Monday, September 18, 2006

NY Times' Nagourney uncritically reported Mehlman's baseless comparison ........

...... between Democratic strategy to nationalize midterms and Republicans' failed '98 plan to do so

In a September 17 article about Democratic efforts to make President Bush "the marquee name in this fall's Congressional elections," New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney uncritically reported Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's claim that the Democrats' effort to link GOP candidates in congressional and Senate races to Bush is unlikely to succeed because "[t]he last time this kind of morph ad was tried was in '98 when we tried to nationalize the races against [then-President Bill] Clinton and it didn't work." Read more

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