{"id":17,"date":"2008-09-12T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-09-12T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:54:13","slug":"spreading-lies-mccain-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Lies:  McCain Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say that that I&#8217;m surprised that the McCain campaign has resorted to lies and distortion to scare and deceive American voters&#8211;this is the Republican party that <a title=\"Boston Globe on the Anatomy of a Smear Campaign\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/articles\/2004\/03\/21\/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign\/\">launched a smear campaign against McCain himself<\/a> back in 2000 when it looked like he might defeat Governor Bush.&nbsp; The deceptive tactics that McCain has employed&#8211;chronicled and debunked in this video, show just how low he&#8217;s willing to stoop.&nbsp; These ads all from the &#8220;straight talk&#8221; express.&nbsp; <a title=\"Wikipedia:Doublespeak\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doublespeak\">Doublespeak<\/a>, is more like it.&nbsp;&nbsp; <object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IH0xzsogzAk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/object><br \/>\nAmerica deserves better&#8211;needs better leaders than what we&#8217;re getting from McCain and his doublespeak campaign.<br \/>\nCredits:  Video is from: <a href=\"http:\/\/bravenewfilms.org\/about\">Brave New Films<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/taking_responsibility.html\">Larry Lessig<\/a> inspired me to get the word out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say that that I&#8217;m surprised that the McCain campaign has resorted to lies and distortion to scare and deceive American voters&#8211;this is the Republican party that launched a smear campaign against McCain himself back in 2000 when it looked like he might defeat Governor Bush.&nbsp; The deceptive tactics that McCain has employed&#8211;chronicled and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,42,40],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-41","tag-campaign","tag-election"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}