Not everyone is sold on the Washington Post’s stories (original and follow-up) about Rick Perry, his hunting camp, and its offensive name on a stone.

From today’s New Hampshire Journal:

UGLY – The Republican presidential primary contest has taken an ugly turn – the kind of ugly turn virtually every Republican primary ends up taking, to the party’s great discredit.  It began on Sunday with a Washington Post story about Rick Perry’s hunting camp that once held a horribly racist name…BEFORE the Perry family leased it.

THEN Perry rival Herman Cain weighed in pouring gas all over the fire.

NHJ’s INITIAL TAKE – Perry is getting railroaded here.  His campaign’s version of the story leaves him the victim of journalistic malpractice.  Many of the facts are in dispute and considering the toxicity of the charge against Perry the Post ought not to have been so casual about its implication that Perry is a racist.  If the story changes, if more information causes us to reconsider the facts, we may change our minds.  But these kinds of cynical, disgusting attacks are among the main reasons the “mainstream media” has become one of the most distrusted institutions in America.

Let the wild rumpus begin.