{"id":1224,"date":"2008-02-23T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2008-02-23T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T15:35:26","slug":"is-dr-dean-illiterate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Is Dr. Dean Illiterate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire Blog<\/a> reports that the NY Time’s sliming of John McCain has become a money-raising bonanza for Team McCain;<\/p>\n

[T]he Republican National Committee and Sen. John McCain\u2019s presidential campaign wasted no time yesterday sending out email fund-raising pitches riffing off a highly publicized front-page New York Times story that questions McCain\u2019s record on ethics and suggests he may have had an extramarital affair.<\/p>\n

It appears to have been effective. Reports circulated this afternoon that the McCain campaign has been flooded with donations since the plea went out. Conservative pundits, like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, have also been giving McCain some free airtime, using their shows to bash the Times\u2019 decision to run the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It worked so well, Howard Dean wants to cash in on the free publicity, too, and sent out his own email solicitation;<\/p>\n

Republicans \u201cspent the day breathlessly assailing the New York Times as \u2018liberal,\u2019 ignoring the ethics lapses the team of reporters had uncovered,\u201d Dean writes, \u201cThe fact is, John McCain is facing legitimate questions about lobbyists, favors, and campaign contributions, just as he did during the Keating Five scandal that nearly derailed his political career twenty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dean continued: \u201cSeeing more dollar signs, the McCain campaign and the RNC decided to jump at the chance to take advantage of the distraction they had created to raise money. They had spent the day firing their supporters up, trying desperately to change the subject, and then they literally cashed in on it. It was textbook sleaze. So, let\u2019s hit back.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hit back against what, Howie? Hit back against Republicans defending the lies and innuendo being propagated against them? Instead of taking the high ground and criticizing the New York Times like the rest of the honest Left, Dean takes the Dan Rather “fake but accurate” approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire Blog reports that the NY Time’s sliming of John McCain … Is Dr. Dean Illiterate?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}