"Disrespectful"
Another hard-hitting John McCain ad ... This one begins with a flutter of camera flashes, smacks Barack Obama for his celebrity but notes that his "star is fading" and so he's "lashed out" at Sarah Palin. He and Joe Biden, a female narrator says, "dismissed her as good looking." Called her a liar. But, the narrator notes, "Gov Sarah Palin proves them wrong every day."
An attack ad that frames the attackees (BO and JB) as the attackers. Pitches Palin as the victim. Wonder, though, if anyone came out as forcefully in defense of Palin's children's privacy as Obama when the family confirmed Bristol Palin's pregnancy?
Here's Obama's quote: "I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."
Hardly dismissive or disrespectful. In fact, I can't summon a single Obama or Biden quote that could be qualified as lashing out. Sure they've questioned how reasonably McCain/Palin can claim the change mantle and noted that Palin was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. But the ad's assertions reflect neither knock.
The non partisan Factcheck.org analysis of the spot concludes that the McCain/Palin camp is distorting quotes from the Obama team. "It takes words out of context to make it sound as though the Democratic ticket is belittling Palin." The ad's use of rival comments "particularly egregious," the site concludes.
Here's the spot:
(JENNIFER SKALKA)
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