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.
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