The McCain/Media Narrative Strikes Again

According to Greg Sargent on Talking Points Memo, the mainstream media sources have again failed to reveal a McCain inaccuracy. In a recent ad, John McCain attacks Barack Obama for canceling his visit to a U.S. Army base in Germany:


As you can see in the ad, McCain stated, "Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras." CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press each ran stories about McCain's ad, and although each note the Obama campaign's denunciation of its claim, not a single one of these reports explained, what the pentagon confirmed, that the ad is actually based on fallacy.

The real reason Obama didn't visit, as many indie-journalists like Sargent quickly uncovered, was eventually picked up and reported on by NBC's Andrea Mitchell:

"That there was never a plan for Obama to take the press to Landstuhl, despite the claim by McCain folks and others. The plan was to go with his military aide, retired General Scott Gration. The Pentagon said Gration was off-limits because he had joined the campaign-violating rules that it not be a political stop.

Obama had gone to see wounded troops in Iraq earlier in the week, without even confirming he'd been there. No press, no pictures. He has done the same when he goes to Walter Reed -- never any press."

Again, it takes an independent journalist to point this out to the public and again, MSNBC apparently aware of the Blogshere, but still a half-step behind, picked it up.