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November 01, 2008

McCain Spokesman Wusses Out On CNN

Jason Linkins at The Huffington Post:

Oh, dear. Michael Goldfarb, who's clearly better off blogging about ABBA and criticizing people for playing Dungeons and Dragons, just pooped his pants on national television. The McCain campaign is making a last ditch effort to make SCARY MUSLIM NOISES at Barack Obama, and since Goldfarb doesn't have any sort of reputation worth salvaging, it figures that he'd be doing duty here.

But CNN's Rick Sanchez calls Goldfarb out for the hypocrisy of hyping a sinister connection between Obama and a guy that McCain funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to, and from there, Goldfarb goes right off the rails, refusing to answer Sanchez's questions with anything other than intimations. Repeatedly asked to name a second anti-Semite that Obama allegedly "pals around with," Goldfarb does nothing but issue hollow, Page Six-style intimations.

What a gutless wonder. And here I'd been led to believe that this campaign took its cues from some kind of war hero.

Posted by Abbas Raza at 08:52 AM | Permalink

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Ha, thanks for sharing that. Almost as good as the Tucker Bounds video from a month or so ago.

I wonder though if Goldfarb is thinking of Rev. Wright, but he is officially not allowed to talk about rev Wright, because McCain said it was out of bounds?

Posted by: t | Nov 1, 2008 1:44:57 PM

It is more "Anti-American" to be using McCarthy-era rhetoric than to ask why Isreal's existence is upsetting so many people.

Posted by: Forest | Nov 1, 2008 2:45:45 PM

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