On Meet The Press today, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said that former Bush adviser Karl Rove is "pretty disingenuous" when he claims that he never lied to McClellan about his involvement in the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity. McClellan also says Bush should have stood by his word and fired Rove for being involved.
On Meet The Press this morning, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) criticized President Bush for threatening to veto his 21st Century GI Bill, saying that no president in history has ever vetoed benefits for the troops.
On Meet The Press today, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman slammed the chants of "Drill, Drill, Drill" at the Republican National Convention, saying that it was the equivalent to "if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding "IBM selectric typewriters, IBM selectric typewriters."
In an interview on ABC's This Week, Sen. John McCain denied that he used the word timetable when he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer "I think it's a pretty good timetable."
On MSNBC's Hardball last night, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan described how the White House sends talking points to commentators on Fox News.
In a press conference today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said the United States has the resources to fight in Afghanistan, despite the surge in Iraq. His statement is contradicted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who says Iraq is preventing him from sending the troops he needs to Afghanistan.
In an interview with CNN, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice gave a less than enthusiastic endorsement of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience.
http://thinkprogr ess.org/2008/09/08/r ice-palin-experience /
On NBC's Meet The Press this morning, vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill said that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't just not answer her questions, she "blew me off."
http://thinkprogr ess.org/2008/10/05/p alin-ifill/
In an interview on the Mike Gallagher Show today, McCain health care architect John Goodman claimed that he was just being tongue-in-cheek when he claimed that there are no uninsured people in America because people can go to emergency rooms. Goodman later claimed that it's not true that there are millions of Americans without health insurance.
On Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol argued for the President to veto the bipartisan expansion of SCHIP, saying "whenever I hear something described as a 'heartless assault on our children,' I tend to think it's a good idea."
On Fox News Sunday today, former Bush adviser Karl Rove dismissed non-partisan fact-checking organizations that have been calling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) out for his campaign lies. "You can't trust the fact-check organizations," said Rove.
On his radio show on Monday, Bill O'Reilly disputed Robert Lichter's research on media coverage, despite praising the exact same methodology in the past.
In her interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin falsely claimed that Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." In fact, Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
On Meet The Press today, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee apologized for making a joke about Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) dodging a gunman at the NRA convention. Huckabee also noted that other politicians had made poorly received off-the-cuff jokes, like when John McCain sang "bomb Iran," which Huckabee said he thought was funny.
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