John McCain campaigned in
Brooklyn today. Earlier this week, Democrats reportedly were plotting against McCain in the Manhattan apartment of billionaire
George Soros.
Ben Smith of
Politico reports:
Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
Brock told Politico:
A void that might be filled, while the Democrats fight it, out by the press is not going to be filled, because the press is in love with John McCain. It's what McCain is allowed to say without being challenged by facts that will show him to have said something different in the past.
Democrats will have to do more than roll out attack ads to pass the
Straight Talk Express. In 2004, the
Media Fund, headed by Harold Ickes (now Hillary Clinton's superdelegate hunter), spent more than $60 million attacking George W. Bush. And we know how well that worked out.
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