Washington, D.C.-based journalist Margriet Oostveen writes a column called "Message from Washington" for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

Margriet Oostveen's Salon stories

Wednesday, Sep 24, 2008 03:47 PDT

I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign

I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even pretended to have a son in Iraq.

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