OOO! Ooo! The NY Times has more dirt on McCain!!!

[backscatter712]

Files and McCain Letter Show Effort to Keep Loophole

WASHINGTON — In late 1998, Senator John McCain sent an unusually blunt letter to the head of the Federal Communications Commission, warning that he would try to overhaul the agency if it closed a broadcast ownership loophole.

The letter, and two later ones signed by Mr. McCain, then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, urged the commission to abandon plans to close a loophole vitally important to Glencairn Ltd., a client of Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist. The provision enabled one of the nation’s largest broadcasting companies, Sinclair, to use a marketing agreement with Glencairn, a far smaller broadcaster, to get around a restriction barring single ownership of two television stations in the same city.

At a news conference on Thursday, Mr. McCain denounced an article in The New York Times that described concerns by top advisers a decade ago about his ties to Ms. Iseman, a partner at the firm Alcalde & Fay. He said he never had any discussions with his advisers about Ms. Iseman and never did any favors for any lobbyist.

One of the McCain campaign’s statements about his dealings with Ms. Iseman was challenged by news accounts on Friday. In discussing letters he wrote regulators about a deal involving another of Ms. Iseman’s clients, Lowell W. Paxson, the campaign had said the senator had never spoken to her or anyone from the company. But Mr. McCain acknowledged in a 2002 deposition that he had sent the letters after meeting with Mr. Paxson.

:popcorn:

Just after McCain made his denials at his press conference, and the right wing propaganda machine started its whitewashing, this comes out...

I'm definitely seeing some nookie pro quo here (actually, no, I don't want to see that, excuse me while I lobotomize myself with an icepick now that I've imagined it...)

Well, as the great, wise LBJ once said, "I just want to hear him deny it."

[bluestateguy]

1. Maybe this time they will use sources that are man enough to go on the record

nt

[OHdem10]

2. This was discussed by J. King, CNN---does not seem to be

any there there.

[senseandsensibility]

5. How so?

Did John King have facts to dispute the NYT claims?

[TwilightGardener]

10. He was just caught lying. He gave testimony, under oath, and then

contradicted it this week. His buddy Paxson also contradicted him. He is a big, fat, corrupt liar. Of course there's "there" there, it's just a matter of: will the media stop treating him like St. John the Maverick and start treating him like just another lying corrupt sack of shit politician, which he is?

[VolcanoJen]

14. John McCain is John King's hero.

I wouldn't take anything John King has to "report" about Senator McCain seriously. Remember this great takedown by Glenn Greenwald, just last month?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/12/king/index.html

And John King's snarky, self-satisfied, pithy response to Glenn?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/16/king/index.html

[Shine]

3. Yup, I read on another site the NY Times was setting a trap for him

by in effect forcing him to deny the allegations.

I think it's important for another news source or respected paper to take up this story, though. If it continues to be on the Times' shoulder, it would appear too biased.

[Coexist]

9. sounds interesting

[samplegirl]

4. Let the dirt

spew! I wish one of Miss Vicki's friends would step up and spill the beans. That would confirm McCains evilness.

[anniebelle]

6. EEEEEWWW - maybe there's a blue dress.

[belpejic]

16. Or maybe a secret sex tape!

OMG, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...

[nookiemonster]

7. He's such a dumbass.

Damn, John. At one time you garnered at least a little respect. But no, you had to make a deal with the fascists. That sir, will be your downfall.

This latest story is just icing on the cake. You shat the bed, Johnny.


Good riddance.

[petersjo02]

15. Your second sentence should read...

"That, MY FRIEND, will be your downfall." Him and his "friends" make me gag.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. kick. n/t

[lame54]

11. Great, wise LBJ?

:puke:

[backscatter712]

17. I should have used the sarcasm tag...

LBJ isn't one of my favorite politicians either...

[Hutzpa]

12. The writing was on the wall

it was only a matter of time, I knew they had something all along, hell...even McCain

knew it was coming.

[jody]

13. McCain will be the Repub candidate so his advisers are airing his dirty linen before the GE campaign

[pleah]

18. They knew that the NYT had more dirt.

That is why they were trashing the NYT so heavily, before the next tidbit came out.. But, isn't this a refresher course on this information that came out about 8 yrs. ago??

[JorgeTheGood]

19. given some of the polls ...

especially that MA poll that has BO beating JM by only 2 points ... that poll is BAD news. If BO can't take MA handilly, he will lose every state in the country, other than IL.

it looks like a landslide for McCain if BO is the nominee.

So we go from taking the white house and expanding the senate to losing the white and losing the senate.

Who the f is running the dem party" Forget that question ... it 's obvious the MSM and the republican party that hijacked the nominee via cross-over voting.
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