STOP!

If I hear another talking head on CNN spout off, “McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years!” I think I might scream. While Obama and Clinton’s ridiculous comments tend to dissipate within a week or two of their utterance the media has been parroting this horrendous misrepresentation of what McCain actually said for months now.

Here’s the truth, when asked about a comment President Bush made that he would stay in Iraq for 50 years if necessary McCain responded, “make it 100.” Of course what you won’t hear on CNN is that he went on to explain that we still have soldiers based in almost every country we have ever won a war against, including Japan and South Korea. The reality is McCain was expressing two facts; first that he would not pull troops out of Iraq until the country is stable, and secondly that even after the majority of troops have been withdrawn some will remain in U.S. bases in the country.

The media’s blatant misrepresentation of this ten second clip is disgraceful, and it needs to stop.