{"id":6390,"date":"2008-09-15T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2008-09-16T03:03:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T10:03:54","slug":"mccain-spokesman-spanked-on-fox-news-of-all-places-for-lies-about-obama-tax-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6390","title":{"rendered":"McCain Spokesman Spanked on Fox ‘News’ (of All Places) for Lies About Obama Tax Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Wow. Poor Tucker Bounds. First CNN’s right-leaning Campbell Brown (she’s married to Bush Admin loyalist\/lackey Dan Senor, despite the fact that CNN rarely, if ever, discloses that serious conflict of interest) committed a rare act of actual journalism<\/a> by asking Bounds what foreign affairs experience Sarah Palin had. The McCain\/Palin shill had nothing, and embarrassed himself under Brown’s repeated, and responsible, prodding. So the McCain camp subsequently cancelled<\/a> an interview with CNN’s Larry King, claiming “that exchange was over the line” because Brown bothered to ask actual questions, and follow-ups, of their campaign.<\/p>\n

And now, it seems that even Fox “News” is holding a McCain foot to the fire for some currently inexplicable reason. Fox’s Megyn Kelly went after Bounds in regard to the McCain camp’s continuing lies, and new ad claiming Obama plans to raise taxes on the middle class, despite countless independent think-tanks that have studied the Obama tax plan and have reported the McCain claim to be simply untrue. <\/p>\n

“I want to hold you accountable for what McCain is doing,” Kelly said for some reason today. ThinkProgress has details<\/a>, here’s their video…<\/p>\n

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The remarkable video of Brown’s grilling of Bounds on CNN during the Republican Convention follows below, in case you missed it previously, or in case you’d like a nourishing second helping of freshly grilled Tucker…<\/p>\n

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Wow. Poor Tucker Bounds. First CNN’s right-leaning Campbell Brown (she’s married to Bush Admin loyalist\/lackey Dan Senor, despite the fact that CNN rarely, if ever, discloses that serious conflict of interest) committed a rare act of actual journalism by asking Bounds what foreign affairs experience Sarah Palin had. The McCain\/Palin shill had nothing, and embarrassed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,19,122,252],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-cnn","category-election-2008","category-john-mccain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}