{"id":1096,"date":"2008-10-16T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2008-10-16T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:57:14","slug":"john-mccain-and-citizens-against-government-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"John McCain And Citizens Against Government Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that all three presidential debates have been concluded, there is a notable thread of consistency that John McCain maintained throughout the process. In all three debates he cited <em>Citizens Against Government Waste<\/em> (CAGW) as a non-partisan watchdog group that voters could go turn for more information about his policies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/14\/ct.presidential.debate1.transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\">Debate 1<\/a>: I suggest that people go up on the Web site of Citizens Against Government Waste, and they&#8217;ll look at those projects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/07\/presidential.debate.transcript\/?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\">Debate 2<\/a>: And now I suggest that maybe you go to some of these organizations that are the watchdogs of what we do, like the Citizens Against Government Waste or the National Taxpayers Union or these other organizations that watch us all the time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/10\/15\/debate.transcript\/?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\">Debate 3<\/a>: Let&#8217;s look at it as graded by the National Taxpayers Union and the Citizens Against Government Waste and the other watchdog organizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only problem is that CAGW is anything but non-partisan. Last month I wrote about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1050\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News used CAGW<\/a> as a source for a story on earmarks by correspondent William La Jeunesse (who may be the most politically biased reporter on Fox, and that&#8217;s saying something).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;[CAGW] has publicly endorsed McCain for president and donated $11,000.00 to him or to PACs he controls. CAGW has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=934\" target=\"_blank\">worked as a shill<\/a> to attack McCain opponents in a manner that may have violated election law. It has also been connected to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">On the board of CAGW is long-time McCain associate, Orson Swindle. They met as cell mates in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp where Swindle says that he and McCain <em>&#8216;slept side-by-side for almost two years.&#8217;<\/em> Swindle is now the McCain campaign&#8217;s veterans liaison and was appointed to his campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=960\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Squad<\/a> a couple of months ago.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is McCain&#8217;s idea of a non-partisan source? It&#8217;s not particularly surprising that McCain would exploit his cronies to boost himself. But it would be nice if the press would at least make a small mention of this deceit. Then, maybe I&#8217;m just too idealistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that all three presidential debates have been concluded, there is a notable thread of consistency that John McCain maintained throughout the process. In all three debates he cited Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) as a non-partisan watchdog group that voters could go turn for more information about his policies. Debate 1: I suggest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,8],"tags":[313,33,103,314,390],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-cagw","tag-fox-news","tag-john-mccain","tag-orson-swindle","tag-william-la-jeunesse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1070,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1070","url_meta":{"origin":1096,"position":0},"title":"Random Thoughts: McCain, Palin And Olbermann","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/27\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a few things that are running through my idle mind: On John McCain: In last night's debate, McCain suggested that folks check the website of Citizens Against Government Waste to confirm his allegations about Obama's congressional earmarks. 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Clark's comments will no doubt be controversial, but the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1050,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1050","url_meta":{"origin":1096,"position":3},"title":"Fox News Uses McCain Front Group To Blast Obama","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/10\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A report was broadcast on Fox News today (and published on FoxNews.com) that purported to be an examination of the congressional earmarks of the presidential candidates. As one might expect, the report fell something short of what a reasonable person would call \"fair and balanced.\" Correspondent William La Jeunesse's report\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1065,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1065","url_meta":{"origin":1096,"position":4},"title":"McCain Proposes Suspending Campaigns To Address Economy","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"John McCain has announced that he is suspending his campaign in order to return to Washington to help pass legislation on the financial bailout. He is characterizing this political stunt as a way of avoiding political stunts. 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