Media Matters: Media repeat Cindy McCain's attack on Obama troop-funding vote, ignore McCain's vote

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Media Matters for America: Media repeat Cindy McCain's attack on Obama troop-funding vote, ignore John McCain's troop-funding vote

In reports on Cindy McCain's speech at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, campaign event, the CBS Evening News, Fox News' The Live Desk, and the Politico's Jonathan Martin all noted McCain's attack on Sen. Barack Obama that his "vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." However, none of their reports pointed out that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as Obama noted during the first presidential debate on September 26.

On the October 8 edition of Fox News' The Live Desk, co-host Martha MacCallum repeated Cindy McCain's attack on Obama, saying: "We don't usually hear that kind of talk from Cindy McCain, but she was very outspoken. And she said that it sent a chill through her when he fought to turn down funding for the troops in a Senate bill in the past. So, some pretty strong words from Cindy McCain today." Similarly, on the October 8 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid reported that "Cindy McCain, John McCain's wife, jumped into the fray today, sharply accusing Obama of abandoning the troops by voting against funding for the war in Iraq." And in an October 8 blog post, the Politico's Jonathan Martin quoted Cindy McCain's comments after noting that she "took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today."

However, none of the reports noted that Sen. McCain voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs, as Media Matters for America has noted....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090004?f=h_latest

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Media Matters for America: Media continue to repeat Cindy McCain's comment about troop funding without noting her husband's own vote

In October 9 articles, The New York Times and The Washington Post quoted Cindy McCain's claim that Sen. Barack Obama's "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but did not note that McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as Obama pointed out during the first presidential debate on September 26. While both articles noted that Obama voted against troop funding because the legislation did not include a withdrawal timetable, they did not note McCain's vote.

Neither the Times nor the Post noted that McCain voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs -- along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators.

During the September 26 debate, McCain stated that Obama "did the incredible thing of voting to cut off the funds for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Obama responded: "Senator McCain opposed funding for troops in legislation that had a timetable, because he didn't believe in a timetable. I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open-ended, giving a blank check to George Bush. We had a difference on the timetable. We didn't have a difference on whether or not we were going to be funding troops."

Similarly, MSNBC played the clip of Cindy McCain's claim on the October 9 edition of Morning Joe, and co-host Mika Brzezinski stated: "There's been so much talk about the strategy of the McCain campaign; that to me seems like a smart one. I mean that's real, relevant." Co-host Joe Scarborough agreed, saying, "That's smart, that's relevant, that is -- that's legitimate, and that resonates much better than William Ayers." However, neither Brzezinski nor Scarborough noted McCain's vote against the March 2007 bill. Later in the segment, Scarborough asked Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs, "Is it unfair to make the kind of statement that Cindy McCain made about Barack Obama -- abandoning the troops in the field by not voting to fund them?" Gibbs replied, in part: "I can't imagine what Cindy McCain's reaction must have been when John McCain walked down to the Senate floor and also voted against funding the troops in Iraq."

By contrast, on the October 8 edition of NBC's Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell played a clip of Cindy McCain's comments and then noted: "In fact, Obama voted against money for the troops once, in May 2007 -- he said because the bill didn't include a timetable for withdrawal. But John McCain also voted against a troop-funding bill two months earlier for the opposite reason: because that bill called for a troop withdrawal."...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090006?f=h_latest

[Cha]

1. Rec'd~ Come on..let's fight back on the hypocricy!

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[DeepModem Mom]

2. Good call, zidzi -- thanks!!! nt

[Cha]

3. Just talked to my son on Kauai..

and I reminded him we were talking about cindy mccain whining about Obama's vote and how we were wondering what was up with that?

I was starting to tell him about "mccain voting the same way" but he told me..so my point is that my son only gets his news from cable so this info is out there..

We just have to make sure it gets out there MORE!