There is now a dispute as to whether a McCain campaign operative in Pennsylvania was responsible for contacting the media - before the police did - about the race-baiting mugging hoax perpetrated by the McCain campaign volunteer in Pittsburgh. I cannot know myself, but TPM's rebuttals are here and here. I can see why Brian Rogers would deny it. If true, it proves the McCain campaign has a race-baiter hysteric on its state staff.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/the-mccain-camp-denies/209640/
