Glowing Letters (& emails) In Support Of McCain Are Fakes

[kpete]

The assignment is simple: We are going to write letters to the editor and we are allowed to make up whatever we want -- as long as it adds to the campaign. After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. "Your letters," says Phil Tuchman, "will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we'll place them in local newspapers."

Those glowing letters (and emails) in support of McCain are fakes!

I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign
By Margriet Oostveen

I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq.

Editor's note: The following article was originally published on Sept. 13 in Dutch in the newspaper NRC Handelsblad, where Margriet Oostveen writes a weekly column called "Message From Washington." Oostveen has volunteered in various political campaigns and then written about the experience. She has worked for both John McCain and Barack Obama in this election cycle. Click here to see guidelines, talking points and sample letters the McCain campaign gave her.

more at:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/24/mccain_letters/index.html

[ingac70]

1. Of course...

the Bush camp did similar in '04, except the sent the same letter to papers across the US with different names on them.

[Greyskye]

2. Check out the link w/ the sample letters and guidelines

:wow: This should be made into an ad pointing out this astro-turfing attempt.