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Trash talking ain't nothing this campaign season

April 27, 2008 By BILL PRESS Bill Press is host of a nationally syndicated radio show and author of "Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)."

After Hillary Clinton's surprisingly comfortable win in Pennsylvania last week, the Democratic primary moves on to North Carolina and Indiana. And so continues the dirtiest and most vitriolic political campaign in history - or so the mainstream media would have you believe.

Last Tuesday night, ABC's Charlie Gibson lamented that the campaign had become "so nasty and negative and dirty." The...

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