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New York Times: McCain Said '100'; Opponents Latch On (3/27/08) by Kate Phillips
In another example of corporate media's dubious efforts to "fact-check" political claims, Phillips says that McCain's Democratic opponents and YouTube parodies "mischaracterize and distort" McCain's assertion that the U.S. could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred" years. Phillips' objection seems to be that critics do not make clear that McCain was talking about a fantasy world where one can keep U.S. troops "in a very volatile part of the world where Al-Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day" and yet not have "Americans...being injured or harmed or wounded or killed." Treating McCain's comment as though it referred to the real world, where such a situation is highly unlikely, is patently unfair.
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