Wash.  Post uncritically  quoted McCain accusing Dems of voting
 
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:53:04 -0400

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<p><b><em>Wash.  Post </em>uncritically  quoted McCain accusing Dems of voting
"against funding for our  troops" </b></p>
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200709090006?src=item200709090006">http://mediamatters.org/items/200709090006</a></p>

<p>In a September 9 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709090006&http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/09/09/mccain_says_democrats_would_we.html#more" title="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/09/09/mccain_says_democrats_would_we.html#more">entry</a> on <i>The Washington Post</i>&#39;s The Trail blog, 
staff writer Dan Balz reported presidential candidate and Sen. John 
McCain&#39;s (R-AZ) statement that 
"Today, leading presidential candidates vote against funding for our troop 
engaged in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq." 
Balz added: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) 
both voted against an Iraq funding bill earlier this year," referring to their 
May 24 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709090006&http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00181" title="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00181">votes</a> against a war funding bill that did 
not include a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But as 
<i>Media Matters for America</i> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100008?src=item200709090006" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200707100008">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705250006?src=item200709090006" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705250006">noted</a> in response to other media 
figures&#39; uncritical 
reporting of similar attacks by 
McCain or his staff, McCain himself <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709090006&http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00126" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709090006&http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00126">voted against</a> an emergency spending bill 
that funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on March 29, which President Bush 
ultimately <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200709090006&http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070502-1.html" title="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070502-1.html">vetoed</a>, citing its provision 
for a withdrawal timetable. </p>

<p>From the September 9 
post in <i>The Washington Post</i>&#39;s The 
Trail blog: </p><blockquote>

<p>Arizona Sen. John 
McCain (R) took on the three leading Democratic presidential candidates 
Saturday, accusing them of advocating policies that would lead to defeat in 
Iraq and that would weaken 
America&#39;s national 
security.</p>

<p><b>"Today, 
leading Democratic presidential candidates vote against funding for our troops 
engaged in war in Afghanistan 
and Iraq," McCain 
said</b> in a speech to the 
California Republican Party convention. "Today, leading Democratic presidential 
candidates question whether there is a war on terror, offer to enter into 
unconditional negotiations with our worst enemies, and talk about countering the 
forces of radicalism by advocating surrender to them in Iraq."</p>

<p><b>Sen. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) both voted 
against an Iraq funding bill earlier this year.</b> 
Former North Carolina senator 
John Edwards has charged that President Bush&#39;s global war on terror amounts to a 
bumper sticker that has been used to enact policies detrimental to the country. 
Obama has said he would be prepared to meet with leaders of hostile nations 
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