On the October 24 edition of CNN's American Morning, national correspondent Jason Carroll aired video of Cindy McCain asserting: “The day that Senator [Barack] Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body.” Carroll then aired a clip of McCain saying of Obama: “Here you have a man who has distorted and lied about my husband's record.” However, Carroll did not point out that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as Obama noted during the first presidential debate on September 26.

As Media Matters for America has documented, McCain -- along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators -- voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

During the September 26 debate, McCain said that Obama “did the incredible thing of voting to cut off the funds for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Obama responded: “Senator McCain opposed funding for troops in legislation that had a timetable, because he didn't believe in a timetable. I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open-ended, giving a blank check to George Bush. We had a difference on the timetable. We didn't have a difference on whether or not we were going to be funding troops.”

Media Matters has previously documented numerous other instances in which media figures have repeated Cindy McCain's attack on Obama without noting her husband's own vote.

From the October 24 edition of CNN's American Morning:

CARROLL: In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, virtually anywhere Senator John McCain gives a speech --

McCAIN: This is my wife, Cindy.

CARROLL: -- his wife, Cindy, is right next to him.

LESLIE SANCHEZ (Republican strategist): In many ways, Cindy McCain is the rock behind John McCain. She's the stabilizer, the encourager, the nurturer.

CARROLL: And some political observers would now add, the attacker.

CINDY McCAIN: The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body.

CARROLL: And she's not afraid to get personal.

CINDY McCAIN: Here you have a man who has distorted and lied about my husband's record. My husband's never done that.

CARROLL: Supporters respond when the normally soft-spoken Cindy McCain gets tough, like with this jab at Michelle Obama.

CINDY McCAIN: And, yes, I always have been proud of my country.