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FactCheck.org smacks down McCain's Rezko ad


FactCheck.org: Rezko Reality


Selected quotes:

We find McCain's ad is careless with the facts and could easily leave a false impression....

It's untrue that Rezko got "$14 million from taxpayers" for himself, as the ad seems to be saying.

Moreover, the ad's claim that Obama wrote the letter as a favor to Rezko is without factual support.

Can support for a low-income housing project be a "favor" to the developer if the developer didn't ask for it? You decide.

As for that claim about Rezko helping Obama buy his house, well, we've dealt with that one before. ... McCain's ad... says Rezko "helped him buy his million-dollar mansion" by "purchasing part of the property he couldn't afford." That's true, but only because the seller wanted to sell the two parcels as a unit and the Obamas couldn't afford both. Rezko did not make a gift of any property to the Obamas. Furthermore, the fact that his wife sold her lot for more than she paid for it contradicts any suggestion that the Rezkos overpaid for their part of the deal as a way of getting the seller to lower the price to the Obamas for their part.

What About That Obama Ad?

As we mentioned, McCain's ad was prompted by an Obama attack ad released earlier in the day. In that TV spot, Obama criticizes McCain for not knowing just how many houses he owns. The answer depends on what you count as a McCain-owned home. We're going with our colleagues at PolitiFact.com, who decided that the McCain total is eight.

That was a nice touch at the end.

The overconfident on TPM want to dismiss the Rezko story as a non-issue.  As I've said elsewhere, I think that's dangerous.  I think the FactCheck smackdowns are useful to have on hand.

(FactCheck is nonpartisan, btw, and frequently hits Obama publicity for what it considers factual errors as well.)

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Thanks for the info...we need all the backup info we can get.

The McCain Camp even directed folks to factcheck.org in their rebut to the DHL Ohio ad campaign Obama was/is running.

Of course the McCain Camp isn't going to let the little thing known as the truth get in the way of a smear ad...

You would at least hope the MSM wouldn't play along knowing the facts of the matter.

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One of these f$#%^@!ng days TPM is going to fix their f$#%^@!ng blogging software. Those blockquotes looked FINE when I was composing the post. Sorry they came out b0rked. If there was anything I could have done about it, I would have.

Also on Newsweek.

Come September,
come the end of the primary campaigns,
presumably early September, there’s a
gentleman sitting in jail in Chicago,
Tony Rezko. Rezko is a British sub-agent.
Rezko has been convicted on 18
counts, Federal counts. That, under
present rules, portends a prison sentence
of some considerable duration.
The Federal prosecuting attorney, who
conducted the case against Rezko, is
planning, I think at the end of August, or beginning of
September, to have a little chat, again, with Mr. Rezko. Mr.
Rezko will find that, maybe, for the right conversation
from Mr. Rezko, a certain part of his sentence might be
reduced.
What the result of that would be, would be probably
the impeachment of the governor of Illinois. The whole
operation goes back to London, where the operation was
conceived in the first place, because the money that came
through Rezko to Obama, initially, personal money for his
earlier campaigns, came from London—because Rezko
had no money. So the house that was bought for Obama,
came from Britain, from British money, through Rezko,
who didn’t have the money. And Michelle Obama’s share
of the property also came from the same source. And earlier
things of the Obama campaign in Chicago, came
through the same channel.
Obama’s a British property.
Now, look at his performance. What has he done in the
campaign? What has he argued for? What are the topics
he’s raised, what are the issues? He’s a puppet! He’s a puppet
of the enemy of the United States, a puppet of that faction
of the British Empire, which is out to destroy us.

http://www.larouchepac.com/material

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Dayum, how'd the LaRouchies get in here?

Stay right where you are, I'll bring over some tinfoil.

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In order to get the point about the Rezko statements at this site, you have to want to actually know the truth, and you have to have a brain that can understand the concepts which are discussed. The knuckledraggers will not be moved. Not by anything. Not by science, facts, experience, or any other truth.

Hopefully independents will make the effort. PUMAS don't care except for themselves, so nothing matteres to them.

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