[Cicero]

Interesting. Use the more recent affair, which in fact isn’t very recent and has no evidence to support it, to go back to McCain’s divorce and his marriage to Cindy.

I have always thought that earlier episode was pretty cheesy, but it’s interesting how they take such old news and make it seem current. First tie it to a faked up affair and then tie it to a NY Times story that just appeared TODAY!

Of course, as McCain points out in Bumiller’s followup piece in The Times, The Times lacks any credibility.

[CZB]

Interesting. Use the more recent affair, which in fact isn’t very recent and has no evidence to support it, to go back to McCain’s divorce and his marriage to Cindy.

I have always thought that earlier episode was pretty cheesy, but it’s interesting how they take such old news and make it seem current. First tie it to a faked up affair and then tie it to a NY Times story that just appeared TODAY!

Of course, as McCain points out in Bumiller’s followup piece in The Times, The Times lacks any credibility.

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Yes. This is a technique in which a “second-day lead” gives the original, if throughly bogus report an air of credibility. It was a technique perfected by the KGB in the way they would use African newspapers (that they controlled) to “break” stories and thus seduce European newspapers into picking up the stories and thus add credibility to completely fictionalized accounts of American atrocities in Vietnam (which had not occurred but never mind that). Very effective. The staff at the NY Times have studied their masters well.