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CNN's Chetry did not challenge McCain's false claim that Biden "said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries"

On the October 2 edition of CNN's American Morning, co-host Kiran Chetry didnot challenge Sen. John McCain's false claim that Sen. Joe Biden"said that Iraqhad to be broken up into three different countries." In fact, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, Biden introduced a "five-point plan" to"[m]aintain a unified Iraqby decentralizing it and giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis breathing room intheir own regions." Biden's plan also stated that "[t]he Iraqiconstitution already provides for federalism" and that "[t]he centralgovernment would be responsible for common interests, like border security andthe distribution of oil revenues."
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Posted by peebs755

I think Grampy is in the first stages of dementia.

Posted by jeter2 in reply to peebs755

I think the media is too...

Posted by wzwriter in reply to peebs755

I think Grampy is in the first stages of dementia.

I think he's in the advanced stages - he actually thinks he can win...

Posted by DorisRussell

I love how the media keeps insisting this myth. Good job again MMFA!!!

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to DorisRussell

I seem to remember endless discussions of this over the last few years. I thought it was put to rest when the media realised subdividing Iraq would only add three more Palestine type problems to the area. I guess those media airheads either don't get it or they are actually airheads. I suppose in the end, I would do what the boss told me.

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski

Oh, but the surge is WORKING! Why don't Americans understand that? Because they hate America, and hate freedom? I don't get it, why won't you leftist pinko commie liberals accept that the surge is WORKING, and there is no more war in Iraq!! Maybe Grampa needs to break out his old flight suit and announce it to the world. I'm sure there's a banner furled up in a White House closet somewhere that he could use.

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

Surges work when you realise all a surge is adding more guys with big guns in the area. the chinese did it at tieneman square, the north Vietnamese did it at TET offensive, the north koreans did it to the french in 1950 and so on. It is a tactic used for temporary results, temporary only as long as the tropps remain. If i was speeding down the freeway and seventeen cops stopped me, i would say that surge worked.Doesn't mean someday down the road will not I would do it again.

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski in reply to wolf kotenberg

Because you did not explicitly state the the Surge in Iraq is WORKING, I will have to assume that you are AGAINST America and FOR the terrorists.

Posted by SouthTexScott in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

Yeah, and now we will have to fight them here, because they hate us for our freedom.

McCAIN: Actually, Joe Biden said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries, one of the more cockamamie ideas that I've heard in a long, long time

It's hard to challenge somebody when they're in full-tilt Grandpa Simpson mode, using words like "cockamamie". I was expecting a "By Gum" or "Yer darn tootin' '" to drive his point home.

And while it was mentioned that Sarah Palin is "comfortable in her own skin", it should be noted that she's just as comfortable in the freshly liberated skin of a bull elephant seal, or that of a recalcitrant member of the liberal elite media.

Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

Why you whippersnapper, get off my lawn!

Skinner&Abe

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to worrierking

There you go again with your hateful ageism. I'm sure you guffawed derisively when you watched This video. I only shook my head in disapproval.

Posted by JLyons

Five point Plan? Forget the five point plan, we would not be in this mess if McCain and his neocon war mongers did not lie about WMD.

Posted by pete592

Ginning Up The Base 101.

This is how you appeal to the emotions of your base.  Lie by taking whatever a your opponent is proposing and distort it into something outrageous.

Biden's plan to give the ethnic groups breating room in Iraq becomes "breaking Iraq into three different countries."

Obama's desire to have kindergartners taught how to avoid sexual predators becomes "teaching sex education to kindergartners."

The list goes on and on.

Posted by wzwriter

McCAIN: Actually, Joe Biden said that Iraq had to be broken up into three different countries, one of the more cockamamie ideas that I've heard in a long, long time...

Voting for Gramps McCain is the most cockamamie idea of them all. (BTW - I haven't heard that word in years - my father used to use it all the time, and he died in 1991.)

Posted by shaggles

McCain doesn't stand up to his party leadership. He talks about it but he gets right in line when it's time to vote.

Posted by JLyons in reply to shaggles

Because McCain is a liar

Posted by princeofwheels

I did not know that there was a Grampa Clampett. But I guess Grampa wants to bring the rest of the family to the White House and the C..ment Pond.

McCain is coming apart at the seams. He'll soon be using such harsh words as Dagnabit and Golly Gee while he tries to get his good buddy Joey Lieberman to run as an Assistant VP. Really, do the McCain followers see him as presidential? If so, how? Talking about WAR? Baloney.

Posted by JLyons in reply to princeofwheels

McCain is coming apart at the seams. He'll soon be using such harsh words as Dagnabit and Golly Gee while he tries to get his good buddy Joey Lieberman to run as an Assistant VP. Really, do the McCain followers see him as presidential? If so, how? Talking about WAR? Baloney.

This was all obvious when he picked Palin.

Posted by sambo

They did put it to rest years ogo, as you said,only McSame forgets alot,even forgets what REALLY happened during his POW years

Posted by Max Dharma

Biden's plan also stated that "[t]he Iraqi constitution already provides for federalism" and that "[t]he central government would be responsible for common interests, like border security and the distribution of oil revenues."

Gee sorry, our bad; federalisms complete with border security.
Yeah, that makes all the difference.

Good Plan Biden!

Posted by foghornleghorn in reply to Max Dharma

What's "federalisms"?

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to foghornleghorn

What "are" federalisms, Fog. I think there am more than one of them. I'm not sure, the public education system in the Grand Duchy Amalgamated Federalism of California didn't teach me everything

Posted by peebs755 in reply to Max Dharma

One of these days we'll all be able to figure out what Max is talking about. Sadly, that day has not arrived.