Gossip Blogs Fact Check McCain

By Garance Franke-Ruta Sen. John McCain appears to have opened a can of worms online with his campaign’s latest ad, “Celeb,” launching the always catty gossip blogs into an improbable frenzy of fact-checking. Start with Gawker, which nowadays reblogs ONTD’s (that’s “Oh No You Didn’t” to the uninitiated) report that the parents of McCain ad target Paris Hilton, Rick and Kathy Hilton, are maxed out donors to McCain. Further review by The Trail

confirms the report and shows that Paris Hilton’s grandfather, Hilton Hotels chairman Barron Hilton, is additionally a Republican donor. He supported McCain opponent and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in that year’s GOP primaries. “Did you forget the idle rich are kind of a key Republican constituency or something?” asks Gawker writer Ryan Tate, under the headline “Hiltons Probably Regretting Their McCain Donations.”

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