October 18, 2006

Darcy Burnocchio

Darcy Burner's latest ad delivers more lies. [Video]:[

Now newspaper reports prove that Reichert and his Republican friends aren't telling the truth about Darcy Burner's position on taxes. They know their attack ads are lies.
First, Reichert's ad [video] correctly cites Burner's statement on the "Equal Time" radio show ("We should let the tax cuts expire " Apr. 21, audio at 19:07 ), along with this Treasury press release explaining the consequences of letting the tax cuts expire.

Second, Burner is lying about the newspaper reports. The ad flashes the word "inaccuracies" citing the Seattle Times of 9/24. But that article said nothing about taxes.

Sheesh.

Ironicially, Burner's people recently accused Reichert of falsely citing the same article in the ad at question above. It was a substantively correct paraphrasing, erroneously braced with quotes. (The Reichert campaign acknowledged the error and said they would remove the quotes. My copy of the video linked above is the original). But the ad's allegation, that Burner's ads contained "inaccuracies" about Reichert's support for veterans' healthcare was actually an understatement, clarified by the Times editorial which said Burner's ad "shamelessly obfuscates the truth". And the only "inaccuracies" that the 9/24 article found on Reichert was that an NRCC flyer slightly overstated the number of elections that Burner failed to vote in (the flyer counted 10, when it was actually 9)

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