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huffingtonpost.com - 9/10/2008
Ari Melber: McCain Plays Gender Card in Pig Ploy
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LEBANON, Virg -- Sen. John McCain played the gender card on Tuesday night, seizing on a hackneyed statement by Sen. Barack Obama to claim, rather implausibly, that the Democratic nominee was calling Gov. Sarah Palin a pig. To even entertain McCain's far-fetched attack, one would have to ...

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News — ... . The McCain campaign is playing the gender card and is falsely claiming that Obama is being sexist, writes The Huffington Post's Ari Melber . But neither Obama's "pig" remark nor his remark about an "old fish" was an accident, according to Townhall's ...

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