Video: McConnell Misleads Public About His Office's Role In Pushing Smear Of Graeme Frost
October 16, 2007 -- 6:32 PM EST // //
Yet another wrinkle in the McConnell-SCHIP smear.
A couple hours ago Atrios linked to this report by local Kentucky station WHAS11 news. In it the station accused GOP Senator Mitch McConnell of misleading the network's reporter when McConnell told him on camera a few days ago that his office played no role whatsoever in pushing the smear of SCHIP posterkid Graeme Frost and his family.
As you all know, the news broke today that McConnell's communications director admitted in an interview with Kentucky's Courier-Journal that he'd initially alerted reporters to the smear campaign being waged by the winger bloggers against the Frosts. For all the background on this, go here.
Now a Kentucky blogger has just posted some video of WHAS11's report alleging that McConnell had misled them. In it you can watch WHAS11's footage of an interview they did with McConnell on Friday, in which he adamantly denied any involvement from his office:
In it, the reporter directly asks McConnell whether his office was involved in any way:
MCCONNELL: Is there an indication that your office was trying to push reporters to go dig into this background?As we now know, however, this is false.REPORTER: Then what was the deal with the email?
MCCONNELL: What?
REPORTER: What was the deal with the email from your staffer?
MCCONNELL: There was no involvement whatsoever.
REPORTER: From your staff?
MCCONNELL: None.
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