CSM’s ‘Decoder’ Twists MSNBC Criticism of Cain Strategy Into ‘Leaving the Campaign Trail’

This afternoon , Jack Coleman at NewsBusters noted how MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took a shot at GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for supposedly “taking a month off the campaign trail — taking a month off — to go on a book tour.” The original source for this “claim” is a very poorly written and quite deceptively headlined October 3 item at the Christian Science Monitor by David Grant. The trouble is, Grant badly distorted an item at MSNBC's First Read blog which, while quite critical of Cain, said nothing about “suspending” or “taking a month off” from the campaign (internal links are in original; paragraph breaks added by me): Raising (and lowering) Cain : After his straw-poll win in Florida, Cain is getting a second look from conservative opinion-makers. The

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