Team McCain even lies about FactCheck findings!

The McCain campaign apparently wouldn't know the truth if it was a 6 foot rattler wrapped around their cowboy boots.

Now they are even lying about what nonpartisan truth-in-campaigning organization FactCheck.org said about false emails circulating about GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin, distorting what FactCheck wrote to attempt to tie the emails to the Obama campaign.

FactCheck -- in their circumspect way -- calls the McCain distortions "less than honest":

A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama.

Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

FactCheck takes the McCain campaign to task for violating their copyright policy (an increasingly common complaint about the McCain campaign from writers and even musicians whose intellectual property has been misused and modified by McCain's campaign):

We don't object to people reprinting our articles. In fact, our copyright policy encourages it. But we've also asked that "the editorial integrity of the article be preserved" and told those who use our items that "you should not edit the original in such a way as to alter the message."

Less Than Honest

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said "completely false" attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.

They call the ad "Fact Check." It says "the attacks on Gov. Palin have been called 'completely false' ... 'misleading.' " On screen is a still photo of a grim-faced Obama. Our words are accurately quoted, but they had nothing to do with Obama.