More lies from McCain. This time about crowd estimates. So much for "straight talk". It's all bullshit. They are on the verge of some serious trouble. I have a real sense that the media is fed up with the serial lies coming from the McCain campaign. The thing is, they're lying because they think the media are patsies and will simply regurgitate whatever lie McCain gives them. And once upon a time, that might have been true. But McCain has now pushed the lies far beyond the exaggerations and half-truths of normal politics. This is new territory McCain has entered, and the media may finally be fed up with it. It's going to be very interesting to see if Americans care or not about a man who would rather lose his honor than lose an election.

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McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials

By Lorraine Woellert and Jeff Bliss

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.

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

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.


G-Man, you run an old quote where I praise McCain's honesty. I spent the past day showing that this simply isn't the case anymore. Whether it's Rove doing the talking or his campaign I don't know. I do know that at the end of every commercial I hear John McCain say that he approves of the lies. So I have to reevaluate him based on new data. So yeah I used to think of him as basically honest once upon a time. But given his response to the Keating 5 scandal, I wouldn't say he was a "straight talker". More like a reformed politician. It's too bad he devolved into what he derided and bemoaned though back when it was aimed at him by the Bush campaign. Even going as far as hiring the very people who were making all sorts of baseless slanders and smears against him. Anything to win, eh G-Man?? THIS is why the guy has no honor or even any self respect. He's going to embrace the very people who pulled the black illegitimate baby crap at his family?? Where's his dignity?