McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of “Carved B” Story Before Facts Were Known

By Greg Sargent – October 24, 2008, 5:12PM

John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s cheek stood for “Barack,” according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.

John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”

Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the “B” stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.

The KDKA reporter had called McCain’s campaign office for details after seeing the story — sans details — teased on Drudge.

The McCain spokesperson’s claims — which came in the midst of extraordinary and heated conversations late yesterday between the McCain campaign, local TV stations, and the Obama camp, as the early version of the story rocketed around the political world — is significant because it reveals a McCain official pushing a version of the story that was far more explosive than the available or confirmed facts permitted at the time.

The claims to KDKA from the McCain campaign were included in an early story that ran late yesterday on KDKA’s Web site. The paragraphs containing these assertions were quickly removed from the story after the Obama campaign privately complained that KDKA was letting the McCain campaign spin a racially-charged version of the story before the facts had been established, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

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Race Baiting By The McCain Campaign

Race-baiting by John McCain

Yesterday, Fox News Executive Vice-President John Moody, who is a Pittsburgh native, wrote on his blog that the incident, if proven false, would irreversibly damage the McCain campaign.

“This incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election,” he wrote. “If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.

More from Andrew Sullivan, Wired, Telegraph and Associated Content.

Race has been a sensitive issue in the contest and a number of prominent Republicans, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, have criticised the increasingly divisive tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. Some supporters have been freely expressing their distaste for a black president to reporters attending McCain rallies, while cries of “terrorist!” and “kill him” have been heard from the crowd at televised events.

Obama Has Sense of Humor

Is ‘Joe the Plumber’ related to Charles Keating?

I thought this was important so here are the links:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/16/02217/845/591/632001

http://www.collegeotr.com/college_otr/joe_the_plumber_wurzelbacher_related_to_keating_of_the_keating_5_scandal_owes_back_taxes_13295

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=64946&cat=5

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/joe-plumber-more-joe-keating-family-

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/10/16/plumbergate-joe-the-plumber-is-related-to-charles-keating-and-also-owes-back-taxes.aspx

Joe, The Unlicensed Plumber Is Not a Plumber

Joe the Plumber said Thursday he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t need one. Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, the nickname Republican John McCain bestowed on him during Wednesday’s presidential debate, said he works for a small plumbing company that does residential work. Because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license, he said.

But the county Wurzelbacher and his employer live in, Lucas County, requires plumbers to have licenses. Neither Wurzelbacher nor his employer are licensed there, said Cheryl Schimming of Lucas County Building Regulations, which handles plumber licenses in parts of the county outside Toledo.

An official at Local 50 of the plumber’s union, based in Toledo, said Mr. Wurzelbacher does not hold a license. He also has never served an apprenticeship and does not belong to the union. (The national plumber’s union, the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters, and Service Mechanics, endorsed Mr. Obama, it should be noted.)

“He’s basically playing games with the world,” Thomas Joseph, the local’s business manager, said in a telephone interview Thursday morning

Read more…

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/?hp

GOP’s Cynical Plan Palin – Palin questions McCain Decision

Unprecendented. Never befor has a vice-presidential candidate questioned the head of the ticket in the history of US presidential politics. Sarah Palin questioned Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s decision to abandon efforts to win Michigan, a campaign move she claimed that she learned about Friday morning when she read it in the newspapers.

One often wonders who or what is encouraging the winking Alaska governor’s fiesty tone as she started to pimp the campaign trail again.

Take it from me, she is running for president. McCain is about to be relegated to the VP spot.

You’d wish that was a joke.

VoteForTheMilf.com – Why John McCain Chose Sarah Palin

Milfs are the maverick’s meal ticket

Seems positive that Republican presidential candidate John McCain owns VoteForTheMilf.com, VoteForTheMilf.net and VoteForTheMilf.org.

(Update: Now the McCain campaign is redirecting traffic to Google. However if you look at the thumbnail history it still shows the McCain site. LOL. The McCain, Palin people are really don’t seem to get it).

They were re-directing traffic to the John McCain campaign site. Here have a look.

(For the uninitiated, vote for the milf translates to vote for the mother I’d like to fuck). Really.

Note how she says “from americans who are really desiring,” and “shake things up,” and “let’s do this together, etc.” Embedded NLP innuendoes? Before you scoff at this idea watch this video.

And for good measure, this one.

Talk about sexism, now McCain”s motto “Country First” now sports a rather dubious halo.

People in the porn industry, like Republican presidential candidates know that MILF is a very highly searched term. On the Wordtracker Long term top 1000 report, Milf is the 14th most searched term.

Related terms include:

• milfs
• milf hunter
• milf sex
• hot milf
• milfs like it big.
  

More info from GovGap: (The site that broke the story)

- URL Registered within ~36 hours of McCain’s Decision to select Palin as running mate
- Redirect sends users specifically to a palin.htm file, but only on the FIRST redirect
- Whois Privacy Information Matches JohnMcCain.com Whois Privacy
- URL Held by same registrar
- Note that the .net and .org versions also redirect to the McCain Campaign Website.
Network Tools.com Trace Route:
- 64.203.107.149 (VoteForTheMILF.com)
- 64.203.107.149 (JohnMcCain.com)

The word seems to be getting around. Will someone please ask McCain how much he wants for the domains or whether he has other plans for them?

McCain and Palin may never make it to Whitehouse.gov, but surely they can restore Whitehouse.com to it’s former glory.

McCain’s Incurable Honorrhea

The term “Honorrhea” was coined by the late Paul Newman according to the LA Times. Paul Newman will be missed.

Then we have John McCain. A man with a cute honorrhea. Did you watch the first presidential debate? Not only did he blow his own trumpet, he blew the same tune over and over again. He sucked the life out of the truth, jumped the shark, nuked the fridge and even put a pike through Ike.

Did I just coin a new term?

With the social grace of a beltway thug, he proceeded to batter Barack Obama and the audience with ‘You Just Don’t Understand.’ Well Senator we do understand. Our brains are not poached by the heat of the Arizona Sun.

Here is a list of things we understand.

1. McCain is Against Raising The Minimum Wage
2. McCain Said US May Stay In Iraq For 100 Years
3. McCain Accepted $124,000 from Keating and company

We also understand that McCain uses women to move up in life.

1. John McCain left his crippled first wife for a young, blond, booze peddling heir to a fortune
2. John McCain has a habit of spewing the word cunt
3. John McCain selected inept lying bimbo Sarah Palin, so that he could win

Here is a list of McCain lies. Of course when reminded he will start talking about being a POW. Even that is another major problem.

Where is you honor Senator? Tooting your own horn on Fox won’t cut it with the electorate in the age of the interbutt.

Or is it, John McCain’s honorrhea is incurable?

Clap for him if you will but think again, before you shake his hand.