As we reported last night Senator Mitch McConnell lied to WHAS11’s Mark Hebert.
Could this story get any bigger? Talking Points Memo, Think Progress, Crooks & Liars, FireDogLake, CourtTV have all covered it. Now the Courier-Journal’s James Carroll gives it some legs.
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell knew last week — at a time when he was denying it — that his staff had sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the background of a 12-year-old boy used by Democrats to support expansion of a health-care program.
In an interview Friday with WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, the Kentucky Republican said his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters to look into the financial situation of the boy’s family.
But McConnell’s communications director, Don Stewart, said in an interview Monday with The Courier-Journal that he had told McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails sometime around Thursday, the day before the interview with Hebert.
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1 Let’s Get Political « The ‘Ville Voice // Oct 18, 2007 at 9:19 am
[…] Lie. Film at 11. The firestorm over our senior Senator being caught in a lie is big news. McConnell, caught on camera, lying about a propaganda campaign initiated in his […]
2 Lower than Low: McConnell Staff's Attack on 12-Year-Old Health Care Recipient // Oct 20, 2007 at 10:46 pm
[…] involvement in the smear campaign. Other Kentucky blogs, like Bluegrassroots, Bluegrass Report and Page One Kentucky, are keeping up the pressure on […]
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