Time's Carney claimed new McCain ad -- which contains falsehoods -- is "[l]egitimate" and "entirely within bounds"
Time's Carney claimed new McCain ad -- which contains falsehoods -- is "[l]egitimate" and "entirely within bounds"
In a September 23 post on Time.com's Swampland blog headlined "McCain's Legitimate Attack," Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney wrote that "what's important" about Sen. John McCain's "new ad ... attacking [Sen. Barack] Obama 'and his liberal allies' for failing to lead in the midst of the current financial markets crisis" is that the ad is "entirely within bounds." Carney continued: "As I and others have said in criticizing some of the McCain campaign's false or distorted assaults on Obama, there are plenty of potential Obama weaknesses that McCain can fairly and legitimately try to exploit." In fact, contrary to Carney's suggestion that the new McCain ad does not contain distortions or falsehoods, it does, falsely claiming that Democrats have sat by silently in response to the current financial situation and falsely suggesting that Obama intends to raise taxes on American families in general.
