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In Defense of McCain

  A close aide opens up.  

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Two weeks before Election Day, longtime McCain aide Mark Salter sounds off to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a must-read interview, defending McCain from what he calls Obama’s negative attacks, and tackling Palin’s readiness to be president, among other juicy bits. His biggest target? The media, of course. “I think the media is driven by a need to see this history happen,” Salter said. “And I think they’ve rationalized it, they think they're on the level with McCain, that he’s not the old McCain. But he is the old McCain. He just doesn't know what happened to the old press corps.”

Read it at The Atlantic

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