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reported below, a group that McCain co-chaired also was perfectly happy to benefit from Soros' generosity. The group, a good-government outfit called the Reform Institute, received $150,000 from Soros in 2003 -- when McCain was its honorary co-chair and McCain's current campaign manager (the same guy who signed yesterday's fund-raising letter) was its president. I've now learned that in 2002, Soros' charitable foundation, the Open Society Institute, gave $300,000 in grants to various groups that were defending the Arizona senator's campaign finance law against legal challenges to it. An OSI spokesperson, Laura Silber, confirms to me that Soros' foundation gave $300,000 to the Brennan Center specifically for use defending McCain-Feingold. Brennan subsequently distributed that sum to various groups fighting on behalf of the McCain-sponsored law. So by my count, Soros has contributed a total of $450,000 either to a group co-chaired by McCain or to defending McCain's pet legislation. There was nothing wrong with Soros' money then, presumably. Asked to comment, McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers emails: "This just in: George Soros' charitable foundation gave money to push campaign finance reform, the spirit of which he's now clearly violating with a $40 million partisan attack ad campaign."
There was nothing wrong with Soros' money then, presumably. That McCain's behavior demonstrates some spectacular hypocrisy? Maybe some tipping point will be reached, and reporters will wake up from their crush on John, and start reporting on how he actually is, rather than how they think he is.
This is why the McCain age meme cuts both ways (think: Reagan), in that it offers him cover for plausible deniability on pooch-screws like this. Can we get this primary over with so we can start training all our energy and Barack's unprecedented warchest on exposing this fraud already?
Asked to comment, McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers emails: "This just in: George Soros' charitable foundation gave money to push campaign finance reform, the spirit of which he's now clearly violating with a $40 million partisan attack ad campaign." Tryin' really really hard to convince themselves that Soros is, in fact, the candidate they're running against, aren't they?
Permalink avatar Asked to comment, McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers emails: "This just in: George Soros' charitable foundation gave money to push campaign finance reform, the spirit of which he's now clearly violating with a $40 million partisan attack ad campaign." Is this the campaign finance reform McCain's violating with all of his FEC shenanigans?
You have to give McCain a lot of credit for taking on Soros like this when he's been a known source of funds and McCain is trailing the democrat party candidates in fundraising.
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