The American Spectator is a far-right publication, not in the nuthouse of the Buchananites, but generally both more religious conservative than National Review and less interventionist than the Weekly Standard.
One of its features is the Washington Prowler -- an insider column that is akin to US News' Washington Whispers and a step down from Byron York's work for The Hill and NR. Making the rounds on the Right side of the Blogosphere is this quote from the Prowler column today:
According to a Kerry campaign source, senior campaign advisers tasked two Washington-based campaign staffers to vet the recently published Unfit for Command.
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The campaign source said that the book was not considered a "serious" problem for the campaign, because, "the media wouldn't have the nerve to come at us with this kind of stuff," says the source. "The senior staff believes the media is committed to seeing us win this thing, and that the convention inoculated us from these kinds of stories. The senior guys really think we don't have a problem here.
Vodkapundit's Will Collier semi-bought it. National Review Online's Jim Geraghty did not, and his own Kerry source debunks the quote (scroll down to 8-10 at 3:56 pm):
I ran this past my guy at the Kerry campaign, who's been honest and reliable with me in the past, and he says this didn't happen. His words: "This smooth talking 'source' is clearly a fiction. Seems more like a conservative's paranoid conspiratorial central casting image of what Democrats must talk like about our Freudian [he means Faustian -- TKM] bargain with the media.
I'm with Geraghty, but the media's relationship with Kerry is so hand-in-glove that the quote is easily believable.
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