RNC Lawyers Warn Nets Against Airing Anti-McCain Ad
The Republican National Committee has developed a new method for rebutting attack ads against John McCain: Send threatening letters to any cable networks that might run them.
RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross has notified NBC, CNN and MSNBC that he believes the new Democratic ad attacking John McCain's "maybe a hundred" years in Iraq line is illegal on two counts: 1) It is misleading, in that Cairncross says it distorts McCain's words, and 2) It constitutes collaboration between the Clinton and Obama camps and the DNC in fashioning a message against McCain.
During a conference call today with reporters, DNC chairman Howard Dean denied any collaboration with the Obama or Clinton camps in making the ad, and had this to say when asked whether he actually expected any real legal action on the RNC's part, beyond threatening letters: "Let them do it."
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