John McCain is looking for anything to complain about these days and it showed yesterday by bringing up erroneous claims about Obama's paid 30 minute spot tonight. McCain tried to get in with baseball fans by saying that the World Series is going to be delayed for the ad, but as usual, the truth got in his way.
From Politico:
Another blown talking point for McCain. While John whines about not being able to spend the money on his own 30 minute ad, Barack Obama will be able to lay out his plans for the nation as our next President. Oh and what would a Republican attack be without a little hypocrisy."Our first pitch for the world series is usually around 8:30 anyway – so we didn’t push back the game, it was really just about suspending the pre-game -- you know, Joe Buck," said the account executive, Joe Coppola. "That’s all we did."
He said World Series games this season have begun between 8:22 p.m. and 8:35 p.m.
"We didn’t push back the game at all," he said. He also said Obama had initially arranged to buy the time only if the Series were over before Game Six (in fact, a rain-delayed Game Five will continue tomorrow night), but Fox then decided to sell the campaign the time whether or not the game was played.
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