Translating your liberal media on McCain

“McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence” = “John McCain is Lying his ass off”

McCain’s latest attack ad accuses Obama of trying to turn a visit to troops into a media circus — despite the fact that Obama planned to visit troops in Germany unaccompanied by reporters, cameras, or campaign staff. So how does the press report the untruthfulness of McCain’s scurrilous attacks?

McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence

For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true.

The essence of McCain’s allegation is that Obama planned to take a media entourage, including television cameras, to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany during his week-long foreign trip, and that he canceled the visit when he learned he could not do so. “I know that, according to reports, that he wanted to bring media people and cameras and his campaign staffers,” McCain said Monday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live.”

The Obama campaign has denied that was the reason he called off the visit. In fact, there is no evidence that he planned to take anyone to the American hospital other than a military adviser, whose status as a campaign staff member sparked last-minute concern among Pentagon officials that the visit would be an improper political event.

“Absolutely, unequivocally wrong,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in an e-mail after McCain’s comments to Larry King.

There’s plenty of evidence, however — the problem is the evidence all points to the fact that McCain is lying and — like his honorless predecessor — is using the troops as political pawns. Even after the “lack of evidence” to support the allegation, i.e., the falsity of McCain’s attack, has become clear, the word from the McCain camp is:

McCain’s advisers said they do not intend to back down from the charge, believing it an effective way to create a “narrative” about what they say is Obama’s indifference toward the military.

Got that? Johnny McStraightalk’s campaign believes that lying to the American People is an effective way to create a narrative.

At least the New York Times is starting to notice:

Like Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain confuses opposition to an unnecessary war with a lack of spine and an unwillingness to use force when the nation is truly in danger. Obviously, Mr. Obama is untested as a commander in chief and his trip was intended to reassure voters. But Mr. McCain is as untested in this area as Mr. Obama, and it is hard to imagine a worse role model than the one Mr. McCain seems to be adopting: President Bush.

Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an extension of Mr. Bush’s two disastrous terms. If the way Mr. McCain is running his campaign these days is an indication, Americans don’t have to wait until next January for the answer to that one.

Though early in the campaign, McCain is reaching the very lows Bush strived for, in terms of loathesomeness and dishonesty. I wonder how McCain’s illegitimate mulatto love child feels about that?