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Paul Krugman: Rove's Third Term

Posted on July 04, 2008

Will the Rovian tactics that the McCain campaign has started to employ such as willful misinterpretation and distortion of remarks so as to impugn the patriotism of Democrats work again in this election?:Rove's Third Term, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn't scream. Hillary Clinton didn't say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn't impugn John McCain's military service. ...Again and again we've had media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never act...

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