1.0 link 115780 <![CDATA[Networks Helped Spread McCain's False "Troops" Ad]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/networks-helped-spread-mc_n_115780.html The number of times Senator John McCain's new advertisement attacking Senator Barack Obama for canceling a visit with wounded troops in Germany last week has been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts: well into the hundreds.

The number of times that spot actually, truly ran as a paid commercial: roughly a dozen.

Result for Mr. McCain: a public relations coup that allowed him to show his toughest campaign advertisement of the year -- one widely panned as misleading...

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