McMahon Campaign Takes Credit For Blumenthal Hit, Then Scrubs It

[deminks]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/mcmahon_campaign_takes_credit_for_blumenthal_hit_t.php?ref=fpb

Linda McMahon, one of the Republican opponents of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, spent the morning taking credit for the New York Times piece that showed Blumenthal had misrepresented his military service.

The McMahon campaign didn't come right out and say they had tipped the Times to a 2008 video of Blumenthal saying he had served in Vietnam (he didn't). But, when a Connecticut blogger claimed the campaign fed the video to the Times, McMahon blasted the blog post out in an email to reporters. The campaign also posted it on Mcmahon's web site under the headline "In Case You Missed It: McMahon Strikes Blumenthal In NYT Article" and tweeted a link.

But her web site has now been scrubbed of the blog post, and the corresponding tweet has been deleted.

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Picture of the site before the scrub at the link

Something really stinks to high heaven here. Thuglican campaign feeds the vid to Times, who claims it was 'their own extensive reporting skills' that uncovered it, Woodward on Morning Jerk praising the Times for their journalistic skills, campaign joins in the coup by taking credit, now it is scrubbed from campaign site. Hmmmm.

[Jennicut]

1. Now she gets it that bragging about feeding the NYT the story does not

look good?

[formercia]

2. She can't be too smart

running as a GOP candidate and all. I hope she gets creamed.