McCain Campaign Attacks TPM, Keeps Denying Our "Carved B" Story

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McCain Campaign Attacks TPM, Keeps Denying Our "Carved B" Story
By Greg Sargent - October 29, 2008, 10:53AM
Last Friday we reported here that McCain's Pennsylvania spokesperson fed local reporters a highly incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on the McCain volunteer well before the facts were in, telling reporters outright that the "B" carved into the victim's face stood for Barack.

The McCain campaign has now denied the story on two separate occasions, faulting TPM's reporting on it.

"The liberal blog post" has "no basis in fact," a McCain spokesperson has now told Channel 4 in Pittsburgh, in a reference to our story. Before that, McCain national spokesperson Brian Rogers denied the story to MSNBC, claiming sloppy reporting by the Pennsylvania reporters.

Let's be as clear as possible here: Two separate news organizations in Pennsylvania are on record saying that McCain's Pennsylvania spokesperson gave them the incendiary version of the story.

Either those news organizations independently decided to lie and smear the McCain campaign in identical ways, or the McCain campaign is lying in its denials.

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