Joe Klein on McCain
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rove tactic of "bracketing". Every statement made should be bracketed by counterfacts, if those are not available, use ridicule or sarcasm where there can be no rebuttal. By bracketing the statements of the opposition not only are there ideas contained but nor insidious, there are made dependent upon the relationship to the bracket, which, you control.
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Jeff Gannon receives a "scoop" from unknown person that Mapes was the CBS producer responsible. BEFORE writing his own scoop, Gannon tells Sean Hannity about Mapes. Hannity: HANNITY: "Now, Jeff Gannon, who is a terrific Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for Talon News, actually shot me an e-mail today, and he's about to break a story in an exclusive about these CBS documents." HANNITY: "And apparently they're also, according to Jeff Gannon, the -- Talon News -- this woman, Mary Mapes, this Dallas producer, is under pressure for the [CBS] network, and now there's doubts about their authenticity has taken place." [The Sean Hannity Show, 9/10/04]