RNC Calls on Networks to Halt Anti-McCain ‘100 Years’ Ad
MIAMI — The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”
The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.
The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.
“We deliberately used John McCain’s words. This isn’t some ominous consultant’s voice from Washington. This is John McCain’s own words. And we’ve been very upfront about everything that he’s said.”
I’m not surprised that the Democrats are trying to distort the truth —- that is what they do.
What’s with all this whining!!!!?? Both sides always find something to cry about. Grow up people, this is a run for the president of the USA…may the best man or woman win!
Why not sue the networks who knowingly air false and defamatory remarks, its a clear case of slander. Especially since its well documented what was really said.
Comment by edyson is a lie. Or Edyson doesn’t hear too well, or Edyson doesn’t know what “taken out of context” means. Anyone who heard McCain knows the truth, obviously Edyson didn’t. Its the English language man, maybe you don’t understand it.
I agree the best thing to do is McCain’s whole comment and then the Democrat ad.
Follow with the question, “What else aren’t the Democrats telling us?”
Why waste time on what Dean has to say?
What does Swift Boat Veterans have to do with all of this? The Swift Boat Veterans were real heroes of the Vietnam War and they exposes the lies of the Democrat John Kerry, who faked his so-call injures to be able to go home early from Vietnam. To put the words truth and Democrats in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
I’m a Republican and have always been, been the ad isn’t taken out of context at all. John McCain said plain as day that he was perfectly fine with the US sitting in Iraq for the next 100 years. And because of this, it is clear that McCain will lose a lot of votes, including mine. The war(s) are bankrupting the country. Open your eyes everybody!!
“We deliberately used John McCain’s words. This isn’t some ominous consultant’s voice from Washington. This is John McCain’s own words. And we’ve been very upfront about everything that he’s said.”
Great quote… let me see what I can do with _his_ own words…
“We deliberately used … words… ominous words.”
It’s amazing what you can make people ’say’ when you only quote the exact words you want.
Obama has nobody to blame but himself for the mess he is in. His mother didn’t teach him to watch who he hanged out with; he will be measured as they will? I guess he didn’t learn that lesson or never received it.
MCCAIN DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH! We will be in Iraq for many years to come no matter who is voted for president. If we are not, we will see the terrorists march down the streets of America. We will have demonstrated to them that policy in this country is determined by the Democrats based on opinion polls and not on sound reasoning.
But this is too much to handle for the DCN and Mr. Dean. They have to twist McCain’s words and the liberal media goes along. I feel sorry for the ordinary citizen of this great country if we have to put up with Clinton or, God forbid, Obama for president. God help us! The rich don’t need help. They will pack their bags and move on.