Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM Pacific

Pathological Liar Watch, Cont'd

They even lie about the size of their crowds.

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it.

A WaPo reporter estimated the crowd size at 8,000.

Here's another lie:

The McCain campaign said 10,000 people showed up at the Consol Energy Arena in Washington, Pennsylvania, home of the Washington Wild Things baseball team.

The campaign attributed that estimate, and several that followed, to U.S. Secret Service figures, based on the number of people who passed through magnetometers.

"We didn't provide any numbers to the campaign,'' said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service.

If you liked the last eight years of lies, just wait for the McCain-Palin administration.