The politics of personal destruction.

After Hillary Clinton used a remark by an Obama donor to "defend herself," and the media went all gaga over a tiff so early between the Democrats, I think maybe we should take a step back and look how it's really done as the Republicans target McCain.

An unattributable group spreads a misrepresentative message which is then promoted by a talking head (who I'm sure had no prior knowledge.) We'll call it the "Drudge model."