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Now Playing at Reason.tv: Matt Welch on John McCain's Silence on Campaign-Finance Reform

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2008 12:02 AM

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reason Editor in Chief and McCain: Myth of a Maverick author Matt Welch explains why the presidential candidate dare not crow about his biggest legislative accomplishment, campaign-finance reform.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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  1. Nathan   18 years ago

    The YouTube video doesn't work.

  2. JMR   18 years ago

    I wonder why they do the "we're sorry, this video is no longer available" thing?

  3. Butler T. Reynolds   18 years ago

    I've been seeing this alot with YouTube videos lately. It's really starting to chap my butt.

    I don't know, is it time to start using Microsoft's Soapbox?

  4. Angus S-F   18 years ago

    Look here" http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/389.html

  5. Angus S-F   18 years ago

    My bad, that was from April, just turned up on a quick search of reason.tv.

  6. Warren   18 years ago

    OMG what does Matt Welch know about John McCain's Silence on Campaign-Finance Reform that "they" don't want us to know?

  7. zach   18 years ago

    Dammit, I want to watch this.

  8. Dan Hayes   18 years ago

    The video is now live. Thanks.

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