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The Headless McCain Smear
The national media played up McCain's victimization in the 2000 South Carolina primary, but strained themselves to avoid identifying the perpetrators.
Glenn Greenwald [2008-01-21]

  • Indeed

    Peggy Noonan was on board yesterday on MTP, only she did place some blame for the smear -- on the VOTERS of SC!

    "MS. NOONAN: I'm not sure what you mean. In terms of his general approach in South Carolina to the folks down there? I think he was running this time as a grand old man of the party, a man you know, a man who backed Ronald Reagan, a man who has spoken for, in a way, Republican conservatism for a quarter century now. I think to some degree, to tell you the truth, he understood, and South Carolina itself understood, that they kind of owed him one, you know? They allowed him to be smeared, they'd given him a bad time in the year 2000, they decked him then, they knocked him out of the race. This time they picked him up and put him back in. So he was a different fellow, but it's a different age and he had different guys to be running against."

    -- timhowe
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    Monday, January 21, 2008 09:29 AM
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