Fact-checking McCain-Palin

Politifact says McCain is stretching the truth about Palin and the "Bridge to Nowhere" ("Palin didn't kill it, she just performed the last rites.") and flatly lying about "lipstick on a pig" and Obama's alleged position on sex education.

They do give Palin the benefit of the doubt about whether she said the Iraq war was "God's will." (That she definitively said so is now conventional wisdom in many circles - see this Canadian Press story about Bill Maher's upcoming anti-religion movie, for example.)

For the record, Politifact gave a couple of Joe Biden's statements the dreaded "Pants on Fire!" rating during primary season, but despite noting several false statements by Barack Obama, they have yet to catch him in a blatant lie.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at September 13, 2008 05:26 PM