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White House: Times regularly bombshells GOP nominees

By Ken Herman | Friday, February 22, 2008, 10:08 AM

The White House, through spokesman Scott Stanzel, today joined the conservative chorus criticizing The New York Times for its Thursday story linking John McCain to a female Washington lobbyist.

Says Stanzel:

“Certainly that’s a story that has received a lot of attention. I think a lot of people here in this building with experience in a couple of campaigns have grown accustomed to the fact that during the course of the campaign about seemingly on a monthly basis leading up to the convention and on a weekly basis after that The New York Times does try to drop a bombshell on the Republican nominee. And that is something the Republican nominee has faced in the past and probably will face in this campaign. And sometimes they make incredible leaps to try to drop those bombshells on Republican nominees. So that is something we are aware of and that unfortunately is a fact of life.”

“Having been involved in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns I can tell you there are many times that we had this sense in both of those campaigns.”

Does the Times ever do this to Democratic candidates?

“I’m not saying they never give that kind of treatment. But we see it is pretty regular treatment of the Republican nominee.”

Care to offer examples of previous anti-GOP “bombshells” from the Times?

“Quite frankly, I’d rather not spend my time helping negative stories from the past appear in the news again.”

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By The Moral Values Party

February 22, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

The RNC, and the White House and all the loud mouth conservative political pundits who are clamouring about the TIMES need to shut up. They have HISTORICALLY been the purveyors of this kind of character assassination many times in the past. Oh gee, remember the uproar and impeachment of Bill Clinton by the Republicons….hypocrits one and all.

Yeah seems the Moral values party just doesn’t have as many as they claim. Seems they are …well…just like everyone else. Except they screw the little guy too. I guess they are just so used to screwing everyone that they forget the hipocracy it represents.