Slime Time Live
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In your face: Fueled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and
uglier. Why the mud's flying so thick and fast.
By Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Sept. 20 issue - The rap on Mary Beth Cahill, even inside the
presidential campaign she administers, is that she is too reserved—a
schoolmarmish sort who rules with icy glances, who frets overmuch
about "going negative" and who, therefore, is the wrong person to
guide the fortunes of Sen. John Kerry during this hypernasty political
season. Maybe so, but hers was among the first congratulatory calls
Ben Barnes received in Austin late last Wednesday night. As the
speaker of the Texas House in 1968, Barnes now says, he had helped the
well connected—including George W. Bush—find safe haven from Vietnam
by applying pressure to the state Air National Guard. These days a
high-octane lobbyist with business ties to both parties, Barnes had
been reluctant to discuss the Guard—until his Democratic allies (and
his own anger at charges aimed at Kerry by Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth) persuaded him to tell his story on "60 Minutes II" last week.
"You did a great job," Cahill told him after it had aired. "You did a
brave thing." Sen. Ted Kennedy (for whom Cahill once worked) called
with the same message.
Howard Fineman
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Michael Isikoff
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