MAKING SHIT UP, PART II

This time it's McCain, Palin and probably Sean Hannity, too.

October 29, 2008, 1:26 pm
McCain Accuses L.A. Times of Holding Back Obama Video
Laura Meckler reports from Miami on the presidential race.
Washington Wire
Wall Street Journal

John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, today accused the Los Angeles Times of withholding a videotape of an event that he asserted was attended by both Barack Obama and 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.

Today, McCain repeated the call in an interview with a Cuban radio station, accusing the newspaper of bias and asserting that Ayers was at the event as well—a point that has not been reported anywhere. Palin made the same points from the stump.

It was not clear whether Ayers was actually at the dinner. Asked for evidence that he was, McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb pointed to a 2005 New York Sun story that mentioned that Ayers had offered a testimonial to Khalidi that was included in a book created for the farewell event, held to mark his departure from Chicago to take a job in New York, where he is a professor at Columbia University.

Asked whether that story really shows that Ayers was at the dinner, Goldfarb said: “We want to know what happened at the dinner–you all need to report the answers.”