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Harvard Current Defends RNC Story...
Regarding your piece, "Current, RNC Spar Over 'Liar' Article," (News, Oct. 20) I just wanted to reiterate that Dan Levine took all necessary measures to provide an accurate account of the incident of the Sheridan School's field trip to the Republican National Committee (RNC). Remember that he qualified his article by mentioning that Rebecca King could not be reached for comment...
There is even talk of reviving the controversial spot Bush himself killed three weeks ago. This is the ad made by RNC image guru Alex Castellanos, which was actually shipped out to 350 TV stations before Bush finally yanked it. One argument was that it was just too nasty; the other was that it was unfair, since it featured a clip of Gore defending Clinton's truthfulness as if it referred to the Lewinsky scandal. The problem was that the interview was from 1994, not 1998, long before anyone had ever heard of the White House intern...
...RNC, disavowing any foreknowledge of the ad's little surprise, will be given the benefit of the doubt - at least for the moment. And perhaps that's not as ridiculous as it sounds: It's possible to imagine the RNC advertising staff watching Castellanos's ad with a distracted eye, and missing the reference altogether. (Of course, that line of reasoning makes it difficult to explain how the split-second flash was visible to a Seattle television viewer; the registered Democrat called the Gore campaign to register surprise over the ad's content...
...course, it's very tempting to stick with a winner. But as they mull their next step, the RNC may want to consider a couple of things: First, the candidates each vowed to stick to the high road this year - and while both parties have strayed, on several occasions, from the letter of that promise, the spirit remains, battered but intact. More of this kind of stuff and voters aren't likely to think too kindly of the party (and by extension, the candidate) they perceive as responsible for pushing the campaign irrevocably off that road. Second, with a candidate...