McCain staffer has quote, but not the source of the quote. The ad is ginned up with the former whilst (s)he seeks the latter; the ad goes out without the completion.

but Noonan is hardly that much of a hack.

Incorrect. She is that much of a hack. She has a well-deserved reputation for touting the GOP every chance she gets, then being more honest in private exchanges (one of which was revealed on TV some weeks back.

Hack. Total hack. A shill. A fraud.

Not much to add, other than the problem that McCain faces is that it’s not that difficult to believe they would have done something like this, considering their earlier screwup with the debate.

Plus, although this certainly COULD have been a template error, I’d say it was mighty convenient that Noonan supplied a quote that neatly fit into the template’s copy-space. The quote wound up just long enough to be meaty, yet not so long that the font size had to be shrunk to a too-small size. Not to mention the absolute incompetence of whoever would have updated the template – they put in the quote and the date of the quote, but not the name of the person who made the quote? Frankly, this is where I start to have a problem with anyone claiming it’s an error in the template.

Regardless, there’s no way we’ll ever know for sure. Noonan certainly would never admit to it, and neither would anyone in McCain’s camp.

I don’t know much about Peggy Noonan, but I suspect she’s an egotistical enough writer that she wouldn’t use someone else’s words as hers. And, while the WSJ might be in the tank for McCain, I doubt they’d take the credibility hit of letting the McCain campaign write their articles (Noonan’s words in the youtube video are used almost verbatim in her WSJ column: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122300786229301597.html).

It simply doesn’t pass the basic credibility test that this ad is evidence of pre-written quotes being fed to journalists.

All that said, I like reading this blog, mainly for its niche of pointing out police abuses. When it strays into other political commentary, I find it less insightful.

No one is forcing you to read this site.

As I explained in the update, the McCain campaign had no problem sending out pre-written quotes from its own campaign manager declaring victory before the first debate even started.

There’s plenty of reason to question if this was more than merely forgetting to an attribution to the ad.

But will The Agitator correct the “white lie” that it’s not?

Experience leads me to conclude no — and that’s a shame, because it’s just another step down the road to debasement of integrity.

I can appreciate your disdain for Palin and McCain. They do deserve all the criticism they are getting. But I have noticed in the past several months that you’re running about 98% against them, and maybe 2% against Obama and Biden.

I’ll put good money up to wager that two years from now, when Obama’s administration is trashing your own liberties more than you thought possible in such a short time period, you’ll look back at all these postings and wonder why you had next to nothing to say about them.

I just don’t get you on this. You recognize so many outrages against individual rights, but you’ve got a huge blind spot once there is an election, I think.

Just resolve to stay home every election day (as a matter of respecting your neighbors’ rights, i.e., not giving any politician the permission to violate said rights). After a couple of elections have passed, you’ll learn to ignore the hype and see them as as the rotten bastards they are. And, you’ll lose any desire to pick sides.

This is pretty standard marketing stuff. I imagine that nearly every campaign works that way for efficiency’s sake with ads. You have six words to work with; it’s not like re-writing the Federalist papers.

chsw

* Obama, as the candidate of the Evil Party, deserves to President when the socialist-welfare state goes bankrupt thoroughly and completely as the $54 trillion dollar credit-default-swap derivatives debt monster eats the world alive & screaming, ushering in Great Depression II.

Not even the combined forces of the Justice League and the Powerpuff Girls can stop it now.

* Congress? Tahnks, Jackoffs. It deserves to burn to the ground.