Posted on 02/20/2008 7:54:41 PM PST by kellynla
The liberal New York Times is wasting no time in smearing John McCain, the Republican Party nominee for President.
Late Wednesday, the Times published to its website a story set to hit print editions Thursday, linking McCain to a female lobbyist. The paper suggested the Arizona Senator has been engaged in an illicit relationship.
"A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet," the Times reported. "Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity."
Noted Democratic attorney Robert Bennett appeared on Fox News Wednesday night and called the Times report nothing more than a "real hit job."
Bennett, brother of conservative pundit Bill Bennett, had served as private counsel to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s during the Paula Jones scandal.
The Times said that McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, denied the Times innuendo that they had engaged in a romantic relationship or that McCain had done favors for Iseman. The Times alleged that McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of Iseman.
Though McCain has had a reputation as an independent and maverick U.S. Senator who has championed ethic and campaign finance reform, the Times story painted a different picture.
Though last year McCain had voted to end the practice of lawmakers using private jets paid for by those lobbying Congress, the Times said McCain had used the private planes of billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael R. Bloomberg, as well as one of Iseman’s clients.
The paper also dredged up McCain's role in the infamous S&L scandal and his collaboration with banker Charles Keating. McCain was named a member of the so-called "Keating Five."
A Senate Ethic Committee probe found that McCain was only guilty of “poor judgment” in the affair. Bennett noted that he served as the Democratic counsel to the committee investigating the five U.S. Senators. Bennett said he concluded that McCain was an "an honest man."
He added that Times report was "shameless" and slammed the paper for publishing the story, which he described as "entirely unsourced."
After watching this guy on Fox the NYT is going to end up with egg on their face as will MSNBC.
You know, this could actually backfire on the Times and DNC.
If their primary argument against McCain was that he’s too old, then is it really a good idea to show that he’s got what it takes to bed a nice looking blonde, thirty years his junior?
Simply pathetic.
This just confirms why the NYT endorsed McCain for the Republican nomination.
There are many many worms under McCain’s rock.
McCain is like Snow White compared to Hillary....
Obama has no dirt simply because he’s never done anything.
I’m sure the NYT balanced out this article with a correspondingly insinuating piece about Huma Abedin. Right?
Pinch is jealous.
Here we go! I knew as soon as the MSM placed McCain as *their* nominee, the dirt would start flyin’—and boy, is it gonna be a mud bath for the next 8 months or so!! Sheesh.
Isn’t Bennet McCains attorney?
Regards
You can bet that Mitt Romney’s put a pot of coffee on....he’s relevent all of a sudden.
The NYT deserves to be drawn and quartered.
Yep, Bennett pretty much shredded this into little tiny pieces.
I wonder if it really was a coincidence that he appeared on Hannity and Colmes to promote his book on the day this story was published? Hmmmmmm...
I’m surprised the NY Times didn’t wait until October 2008 to slime the Republican nominee.
No Pinchy is jealous of Larry Sinclair.
I knew he was innocent.
“You can bet that Mitt Romney’s put a pot of coffee on....he’s relevent all of a sudden.”
Yeah, no.
That’s a tall order, but McCain’s Reform Institute is just one more reason why he will never see my vote for dogcatcher.
McCain is now learning the hard way that the Leftist media was just using him all along.
I don’t know if he drinks coffee, maybe tea, but I’m gonna say Mitt’s out of it until next time.
Here is comes...just the beginning.
Yes but while everyone is talking about this, no one is talking about how Michelle has not been really proud of America for her entire adult life.
Obama has no dirt simply because he’s never done anything.
How about doing Cocaine with Larry Sinclair. We have a video of Larry Sinclair admitting it.
Yet the TV folks say nothing about Larry Sinclair and he taking a lie detector test.
The fact that this is coming out now shows that they probably have something even worse on him for the weeks close to the election.
mcCain has decades of dirt the MSM can sift through. Good job RNC (and moderates)!
What a POS newspaper. they had this story for months, but embargoed it until McCain bested Romney.
