Via Squawkbox, FactCheck.org reviewed Spike Maynard's ad against Nick Rahall and called it's claims false:
But what is the Arab American Leadership Council's connection to the Muslim Brotherhood? The article doesn't say, so we called the author, Steven Allen Adams. We told him we were having a hard time following the logic, because his article did not support the claim that the Arab American Leadership Council "has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood."
After re-reading his item, Adams said: "I'm not even following my own logic on it, which is a terrible thing to say.
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Even if this innuendo is true - and there is no evidence it is - it's clear to us that the Maynard campaign is employing tortured logic to falsely link Rahall to terrorism. Instead of calling this ad "Five," the Maynard campaign could have called it "Six" - as in "Six Degrees of Separation."
Spike Maynard and his campaign are liars.
I've got an idea: Instead of raising false questions about Nick Rahall's associations, why doesn't Spike answer questions about his association with the married president of West Virginia for Life?
Here, around midnight at a Charleston bar, are Spike Maynard and Karen Cross, whose organization endorsed Spike after years of endorsements of Nick Rahall. What was her group's motivation to switch endorsements? Were the motivations political? Were they based off false claims Spike made like in this debunked commercial?
Here is another shot:
And another
Here's another photo of Spike Maynard with Karen Cross
Here's another of Spike Maynard with Karen Cross
As FactCheck.org points out there's six degrees of separation between Rahall's association with the people the Spike ad links him to, but as you can see from the photos, there's very little separating Spike from Karen Cross, the president of West Virginia for Life.
Why did West Virginia for Life associate with the corrupt Spike Maynard?
I think that's something the press and FactCheck.org should fact check. |
