CNN's Cooper said McCain opposes rolling back Bush tax cuts "which Democrats say favor the rich" - but McCain previously said the same thing
SUMMARY: CNN's Anderson Cooper stated: "On taxes, Senator McCain pledges not to roll back the Bush tax cuts, which Democrats say favor the rich." In fact, it is not just Democrats who say that the Bush tax cuts favor the rich. McCain himself made the same claim in 2001, in explaining his opposition to the tax cuts, a fact that Cooper did not mention.
During the October 27 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper stated: "On taxes, Senator [John] McCain pledges not to roll back the Bush tax cuts, which Democrats say favor the rich." However, Cooper did not note that McCain himself, in explaining his then-opposition to the Bush tax cuts, also said they disproportionately benefitted the rich. While McCain now supports making the tax cuts permanent, in 2001 and 2003, he voted against them. As Media Matters for America has documented, in 2001, McCain explained his vote by stating: "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief." Furthermore, on the April 11, 2004, edition of NBC's Meet the Press, McCain reaffirmed his rationale for originally opposing the Bust tax cuts by stating, "I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthy Americans."
From the October 27 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:
COOPER: John McCain today. He also distanced himself from President Bush's economic policies and Senator Obama's.
Take a look.
McCAIN [video clip]: This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me. We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is he thinks taxes have been too low and I think spending has been too high.
COOPER: On taxes, Senator McCain pledges not to roll back the Bush tax cuts, which Democrats say favor the rich.
As for Sarah Palin, she too was in a battleground state attacking Obama.
McCain VOTED against Bush's tax cuts.
This should be of real concern to American voters. McCain seemed to be reasonably in touch with reality as recently as 2001. The contrast between his positions a mere 7 years apart are a pretty good window into the mental state of this would-be leader of the nation.
McCain's comments back then even matched his votes:
"I really believe, that when you are--reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more."
I've heard that clip, too; it would make a perfect DNC commercial. I don't know why they aren't using it.
OT, but hey, it's just holloween, right? Reichwingers didn't have any problems with several different displays I posted showing Barack being lynched, y'all just wrote it off as holloween pranks. So I KNOW y'all will have no problem whatsoever with this one:
Granted, "Ordinary People" sucked, but lynching Mary Tyler Moore is over-reacting, in my opinion.
I'm not very easily offended Snoopy, but that's one I wish hadn't happened. The interesting part was that this was all over the "News" last night, the commentators outraged at the hateful lefty's Halloween display, while the thwarted plot to kill Obama seemed to receive much less air time, and little comment from the bobbleheads.
That was pretty much my point. Lynch Obama in effigy or attempt to kill him? Not a peep. Liberal press my soft white ...
In other news, another McCain coverup!
News Orgs Investigate Possibly Fatal McCain '64 Car Crash
October 28, 2008 09:45 AM
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual.Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.
The plot by the idiots to kill Obama was front page news, so when you say "not a peep" I guess you're just making things up.
sure it was. that would explain why Fox news leading stories are these:
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Oh come on Snoop, the skinhead plot against Obama was all over the news yesterday, as well it should be. If you want to use Fox as some bellweather for news reporting, then go ahead.
Welcome back, tommy!
But getting back to the point, maybe other places were different, but down here in Austin this was nothing more than a 30 second sound byte on all the local channels I watched.
Fox had no problem when someone busted those guys in Florida without shoes who were planning to kill everybody. Shouldn't these two be considered terrorists? And isn't it about time that we raised our RAINBOW security code a color higher? Come on Gorge, you can so it one more time. Ten(10) prince crowns to the first to list the colors in proper order.
luscious green, baby blue eyes, cowardly yellow, fuscia and red faced mccain.
I noticed yesterday and this morning that this single incident is also being used by the righty pundits to paint all of liberaldom the same color of "hateful".
Yeah, too bad they have to wait for halloween for the libs to simulate the reality of rightys.
Speaking of hatin', I heard something pretty funny on the way into work from wingnut Mike Gallagher. He was giving his audience a little pep talk about staying hopeful and not getting discouraged by the failing McCampaign. He advised them not to pay too much attention to polls (Ask Harry Truman!), and also mentioned another reason for optimism-- We've never had a racial dynamic like this at play in an election before.
How about that? He's telling his audience to keep their spirits up based on hoping that Republicans are generally pretty racist. Keep up the good work, Gallagher!
Used to get the replay of the previous day's Gallagher show here in the early mornings. I realized then that if there was ever any threat to Hannity's "dumb" title, Gallagher was just the guy to mount it.
Doesn't sound like he's gained any intellect in the interim. He does perform a valuable service by confirming in a very direct way all those things we suspect about the right.
He's acknowledging racism in America. Democrats and Republicans.
Fair enough, Bruce, I can't say that he was asking his audience to hope for exclusively Republican racism to win the day. He may have been alluding to lower turnout by Dems who are racist as well as racist Republicans voting. I just didn't think it was a real positive angle to base his optimism on either way.
If you read between the lines, that's pretty sickening. I guess the hard core racists are assuming, maybe even hoping, that there are plenty more skinhead douchebags out there who are still plotting under the radar. Pathetic.
For all those people who generally despise Kieth Olbermann, it's worth noting that he roundly condemned this display.
It's obviously not Palin. The outfit looks like it cost less than $5000.
The MSM should get this right by now. I guess Obama needs to run non-stop ads calling McCain a serial flip-flopper before they'll take any notice.
Far be it for me to defend CNN (Fox Lite), but you really can't blame Andy. How can we expect MSM folks to keep up with McGoo's ravings? You never know what the guy's gonna come up with next. Just to see him squirm with Tom Brokaw's easy questions the other night was hilarious.