The Hotline reports that the DNC continues to slam John McCain for his fundraiser Clayton Williams’ 1990 rape joke:
On Monday, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash pushed the story. Unlike CNN, ABC’s Jake Tapper pointed out the Obama campaign’s hypocrisy in faulting McCain for Williams’s 18-year-old joke: “So…does that mean the Obama campaign won’t have anything to do with former comedy writer Al Franken, the Democratic Senate nominee in Minnesota, who is currently under fire for a rape joke he made in 1995?” Good question–too bad Tapper didn’t pose it to Obama during his interview Monday evening. Obviously Tapper didn’t have time to ask every question he wanted, but it would be good if he or someone else in the mainstream media got a response from the Obama campaign on this. I called and emailed the campaign on Monday to ask if Obama would refuse to campaign with Franken and call on Democrats to return Franken’s contributions. They still have not responded.
