The McCain campaign’s $42,000 lie

[babylonsister]

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The McCain campaign’s $42,000 lie
Posted August 12th, 2008


The McCain campaign has unveiled two ads in four days, both with the same false claim. The ad from late last week insisted that Barack Obama “voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000.” Yesterday, McCain’s campaign argued that one of the “perks” of joining the Obama “fan club” is “a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year.”

The McCain campaign, as it surely knows, is blatantly lying. But as long as McCain’s gang feels compelled to keep repeating the lie, we might as well go to the trouble of explaining why it’s wrong.

Oddly enough, it was none other than Fox News’ Chris Wallace, interviewing McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Sunday, who helped expose the charade.


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The point, obviously, is to give voters the impression that if Obama’s elected, anyone who makes more than $42,000 — up until fairly recently, the McCain campaign had said $32,000 — should expect a tax increase.

But there’s that pesky reality. Obama didn’t vote to raise taxes on those making $42,000, it’s not part of his economic plan, and he would actually offer a bigger tax break to the middle class than McCain would.

Not that reality matters, of course, I just like to set the record straight.

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[Median Democrat]

1. The Truth Broken Down In Pictures

Here is McCain's tax cut from the WSJ, which FAVORS HIM:

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And here is a great analysis of who is hurt and who is benefitted by each candidate's tax cuts:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html

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[ryanmuegge]

2. The ad will be effective, regardless of substance. Most people don't watch enough news to know it's

a lie. It's too late now for the media to change the average American's internalized view that Democrats will raise taxes at all income levels after thirty years of screaming this right-wing talking point 24/7.

I'm not sure how Obama counteracts this. People are skeptical about political ads and don't really believe them (especially if they say something that contradicts their conventional wisdom). He can't count on the cable news media to tell the truth. He needs to attack this head-on at his campaign rallies and cite specific numbers and sources maybe, but logical facts don't seem to matter to Americans either when it comes to affecting voting habits. This is probably not going to work to Obama's advantage no matter what.

[FrenchieCat]

3. The sad situation is that our media talking heads refuse to tell

viewers that John McCain is Lying.

That's the part that gets to me.

[AtomicKitten]

4. McBush is hoping if he repeats it often enough a la Goebbels, it will seem true enough.