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. Paul Kiel has all the shocking details in today’s Must Read.
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