McCain Should Read A Newspaper

McCain in an interview yesterday with CNN:

This crisis, this conflagration, was ignited by the housing crisis. And it was Fannie and Freddie, and Wall Street, and corruption -- or certainly cronyism in Washington, D.C. that caused it.

But private sector loans that caused the crisis, with no evidence of corruption or cronyism to be found. These being facts they obviously get in the way of McCain's fictional narrative, but they ought not get in the way of journalists, who seem constitutionally unable to ask follow-up questions when politicians lie to their faces.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008