McCain Shovels, Press Eats - Or Did McCain creates his own controversy?

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McCain Shovels, Press Eats

We'll have a bit more on this today. But if you check your morning paper, most of them have a story about John McCain standing tall and fighting back against horrible negative campaigning down in South Carolina, especially with that flyer attacking McCain's war record. But as near as we can tell the flyer or mailer actually isn't a flyer or mailer because it was never fly'd or mailed to anyone. The guy behind it just mailed it to a lot of newspaper editors. Then the McCain camp got in the act by publicizing the 'smear' with a big press release. And everything kind of went from there.

Seems the media still fall for the same old tricks.

[TwilightGardener]

1. I was denounced yesterday for suggesting that McCain was somehow

behind this "smear", but I still think this is his way of either drumming up sympathy in SC or heading off any swiftboating or criticism. Anything to win.