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					Originally Posted by PaulS  Jim, your leaving out the beginning of that quote from the NYT changes the intent of the sentence. | 
	
 In what way?  The NYT admits there are serious allegations, then states that some of the hubub is nothing more than political smear.  
When the NYT ran a front-page story claiming that John McCain's adopted daughter was actually his biological daughter with a mistress, and there was no truth to that...did the NYT admit that it was all political smear?  Or is 'smear' only involved when conservatives point out wrongdoing of liberals?