McCain Campaign Launches Palin Truth Squad

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john mccain’s campaign launched the palin fact squad tuesday. in a press release, the campaign stated: “the palin really squad when one pleases set the record uncurved against internet and not literal smears of governor palin.” in defiance of this, the mccain web situate still has a link to the circadian kos on its web site, the originator of some of the online scuttlebutt. photo: tom legro

John McCain’s campaign on Tuesday unveiled a new squadron of politicians whose duty will be to battle perceptions that are quickly forming about the Republican party’s vice achat cialis presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.

The Republicans seem to have been fighting the battle since the moment that McCain announced his pick. Like Barack Obama, whose personal background and history were relatively unknown at the beginning of the presidential campaign, Palin has become the victim of multiple online whispering campaigns, and of partisan bloggers who have been ginning up stories about her record.

There’s been so much flying around the internet within the past week and a half that the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center published a long list of rebuttals Monday against many of the e-mails and blog postings about Palin.

The post was titled “Sliming Palin.” The bullet points address Palin’s record on funding education in Alaska for special needs children, her record (or lack thereof) on ‘censoring’ books in Wasilla’s library, whether she has an affiliation with the Alaskan Independence party, and several other subjects.


The McCain campaign linked to the post this morning. So far, that seems to be the extent of its online fact-checking activity.

Unlike other online wars however, the smears against Palin might be a bit more difficult for the McCain campaign to battle.

For example, there are various photoshopped pictures of Palin making the rounds on the internet. One of them is of someone in a bikini holding what looks like a rifle. Palin’s face has been superimposed on the picture.

While the Obama campaign can try to debunk rumors about his religious faith, it’s hard to imagine that the McCain campaign is going to put up a web page saying that Palin has never posed for a photograph semi-naked with a rifle.

Maybe they can just point people to the urban legend debunkers at Snopes.com.


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