Kerry Healey's myth of victimhood

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kerry Healey deflected criticism that she has run a negative campaign, saying she never intended so much attention to be paid to ads featuring a woman being stalked and highlighting her Democratic opponent's advocacy on behalf of a convicted rapist.

Healey told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday that it was the media that played up her opponent's support for a convicted rapist — and not her campaign's ads.

"The media has spent too much time focusing on this one issue and therefore we as a campaign have ended up spending more time talking about this one issue than about many of the many other substantive issues," Healey said.