The Scozzafava campaign has retracted spokesman Matt Burns’ earlier accusation that WEEKLY STANDARD reporter John McCormack “screamed questions (in-your-face-style)” at NY-23 Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava. The raucous behavior the campaign claimed prompted them to call the police on McCormack Monday didn’t happen, according to the reporter’s audio recording, reported on by the Associated Press:
Today, the campaign leaked an e-mail exchange between Burns and McCormack to the liberal blog Talking Points Memo. Left-wing blogger Markos Moulitsas and the National Review find themselves in a rare moment of complete agreement that the e-mails do nothing to make McCormack look bad (or the Scozzafava campaign look good, for that matter). The Washington Times editorializes: “Dede’s police state”