You could fill the whole NYTimes up with stuff on the superdelegates bribes or real scandals of Obama/Clinton but ... nope.
Just kidding.
Lib David Gergen thinks his buddies at the NY Times might have more facts. Drip Drip...
I think they are calling her a whore for being a lobbyist using sex to bribe McCain.
Those girls in porn films don’t really LIKE having sex with fat old men either.
Isn’t this a bit too soon?
This is just the NYT once again expressing surprise at the idea that heterosexual sex might exist.
This filthy bit of business would push me to the right of Ronald Reagan.
Leni
If there was any substance to the charge, Larry Flynt would have already published it.
Don’t Mormons pass on coffee?
Regards
This is only the beginning, folks.
I found this in the comments section of the Politco’s version of the lobbyist story:
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“This is nothing compared to the dirt to be tilled kiddo’s........What worries a small group of GOP senators and congressmen is a deep and dark skeletal secret in McCain’s glorified past to which they are privy, and which the Clintons will use to blackmail him. They have been having discussions with a Russian whom we’ll call “T” for translator. T’s father was the Soviet military intelligence officer who ran the “Hanoi Hilton” prison holding John McCain. The GRU or main intelligence directorate of the Soviets ? operated the entire North Vietnamese prison system. After each interrogation session, the Vietnamese interrogator would write a report of the session ? in Vietnamese. These reports had to be translated into Russian. T had become fluent in Vietnamese, and ended up translating many of the reports and interrogators’ notes. In July, 1968, McCains father, Adm. J. S. McCain, was made commander of all U.S. military forces in Vietnam. Upon learning this, the Vietnamese offered ? according to McCain ? to release him. McCain claims he refused, because he demanded all American POWs captured before him be released as well. He thus remained a prisoner when he could have gone home, and was subjected to constant brutal beatings and torture for years: that is the source of the “war-hero” saga making McCain a greater war-hero than any other American POW. Yet the offer of release would had to have been approved by the GRU overseers of the North Vietnamese ? and T does not recall any such offer being made. T translated all the Vietnamese interrogators’ notes and reports regarding John McCain. According to T, they reveal that McCain had made an “accommodation” with his captors, and in exchange, T’s father saw that he was provided with an apartment in Hanoi and the services of two prostitutes. Upon returning to his prison cell, he would say he had been held in solitary confinement. That may be why so many of his fellow prisoners said later they saw so little of him at Hoa Loa. The notes and reports written in Vietnamese were sent to Moscow, for T’s translation into Russian, then placed into GRU archives. That’s where they stayed until 1991. Late that year, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the CIA and the GRU made a deal for a document swap. In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain’s interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors. And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it? Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968?Bill Clinton. The CIA is a left-wing, liberal outfit, and its main job for some time now is not attacking America’s enemies but the Conservatives. The story is best told by Ken Timmerman in his new book -Shadow Warriors. When the time is right, the Clintons will see to the leaking of the GRU archives on McCain to the media. Bet on it,
Posted By: whiskey eight four | February 20, 2008 at 09:49 PM”
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Probably just moonbat speculation but I’m willing to bet that similarly bizarre charges are in the offing.
US politics handed me a lemon, and now I have to make lemonade.
US politics handed me a lemon, and now I have to make lemonade.
No Pinchy is jealous of Larry Sinclair.
Unless they are RINOs.. of course..
If the Times really knew the republican anger out there they would tone down and do the backstroke.. Many/most Republicans are armed..
I have no point to make, other than years ago I decided I would not vote for a liberal, regardless of party.
Does this mean that we can expect to see McCain doing Viagra ads after the election?
John Kerry LIED TO CONGRESS about war crimes witnessed and that he took part in.
John Kery MET WITH THE ENEMEY TO “negotiate” a “peace settlement” ON FOREIGN SOIL.
John Kerry BETRAYED AMERICA IN THE VIETNAM WAR AND IT WAS NOT A WORTHY CAMPAIGN ISSUE.
Screw the yellow/red journalists at the Politico.
Not a chance.
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