No, No and No

I haven’t had a chance to say much about the day’s events yet. I’ve been trying to get over a cold which seems much more tenacious than the usual ones. Seems others have too — I guess it’s going around. We’ve already given you our take on the McCain story in a few posts on different TPM sites — the consensus being that at least on the basis of what made it into print it seems a tad thin. But a few thoughts occurred to me as I was watching McCain’s presser. As Paul Kiel pointed out earlier today, McCain at best misstated the facts of the FCC matter. I think I also heard him say that his office made no effort to get the Times not to run the story? Can he possibly be serious about that? Didn’t he hire Bob Bennett to take this up with the Times back in December? And has he really not talked to John Weaver about this since they found out the Times was working the story? That’s difficult for me to believe though it’s certainly more possible than the ‘no effort to kill the story’ line which is demonstrably false.