dday in If A Nose Grows In The Forest... goes after the veracity of McCain's "cross in the sand story". Apparently McCain started telling it in 1999 and it's changed a few times. Apparently Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was telling a similar story in the 90s. Hmmm.
Maybe it happened to McCain, maybe not. "That didn't matter in 2000. Al Gore said he invented the Internet and that he found Love Canal and that he and Tipper were the inspiration for Love Story. That's what happened and there was no shaking anyone in the media off of that, and they were going to use those and other nuggets to build a story about Gore's serial exaggerations, and make that character issue far more important than any policy or point of difference between him and George W. Bush."
"I'm focusing on this gross double-standard in the comparison between Gore and McCain because I think it's the most salient example and it shows to what extent their thumbs are on the scale. And when there was a perception on the other side of the aisle that the media was too liberal, they mounted an effort to relentlessly criticize them to make sure their perspective was represented"
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