McCain/Palin May Have Lied About VA Crowd Estimates
This past week McCain/Palin held a huge rally in Fairfax. The McCain camp claimed that they had 23,000 people attending the event. That’s an Obama-sized number, a number that would signify a real swing in momentum for the republican ticket. Too bad it might not be true.
Bloomberg reports:
“McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.
Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.
In recent days, journalists attending the rallies have been raising questions about the crowd estimates with the campaign. In a story on Sept. 11 about Palin’s attraction for some Virginia women voters, Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher estimated the crowd to be 8,000, not the 23,000 cited by the campaign.”
Found via TPM.
*McCain camp offers weird response to press inquiries.
*Quick update: Palin’s Bridge to Nowhere lie returns to stump speech.
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September 14th, 2008 at 12:49 am
to refer to an obvious factual error likely the result of relying on second or third hand information that gets garbled in transmission hardly rises to the level of “lying”….WCP is as bad as the NYT or MSNBC if casually throwing around epithets like this reflects the quality of your journalism…McCain “aide” Kimmie Lipscomb is just a young press flak….people with her job usually have to field questions the answers to which there is no one who really knows the correct information so she would have to rely on second and third hand information and mistakes happen….the job of the press in part is to find those mistakes, but to call them lies is hardly an indication of your objectivity.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
McNasty has proved he’s a inveterate liar. Palin the Impaler is a born-again liar.
Nothing is an “obvious factual error” here. It is simply an “obvious” lie. Grow up & get a job, burp.