News roundup: Keating Five edition

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Submitted by lucidity on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 1:36pm.
  • In response to McCain's last-ditch attack ads, the Obama campaign has released a 13-minute documentary on McCain's involvement in the Keating Five scandal (watch it on YouTube or download the full 150-MB .mov file)

  • Changing his story after 20 years, McCain now says he did nothing wrong in the Keating Five affair and it was all a "political smear job" (AMERICAblog)
  • Back in July, Billmon, posting at Daily Kos, marveled at how McCain has mastered the art of making political vice look like virtue (Daily Kos)
  • The LA Times looks at McCain's shaky record as a naval aviator — three pre-Vietnam crashes in 5 years (LA Times)
  • Joe Klein has a general roundup of the "desperate empty embarrassment the McCain campaign has become" (TIME)