Comments on: Rick Davis Didn’t Leave His Company Being Paid $15,000/Month From Freddie Mac

By: PD100

PD100 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:17:56 +0000

"Oddly enough, everyone wants to talk about Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, that gave McCain an average of $1,000/year — but won’t mention that Obama averaged $30,000/year from them." No, this post is about Rick Davis, who works as campaign manager for John McCain. By the way Jay, do any of Obama's Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac donors (or excecs) work for Obama TO ThiS Day??1!1??eleven!?

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:27:40 +0000

Does the word ‘fib’ have a childish connotation? If so, it may be appropriate here. I’d never call something a lie or a fib by virtue of my disagreement, but I would use either word to describe a statement made in knowing and clear violation of the facts. How about we use ‘fib’ to describe a really bad and easily disprovable lie, the short a child might offer, while a ‘lie’ is slightly harder to disprove?

To wit:

Lie – “Sept. 11 is President Clinton’s fault.”

Fib – “I told Congress thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere.”

Ah, I’m just teasing you Dennis. All in good fun.

By: Jay Tea

Jay Tea — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:20:13 +0000

Oddly enough, everyone wants to talk about Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, that gave McCain an average of $1,000/year — but won’t mention that Obama averaged $30,000/year from them.

By: essrog

essrog — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:30:35 +0000

Agreed, McCain should be called out for lying when he’s lying instead of trying to fudge things in his favor by claiming he “misspoke”

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:24:37 +0000

How about just calling it lying, Nimrod? It’s an all-encompassing word here.

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:18:33 +0000

There should be a word for the kind of post where the poster could have just typed random letters and still conveyed more or less the same thing.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:11:39 +0000

Sorry, Parth. I stopped using the word fib after my youngest daughter graduated from kindergarten. As to lying, I’ll leave that to you to make that claim for every spoken word you’re not 100% in agreement with.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:33:10 +0000

If I ever heard one of you guys say “You know, you’re right, the McCain campaign told a fib there,” I might just… well, probably assume it was a sock puppet posing as you, to be honest.

By: dennis

dennis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:27:54 +0000

Shorter SaveFaris: I got nuthin.
ed

This from a blog hyperventilating about John McCain’s one eyelid being lower than the other one.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:57:17 +0000

Shorter SaveFaris: I got nuthin.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:41:21 +0000

If Jim Johnson were a senior adviser let alone the campaign manager, your non-sequitir would make sense.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:39:35 +0000

Jim Johnson thinks this is an apalling development.

By: lover of jazz

lover of jazz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:14:36 +0000

especially funny in reference to this is palin’s rote response to katie couric’s question about davis on cbs. it’s a shame palin isn’t giving more interviews, as it’d be great listening to her giving the same rehearsed answers to every question.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:04:50 +0000

“I’m here if you ever want to leave Cindy”-Carl Cameron to John McCain