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McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of “Carved B” Story Before Facts Were Known

John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s cheek stood for “Barack,” according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.

John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”

Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the “B” stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.

The KDKA reporter had called McCain’s campaign office for details after seeing the story — sans details — teased on Drudge.

The McCain spokesperson’s claims — which came in the midst of extraordinary and heated conversations late yesterday between the McCain campaign, local TV stations, and the Obama camp, as the early version of the story rocketed around the political world — is significant because it reveals a McCain official pushing a version of the story that was far more explosive than the available or confirmed facts permitted at the time.

The claims to KDKA from the McCain campaign were included in an early story that ran late yesterday on KDKA’s Web site. The paragraphs containing these assertions were quickly removed from the story after the Obama campaign privately complained that KDKA was letting the McCain campaign spin a racially-charged version of the story before the facts had been established, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

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Race-baiting by John McCain

Yesterday, Fox News Executive Vice-President John Moody, who is a Pittsburgh native, wrote on his blog that the incident, if proven false, would irreversibly damage the McCain campaign.

“This incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election,” he wrote. “If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.

More from Andrew Sullivan, Wired, Telegraph and Associated Content.

Race has been a sensitive issue in the contest and a number of prominent Republicans, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, have criticised the increasingly divisive tone of the McCain-Palin campaign. Some supporters have been freely expressing their distaste for a black president to reporters attending McCain rallies, while cries of “terrorist!” and “kill him” have been heard from the crowd at televised events.

Unprecendented. Never befor has a vice-presidential candidate questioned the head of the ticket in the history of US presidential politics. Sarah Palin questioned Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s decision to abandon efforts to win Michigan, a campaign move she claimed that she learned about Friday morning when she read it in the newspapers.

One often wonders who or what is encouraging the winking Alaska governor’s fiesty tone as she started to pimp the campaign trail again.

Take it from me, she is running for president. McCain is about to be relegated to the VP spot.

You’d wish that was a joke.

Milfs are the maverick’s meal ticket

Seems positive that Republican presidential candidate John McCain owns VoteForTheMilf.com, VoteForTheMilf.net and VoteForTheMilf.org.

(Update: Now the McCain campaign is redirecting traffic to Google. However if you look at the thumbnail history it still shows the McCain site. LOL. The McCain, Palin people are really don’t seem to get it).

They were re-directing traffic to the John McCain campaign site. Here have a look.

(For the uninitiated, vote for the milf translates to vote for the mother I’d like to fuck). Really.

Note how she says “from americans who are really desiring,” and “shake things up,” and “let’s do this together, etc.” Embedded NLP innuendoes? Before you scoff at this idea watch this video.

And for good measure, this one.

Talk about sexism, now McCain”s motto “Country First” now sports a rather dubious halo.

People in the porn industry, like Republican presidential candidates know that MILF is a very highly searched term. On the Wordtracker Long term top 1000 report, Milf is the 14th most searched term.

Related terms include:

• milfs
• milf hunter
• milf sex
• hot milf
• milfs like it big.
  

More info from GovGap: (The site that broke the story)

- URL Registered within ~36 hours of McCain’s Decision to select Palin as running mate
- Redirect sends users specifically to a palin.htm file, but only on the FIRST redirect
- Whois Privacy Information Matches JohnMcCain.com Whois Privacy
- URL Held by same registrar
- Note that the .net and .org versions also redirect to the McCain Campaign Website.
Network Tools.com Trace Route:
- 64.203.107.149 (VoteForTheMILF.com)
- 64.203.107.149 (JohnMcCain.com)

The word seems to be getting around. Will someone please ask McCain how much he wants for the domains or whether he has other plans for them?

McCain and Palin may never make it to Whitehouse.gov, but surely they can restore Whitehouse.com to it’s former glory.