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Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/25/2008
Who Do You Believe?
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The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face with a knife by a black mugger because she was ...

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Talking Points Memo:  Time for Answers

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The McCain Camp Denies

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Marty Kaplan: Move Over, Willie Horton

Discourse.net:  FMB (Penultimate Edition)

thedailybeast.com - 10/25/2008
The McCain Mutiny
— thedailybeast.com — Steve Schmidt and his colleagues took John McCain further than he had any reasonable right to, given the political climate. The most popular parlor game in Washington, D.C., these days is the bludgeoning of the McCain campaign. It started with Bill ... (more) The McCain Mutiny

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article.nationalreview.com - 10/24/2008
Krauthammer: McCain Gets My Vote
— article.nationalreview.com — Don't count me among the wet-fingered conservative ship-jumpers. (more) Krauthammer: McCain Gets My Vote

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realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
McCain for President
— realclearpolitics.com — WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ... (more) McCain for President

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Time for Answers
Talking Points Memo — ... yesterday, McCain Pennsylvania communications director Peter Feldman pushed reporters on a highly incendiary version of Todd's hoax -- providing reporters with quotes from the fictitious attacker and telling them the the "B" scratched on Todd's face stood for "Barack." As the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson aptly put it, Feldman's actions showed "not just a willingness to believe it but an eagerness to incite a ... racial backlash against the Obama campaign." ...

The McCain Camp Denies
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... and here. I can see why Brian Rogers would deny it. If true, it proves the McCain campaign has a race-baiter hysteric on its state staff. ...

Marty Kaplan: Move Over, Willie Horton
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the national McCain campaign, claimed that the KDKA and WPXI stories were the product of "sloppy reporting," that the incendiary quotes -- despite on-the-record statements about their source by both stations -- didn't come from Peter Feldman, but rather from the police. Even if you believe that Peter Feldman was just repeating what he had heard from the police, it is nevertheless arguable, as Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said, that Mr. Feldman's actions showed "not just a willingness to believe it, but an eagerness to incite a ...

FMB (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Penultimate Edition)
Discourse.net — Vote Early. Friday Political Animal Still waiting (for Palin’s medical records) TPM, You Need to Know Flashback: McCain’s Sleaze-o-rama The Buzz, Crowley: Obama will win Florida Forbes.com, Harvard Kennedy School - David M. Cutler and J. Bradford DeLong commentary: Obama Can Cure Health Care’s Ills Glenn Greenwald, Salon, Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment Political Animal, As nasty as she wants to be Bruce ...

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