Echoing a falsehood she has made before, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson said that the "first time" Sen. John McCain "really did start sharing some personal moments" about his prisoner of war experience in Vietnam was during his August 16 appearance at a forum at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Referring to the assertion by former President Jimmy Carter that "I think that John McCain is milking every possible drop of advantage from that unfortunate experience in his early military life," Carlson claimed on the August 29 edition of Fox & Friends: "On its face, it's an amazing statement, but it's also amazing when you start to analyze it because most people would say that John McCain hasn't talked enough about his POW experience, and the first time that he really did start sharing some personal moments about that, which were very tough for him to do, was during the Saddleback forum with Rick Warren a few weeks ago."

Previously, while discussing McCain's appearance at Saddleback during the August 19 edition of Fox & Friends Carlson asserted that McCain "doesn't like to talk about when he was a POW." In fact, McCain repeatedly referred to his POW experience before the Saddleback forum, including during the current campaign -- for instance, during a July 9 interview with Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV.

Further, in an August 28 Time article headlined "Is McCain Overplaying the POW Card?" Michael Scherer reported:

When he first ran for Congress in Arizona nearly three decades ago, John McCain had one clear liability: he wasn't from the state, and he could count the number of years he had lived there on a couple of fingers.

So his primary opponent, state senator Jim Mack, attacked him as a Johnny-come-lately. To counter the charge, at a candidate forum, McCain offered a decidedly pointed response. "I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things," he said. "As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

McCain's heroic biography, as a Navy veteran and former prisoner of war, gave him a clear out for the carpetbagger critique. It was widely seen as a devastating response -- and a key turning point in McCain's early political career.

Twenty-six years later, McCain has returned to the same tactic, but some critics say he is overplaying his trump card.

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Indeed, from the beginning of the campaign, McCain has consistently made his time in captivity a feature of his stump speech. On tours through New Hampshire and Iowa, he told a cycle of stories: a tale about a prison mate who was caught and beaten for sewing an American flag, and one about a North Vietnamese prison guard who drew a cross in the dirt to demonstrate to McCain his Christian faith. He has also described in some detail the painful rope bonds that his captors would tie him in overnight.

Moreover, contrary to Carlson's assertion that McCain had not shared his "personal moments" relating to his POW experience before appearing at Saddleback, McCain has repeatedly specifically talked about his refusal to accept early release from the North Vietnamese. For instance, McCain repeatedly refers to his refusal to accept an early release in his 1999 book, Faith of My Fathers (Random House). For example, on Page 235 of the paperback edition, McCain writes:

I wanted to say yes. I badly wanted to go home. I was tired and sick, and despite my bad attitude, I was often afraid. But I couldn't keep from my own counsel the knowledge of how my release would affect my father, and my fellow prisoners. I knew what the Vietnamese hoped to gain from my release.

From the August 29 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Now think about the Democratic National Convention that we saw: all the big names -- Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, of course, Barack Obama, himself -- John Kerry is speaking yesterday as well. Who are we missing? What big-name Democrat --

STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Sure.

KILMEADE: -- did not have a prominent role?

DOOCY: Well, I think you're forgetting the guy who won the Nobel Prize for peace in the world.

CARLSON: Which one?

DOOCY: Well, I'm talking this time about Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter sat down for an interview with USA Today and the Gannett News Service, and what he said about John McCain's biography and the campaign is extraordinary. Listen to this.

CARTER [video clip]: I think that John McCain is milking every possible drop of advantage from that unfortunate experience in his early military life.

DOOCY: Did you hear that? He said, "John McCain is milking every possible drop of advantage" from his POW status.

CARLSON: Well, it's an amazing statement.

DOOCY: Milking that he was a POW.

CARLSON: On its face, it's an amazing statement, but it's also amazing when you start to analyze it, because most people would say that John McCain hasn't talked enough about his POW experience, and the first time that he really did start sharing some personal moments about that, which were very tough for him to do, was during the Saddleback forum with Rick Warren a few weeks ago.

KILMEADE: He said that every question that went his way, that went his way from Rick Warren, he put it back to his POW status. And I'll tell you what, Jimmy Carter is and was a naval officer for seven years, but now you talk about --

DOOCY: Which is kind of scary, Brian, because he was on one of those tactical nuclear submarines, this guy, with his finger on the button.

KILMEADE: Yeah, I know.

DOOCY: That doesn't scare you?

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As to be expected, Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively showed up for her Late Show with David Letterman appearance wearing a short dress and showing off her legs as much as possible. At this point I think it’s pretty obvious that showing off your legs is a prerequisite if you want to be a guest on Letterman. And considering Lively is a leggy celebrity on her own, it all works out nicely, especially for us.

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On the August 28 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, co-hosts Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer echoed Republican talking points mocking the stage at Invesco Field in Denver, where Sen. Barack Obama plans to give his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for president. After Sawyer noted that Republicans were "making fun of" the stage, which includes a structure with columns, Roberts responded by chanting, "Toga! Toga!" Sawyer replied: "You're right. That's what they're saying," and then aired pictures of people in togas, saying the Republicans circulated them. Neither Roberts nor Sawyer noted the Obama campaign response, which included pointing out that the stage at the Republican National Convention in 2004 also included columns.

Also during the broadcast, Roberts described the stage as "transformed with Greek-like columns and something the Republicans, yes, wasted no time in pointing out," and Sawyer did not challenge Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty when he said in an interview that the stage had a "Roman-like façade" without much substance behind it, and that Obama wanted to appear " 'emperor-like' in the setting." At no point did either Roberts or Sawyer note that the stage at the RNC in 2004 had a columned backdrop, as highlighted by Ben Smith in an August 27 post on his Politico blog, which the Obama campaign reportedly circulated. Smith wrote, "Republicans who are mocking Obama's appearance haven't mentioned it, but George W. Bush accepted his own nomination in 2004 on a set with a similar neoclassical theme, with columns rising on either side of him," illustrated with these photographs:

With the Yankees New York Yankees ' postseason hopes slipping away, Hank Steinbrenner made a rare appearance in The Bronx last night and issued a warning. You have to believe Hank is pretty disappointed with A-Rod's season. You know, the kind of spots you get pain $30 million a year to produce in.

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Nice profile of fashion designer Marc Jacobs, creative head of Louis Vuitton, in the New Yorker this week. Jacobs used to be a chunky unfashionable pasty-white kind of guy but has recently started dressing the part and now looks like he could model for one of LV's magazine ads.

Jacobs walked outside to the back garden, to take in the evening amid the boxwood. "I like the fact that people are sort of commenting on my appearance," he said. "I work on these things! So to have them recognized, even if sometimes I don't like the way they're recognized, I like that they are, and I feel good that I can admit that, instead of being ashamed." He paused. "I'm going to get a 'shameless' tattoo next," he said, the Eiffel Tower sparkling behind him in the night sky. "That's what I think everyone should aspire to in life: being shameless."

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