The second story also had to do with the election, this time he showed scenes from the View, where McCain openly lied about how Palin didn't support earmarks. The hosts, including Barbara Walters, call McCain out on lying, and Anderson cues the pundits who question if McCain has gone too far stretching the truth. David Gergen says McCain went "way beyond normal bounds" and says journalists are getting angry and not putting up with it any more.
Anderson further says McCain said today that Obama didn't in fact call Palin a pig, although last week he approved the commercial saying he did.
A pundit from Time explains these discrepancies by saying that McCain is clearly uncomfortable with the campaign they are running. By having to partially go back to the truth and explain himself, he is revealing how uncomfortable he is lying and running these messages.
The pundits also go into how many of McCain's quotes are run out of context, including remarks about the recession and the middle class being at $5 million.
A couple things I noted from Anderson Cooper's segment are that first of all, the story about the economy and issues voters may care about was substantially shorter than the second story about McCain lying in the campaign. Although it is important to call McCain out for not telling the truth, I think it is far more important for voters to see how each candidate plans to solve the economic problems of the country.
Second, I think they should have interviewed McCain himself in the second story and asked him why he has stretched the truth so much. I don't think they should have pundits on making excuses for him, such as saying that he is "clearly uncomfortable" with the campaign and that he is, in fact, a good person who really doesn't want to lie that much. They just seem to be making excuses for him and making voters feel sorry for this poor candidate that is being forced by his campaign to say things he really doesn't mean.
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