Eyes

Daily Kos
by georgia10
Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 10:55:02 AM PDT

The McCain campaign just can't help itself:

Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Senator John McCain has drawn some of the biggest crowds of his presidential campaign since adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to his ticket on Aug. 29. Now officials say they can't substantiate the figures McCain's aides are claiming. [...]

In recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin's attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign.

The McCain campaign cited a fire marshal as the source of the "23,000" figure. But the fire marshal "said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it."

And according to the article, in another incident, the McCain camp claimed "10,000" people showed up for Palin's first public appearance, citing the Secret Service as the source for that figure. But, as the article notes, the Secret Service never gave any information like that to the McCain Campaign.

In lying to make Palin look like a "celebrity" (because being a "celebrity" is ok if you're a Republican), the McCain campaign just adds to its growing credibility problem, raising the question again and again--is there anything that John McCain's campaign won't lie about to win this election?