Bullshit: the Kennedy Goldwater Debate Agreement

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McBullshitfabricator was at it again last night with his grotesquely worded claim that a Kennedy-Goldwater agreement to hold a series of town hall debates was in place until the 'intervention in dallas'.


From NBC’s Chris Donovan
In McCain's letter he quotes Goldwater as saying a similar deal on town hall meetings "would have done the country a lot of good."

The quote actually comes from a 1988 Washington Post interview with Goldwater -- and it might be interesting to see the full quote in context.

In it, Goldwater says, "It probably wouldn't have happened." Here's the full quote: (and as I type historian Michael Beschloss just made this point on MSNBC):

"Goldwater's eyes remain fixed on the window. 'I would have enjoyed it very much. I even talked to him one day about using the same airplane, going to the same places. He'd get out in one place and start to debate and I'd rebut him. Then we'd turn it around in the next place. It was the Uncle Morris fantasy, and it probably wouldn't have happened. But he liked the idea. It would have saved a lot of money, we'd have had a good time, and it would have done the country a lot of good.'" (Washington Post, 8/14/1988)

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/04/1110876.aspx

There was no agreement between Kennedy and Goldwater.