Reply #16: Last Night SPAETH Claimed "Zero" Involvement in the McCAIN Smear

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On the SCAROROUGH circus, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x664471

"Not true. I didn't run (the McCAIN Smear)."

"None (connection). Zero. What's lower than zero? The KERRY campaign twists things."

Here's a link to where she said that being part of the McCAIN smear was one of the 5 top things she regrets most in her life----which, however, wasn't enough of a regret to keep her from partaking of the swiftbot smear of JK.

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Merrie_Spa ...

Merrie Spaeth

Merrie Spaeth is "the public relations consultant representing" Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). "According to CBS television news, election commission records gave the maximum possible £2,000 donation" to the Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. re-election campaign in June 2003. <1>

Her role with the SBVT attack on Kerry prompted the Kerry campaign allegations that she played a role in attempting to discredit John McCain in the Republican presidential primary in 2000. Spaeth told National Review that she was approached to provide PR support after the two Texas millionaires Sam and Charles Wyly, created the front group Republicans for Clean Air to attack McCains environmental policies.

Spaeth said that she agreed to field press inquiries for the group. It "turned out to be the biggest mistake, at least one of the top five," of her life, she said. "I regret being involved in any way," she said. <2>

Spaeth, founder of Spaeth Communications, Inc., "served as a White House Fellow and was assigned to FBI Director William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director’s staff. From the FBI, she served two years at the Federal Trade Commission as director of public affairs, and in 1983, President Ronald Reagan named her director of media relations at the White House. Merrie introduced satellite communications to the White House, and the electronic White House News Service. One newspaper headline said she 'took the White House into the Space Age.' <3>

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