The non-partisan watchdog group Factcheck.org says Republican John McCain is running a false radio ad in four swing states. The ad, on stations in Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, says Democrat Barack Obama opposes clean coal technology.
The ad rests on something vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said to a voter on a rope line. However, Obama has been pushing clean coal technology since May 2007 and BIden, when he was running for president, also supported it.
The group said that "regardless of Biden's remark on the rope line, it's Obama policy proposals that the ticket is running on and would promote if the Democrats win the White House."
CBS News has a story on its interview yesterday with McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, in which McCain argues that a misstatement she made about Pakistan was "gotcha journalism" because she was answering an informal question from a voter. The writer asks the McCain campaign why Biden's rope line gaffe on coal was "worthy of ridicule, while Palin's flub deserved a pass."
Update at 5:40 p.m. ET: Factcheck is now pointing out that an Obama radio ad that says McCain opposes federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is wrong.
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