John Manning
Guest
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: FOX News reporter lies about McCain GI Bill support |
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Fox's Campaign Carl Lies, Gives McCain Credit For Fictitious GI Bill
Provision
Yesterday, while speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) attempted to steal credit for the GI Bill that he actively
opposed. Fox News’s Carl Cameron gave McCain’s efforts a major boost
last night, declaring that McCain successfully changed the GI Bill — to
create “a more proportionate award” of benefits — and thus was able to
support it:
CAMERON: John McCain initially took some opposition to it [the GI
Bill], because in McCain’s view, it didn’t proportionately give GI
benefits to servicemen and women, depending on how long they were
actually in active duty and service. He thought it should be a more
proportionate award. He fought for it, it was inserted into the
legislation, and in the end, McCain supported it.
The GI Bill as approved in no way resembles McCain’s so-called
proportional proposal. The GI Bill provides 100 percent tuition payments
to those who have served 36 months in active duty, and gives 80 percent
to those who have served 24 months. By contrast, under McCain’s
proposal, a soldier would have had to serve four times as long — 12
years in active duty – to be eligible for the most generous benefits.
McCain has offered a handful of excuses why he did not support the GI
Bill, claiming it was too expensive, too generous, or might somehow
hamper retention rates. The fact is that McCain was always “full of it”
on the bill, and now — with the help of Fox News — he’s simply trying to
rewrite history.
Links: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/19/mccain-cameron-gi-bill/ |
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