Rove aides take charge of McCain campaign, roll out Big Lie ads

Now that key aides to George Bush's political svengali, Karl Rove, have moved into the top positions of John McCain's campaign, they've begun the roll-out of a series of so-called Big Lie ads -- ads which take an outrageous lie and repeat and repeat it until their claims have become part of the political landscape (the so-called "swiftboating" of John Kerry and a whispered lie campaign against none other than John McCain, himself, in his 2000 bid for the GOP nomination against Bush where Rove agents spread false rumors about McCain's family and made racist attacks on his adopted daughter).

Apparently, John McCain has found enormous moral flexibility within himself, as he's not only moved the Rove acolytes into top positions in his campaign but embraced the sleazy Big Lie tactics Rove has used in all his campaigns, tactics which were pioneered by Hitler's own propaganda czar, Josef Goebbels.

Nonpartisan honesty-in-campaigning advocacy group, FactCheck.org thoroughly explores the lies in McCain's new ad, "Celeb" explaining, in part:

Summary
McCain's new ad claims that Obama "says he'll raise taxes on electricity." That's false. Obama says no such thing.

McCain relies on a single quote from Obama who once – and only once so far as we can find – suggested taxing "dirty energy," including coal and natural gas. That was in response to a reporter's suggestion that a tax on wind power could fund education. Obama isn't proposing any new tax on electricity or "dirty energy" as part of his platform, and he never has.

FactCheck goes on to point out that McCain has actually advocated the same policies his ads attempt to use to smear Obama:

Of course, by that standard, John McCain also favors raising taxes on electricity. McCain's Web site prominently proclaims his support for a cap-and-trade program, and in 2003, McCain and then-Democrat Joe Lieberman jointly sponsored legislation that would have implemented a cap-and-trade system.