Jake Tapper over at ABC takes a look at John McCain’s remark during this morning’s press conference that we noted earlier.
And the McCain campaign tells him that when McCain said “the former chairman of the FCC at the time in 2000 said that was more than an appropriate role for me to play,” he meant the then-former chairman, Reed Hundt (a frequent TPMCafe contributor) — not the FCC chairman in 2000, William Kennard. Kennard, obviously, felt unduly pressured by the letter. Hundt, apparently, thought “nothing was objectionable.”
As we noted in another post, the McCain camp has stretched to the limit of credibility in trying to downplay McCain’s role in the Paxson letters. But certainly this meaning of the line would have substantially changed the way we approached our earlier post.
