CNN Does its Job, McCain Punishes It

CNN Does its Job, McCain Punishes It

Juan Cole 09/03/2008

Campbell Brown of CNN asks McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds some hard questions about Sarah Palin’s national security experience and refuses to let him get away with illogical and self-contradictory answers.

John McCain was furious (and no one can be furious the way he can) and cancelled his planned interview on CNN in a fit of pique.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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