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McClatchy has flagged John McCain with a fifteen yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.
First, here’s what John McCain said today:
No one will delay the World Series game with an infomercial when I’m president.
The truth behind his statement, from McClatchy:
It’s not unusual for World Series games to start after 8:30 p.m., and according to the Web site Politico, the Fox executive who’s responsible for the Obama ad purchase said the infomercial was replacing only the pre-game show.
"Our first pitch for the World Series is usually around 8:30 anyway, so we didn’t push back the game. It was really just about suspending the pre-game, you know, Joe Buck," said the account executive, Joe Coppola. "That’s all we did."
But McClatchy follows up with what makes McCain’s attack so ridiculous:
McCain himself was responsible for shifting the time of the National Football League’s 2008 opening game. NBC moved the Washington Redskins-New York Giants game up at least an hour, to 7 p.m. EDT, so that McCain’s Republican convention speech could be broadcast around 10 p.m. on Sept. 4.
Move back fifteen yards and try again, John, but you might want to watch Barack at 8 tonight to see how a real President acts.
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Another example of Rovian projection from the GOP nominee.
Always, always, always: if a GOP accuses a Democrat of something, the GOP has already done it, and worse.