Following up on the post below this one, it appears that the McCain campaign has, on at least three occasions today, argued that there is a conspiracy to attack his military record. Here is one:
"Well, I think it's nice to know that" Clark thinks McCain is "honorable" and a "personal hero," McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina told Mitchell in response. "I think it's crystal clear Clark is a surrogate of the campaign and is responding to direction from the campaign."
With no evidence and lots of dismissive sarcasm, the McCain campaign just declared, without any evidence, that the Obama campaign is engaged in a conspiracy to attack McCain's military service. That strikes me as quite an unusual allegation for a presidential campaign to make. The tone is also strange, given that Republicans are arguing Obama is supposedly the type of person who "makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."
Earlier in the day, there were more snide conspiracy allegations from the McCain campaign:
Campaign spokesman Brian Rogers added, the Obama campaign "supposedly repudiate it ... if this is the kind of wink and a nod game they want to play, that's fine, but spare us" the talk of new politics.
"But spare us?" Why not just throw in a "whatev" at the end of the sentence? And who is winking and who is nodding anyway, and what evidence do they have of this?
And as I already quoted, here are some more breathless, sarcastic, conspiracy allegations from the McCain campaign:
If you didn't think this was a coordinated attack on John McCain's credentials before, it's clear now that it is. Barack Obama's surrogates are telling the McCain campaign to "calm down" about attacks on his military record? Seriously? Now somehow Wes Clark's attacks are John McCain's fault?
Don't all of these public, sarcastic, snide conspiracy allegations seem unusual to the journalists covering this "story?" It is surprisingly irrational, and arrogant behavior from a presidential campaign. It would be nice for someone on the teevee to point this out. |
