Reply #2: The GOP plays this game well.

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McCain has "suspended" a staffer for circulating a nasty video about Senator Obama. He says there is no tolerance for such behavior in his campaign and he will fire anyone who does it. He is so adamant about it that he alerted the media and told them all about it. And the media dutifully reported McCain's fine decision, citing his commitment to running a clean campaign and disowning of this horrible video --- and then they showed the name and URL on the Youtube site, just in case anyone needed to see the scurrilous video over which the good man McCain so righteously suspended his campaign staffer.

I'm sure that staffer will be amply rewarded for taking the bullet to get that video "out there." That was, after all, the point.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-out-there-by-digby-so-i-just-saw.html