"McMahon campaign says they ‘fed’ Blumenthal story to New York Times"

[Clio the Leo]

McMahon campaign says they ‘fed’ Blumenthal story to New York Times
By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller | Published: 05/18/10 at 6:57 AM

Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon is wasting no time trying to capitalize on the devastating New York Times piece that broke Monday night detailing Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s misleading statements about his service in the military.

The McMahon campaign is saying they gave the story to the New York Times, according to a blog post written by a former Republican state lawmaker that the campaign has posted on their website.

The post, written by Kevin Rennie, who writes for the Hartford Courant and RealClearPolitics in addition to on his blog, says the Times story was “fed to the paper by the Linda McMahon Senate campaign.”

“The Blumenthal Bombshell comes at the end of more than 2 months of deep, persistent research by Republican Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign. It gave the explosive Norwalk video recording to The Times. This is what comes of $16 million, a crack opposition research operation and an opponent who … gave them the sword,” Rennie wrote late Monday.

Rennie confirmed in an e-mail to the Daily Caller Tuesday that he had written the post and that the McMahon campaign had told him they gave the story to the Times.

The practice of campaigns feeding information to reporters is common. It is less common for a campaign to take credit for the story after the story has been published.


http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/18/mcmahon-campaign-says-they-fed-blumenthal-story-to-new-york-times/

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[MadBadger]

1. I think that was a big mistake to admit to feeding the Times the story.

[Clio the Leo]

8. "The GOP better hope Simmons wins the primary..."

is what Nate Silver just said. (And he knows a thing or two about politics.)

http://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/14231326310

[mkultra]

2. wow, i didnt realize it was those McMahons

I guess ill take a liar over them. :)

[Jennicut]

5. Yeah, kind of why I have been posting that I will take Blumental trying to weather the storm

over throwing a no name candidate and get McMahon as a Senator. Oh, those McMahons....I watched WWE for years and went to matches here in Connecticut. But as people they are pretty sleazy themselves. And love their money.

[KingFlorez]

3. That makes her look really good

She really is stupid if she thought admitting she sent the story in made her look anything else other than desperate and pathetic.

[still_one]

4. That unfortunately does not detract from the validity of the story. Blumenthal should

not have been so stupid

Hopefully, his damage control will work

[MadBadger]

7. But it does bring Mcmahon down...makes her look like more of a conniving politician

[still_one]

9. Is that the way the people in Connecticut will view it? /nt

[bigwillq]

10. We can only hope

I will still vote for Blumenthal. He's the only real chance we have to hold onto that seat. This race was his to lose in both the primary and GE. It will be interesting to see the fallout from this revelation, even though Blumenthal refutes the claim.

[still_one]

13. That is what I hear /nt

[Kdillard]

6. How desperate and pathetic do you have to be to pull a stunt like that. The

New York Times is even worse for the way they used a two year old one time misstatement to try to bring down a candidate's opposition.

[greencharlie]

11. how desparate do you have to be to repeatedly lie about your military service? nt

[Kdillard]

14. Really as far as I have read it certainly was not repeated especially since the Times hit

Piece could only find one two year old quote. Please tell me how this was repeated and especially since he has not given any wrong impression on the campaign trail. I also can't believe anyone is sticking up for what is obviously a ploy to bring down a candidate when they have nothing else going to show why they should be elected. Again smacks of desperation.

[greencharlie]

15. another example

he was talking about how vets were treated on return fron Nam... he's been walking a fine line of bs-talking for years.

'When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn't wear our uniforms.'

[formercia]

12. It didn't seem to hurt Junior much.

A politician who tells a little white lie is a Saint compared to most of them.

[fujiyama]

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