John Fund reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that “Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background.”
That report has ricocheted around the right wing echo chamber. Hannity picked it up last night on Fox News. A McCain surrogate parroted it today on Fox. Now, the McCain camp has an ad out repeating the Fund report, with images of a pack of wolves. This all after Marc Ambinder posted a statement from the DNC yesterday denying any such team had been dispatched.
The DNC has reiterated those denials today, and the Obama camp denies it as well (pointing to the DNC statement).
So we called up Fund, and he’s standing by his story, though he could not be more specific about which “Democrats” he was referring to. Hmmm …
(Ed. Note: I guess my only question is, why didn’t the Dems dispatch a team to Alaska?)
