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RANGEL UPDATE: Attack the messenger when you can?t attack the message: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY?

By Glenn Reynolds

RANGEL UPDATE: Attack the messenger when you can’t attack the message:

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) was asked about his failure to disclose about $700,000 in assets this weekend in Harlem by my pal Azi Paybarah of PolitickerNY — and responded by saying he was a victim of a New York Post smear campaign. . . . “I think it’s totally unfair for the New York Post to send investigative reporters to my family’s homes and to do that type of thing,” he said during a rally in Harlem over the weekend. “I guess it’s all selling papers.”

In other words, insufficient deference to Baron Charles.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).