‘McCain Camp Tells NYT: Lay Off Cindy, Find Obama’s “Dealer”‘–Nation.com headline
The Nation
posted by John Nichols on 10/19/2008 @ 7:24pm
Wow, the McCain campaign really hated that New York Times profile of Cindy McCain.
OK, Cindy did come off as slightly vapid and, well, weird — especially the Princess Diana obsession.
But the reaction from the Republican presidential candidate’s camp would make you think that Times reporters Jodi Kantor and David M. Halbfinger portrayed John McCain’s second wife as Evita.
Freaked out by references to Cindy McCain’s well-documented history of drug abuse, the McCain campaign’s lawyer, John Dowd, griped in a pre-publication letter to the editor of The Times: “You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father.”
That’s just a taste of the ugliness.
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