[DoughtyOne]

McCain and the New York Times deserve each other.

We should be thinking ahead for 2012
These candidates all have Rs
at the end of their names
Governor	Steve Beshear
Congressman	Earl Blumenauer
Congressman	Rick Boucher
Senator	Barbara Boxer
Senator	Thomas R. Carper
Congresswoman	Kathy Castor
Congressman	Ben Chandler
Congresswoman	Emanuel Cleaver
Congressman	Jim Cooper
Congressman	Bud Cramer
Congressman	Henry Cuellar
Governor	Chet Culver
Congressman	Sam Farr
Congressman	Bob Filner
Congressman	Steny Hoyer
Congresswoman	Marcy Kaptur
Senator	Amy Klobuchar
Congressman	Brad Miller
Congressman	George Miller
Governor	Ruth Ann Minner
Congressman	Jerrold Nadler
Congressman	James Oberstar
Congressman	John Olver
Congressman	Ed Pastor
Congressman	Ed Perlmutter
Senator	Mark L. Pryor
Governor	Bill Ritter
Senator	John D. Rockefeller
Congressman	Dutch Ruppersberger
Senator	Ken Salazar
Congressman	John Salazar
Senator	Charles E. Schumer
Governor	Brian Schweitzer
Congresswoman	Carol Shea-Porter
Congressman	Heath Shuler
Congresswoman	Louise Slaughter
Congressman	Vic Snyder
Governor	Eliot Spitzer
Congressman	John Tanner
Congresswoman	Ellen Tauscher
Congressman	Gene Taylor
Senator	Jon Tester
Congressman	Anthony Weiner
Congressman	Robert Wexler

/s

[TigersEye]

I smell a setup.

[DGHoodini]

...“filled with awkward journalistic moves”...

Is that what they are calling bald faced MSM lies these days?

[W04Man]

THE REAL REASON THE NYSLIMES BROKE THE STORY WAS TO GET MICHELLE “FINALLY PROUD” OBAMA OFF THE FRONT PAGE. it worked!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The New Republic lambasted The New York Times for giving the green light, claiming the piece was “filled with awkward journalistic moves” and that it stepped around the suggested trysts with lobbyist Vicki Iseman by focusing on the debate in the McCain campaign itself about the relationship.

As most of FR knows, I'm absolutely no McCain fan. But this was a well-timed Clinton hit-piece, pure and simple. It was designed to do two things: 1) deflect attention from Hillary's floundering, and 2) smear McCain just after he ties down the GOP nomination.

Despite my strong feelings against McCain, this is despicable, and have no doubt that either McCauliffe or Ickes were the ones who called up the Slimes and told them to run with the story.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

“All I can conclude is that this is the largest liberal newspaper in America trying to unfairly attack the integrity of the new conservative Republican nominee for president,” said McCain adviser Charlie Black. “There is no other good explanation for it.”

Anybody else catch this piece of return BS?