Media reported McCain claim of consistency on abortion, ignored history of waffling

Posted on Wednesday 31 December 1969

[Media Matters for America] Several news outlets uncritically repeated or paraphrased a claim
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made during the May 15 Republican presidential debate
on Fox News, in which he said: “I have kept a consistent position on
right to life. And I haven't changed my position … on even-numbered years or have changed
because of the different offices that I may be running for.” But, as Media Matters for America has documented,
McCain has in fact waffled on the issue;
some conservatives have responded by accusing him of incoherence
and of trying to appeal to both sides in the debate. …


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