Comments on: In McCain Saga, Newspaper Becomes A Story

After Story Suggesting Romantic Relationship Between John McCain And Lobbyist, Critics Question New York Times' Motivation

[mbcsmith]

The far-left NYT tried to do a hit job on John McCain. It is so obvious to any thinking person that this yellow journalism was nothing more than innuendo and defamation. I''ve heard pundits describing NYT as a "great American newspaper". After years of plagiarism and made up stories, they are from from great.

[cfin5]

I always hope that stories like this aren''t true no matter who it pertains to. His wife is very pretty yet stern like my wife. In fact they could be sisters. So if John''s telling fibs,.....he''s a goner. No other way to put it.

[auroranorth-2009]

Johnny Mexican strikes again !

[samthetvcat]

You have to wonder whether the reaction from Repubs would have been different if this exact same story had been released as soon as the Times got their info . . .

I find it hard to imagine Rush Limbaugh wouldn''t seize that opportunity to destroy McCain''s campaign and tout Romney as the family man.

And where''s Huckabee been all day . . . I can''t believe he''s been getting a free pass from Repubs - the Evangelicals came up with that mailer of the ''illegitimate black love child'' . . . I highly doubt it''s beneath them to leak a story that looks to actually be true.

Probably the Repub rule of thumb for smear campaigns is if it''s totally false, release it in a mailer; if it''s true, release it to the papers HA HA ;P

[akakjb]

I wish he''d admit to it and use the opportunity to show that, unlike a former POTUS, he can admit that he was able to reel in some sweet young thing and she was 200% better looking than Lewinski. It would be the most interesting thing so far in his campaign and would probably cement the older, white guy vote from both parties just because of the ''score one for the Man From AARP'' factor.

[watcher269-2009]

So What! FOX - No News does this all the time and no-one complains - well from the Republicans anyway. Or Rush Limpballs - Why is it Republicans can make up stories and get away with it and Democrats are slammed for telling the Truth. Hmmm, Republican double standards.

[samthetvcat]

HarryDoghiny, right on! Check out the pridefulness of Laura Ingraham . . .

---Ingraham said triumphantly, %u201CI ask the McCain campaign this question: Do you think you need talk radio now? Do you think that talk radio%u2019s important to set the record straight, or do you think a press conference, where the media is shouting question after question at you %u2014 do you think that''s going to put an end to all of this?%u201D---

It''s almost got this air to it like ''bow down to me, revere me, for I am God and your fate is in our (hers, Rush''s, etc) hands and our hands alone'' . . . so much for being the party of personal responsibility . . .

[kmccliment]

Posted by sesanders1 at 01:00 AM : Feb 22, 2008

Very well put. I think that says it all. With that I will be retiring for the night. Ladies/ gentlemen goodnight..

As a progressive, I am instinctively inclined to find wrongdoing when they are Republicans, but my reaction to the McCain story in the Times was one of confusion. I couldn''t tell whether he had had an affair or not and I couldn''t tell whether he had been "unethical" in his dealings with this lobbyist. It did convince me that McCain did have contact with her on numerous occasions, had interceded for her, and taken plane rides. I do not like these facts about McCain but they are not really the issue here because they are established. The Times did not come out and say he had an affair and the reader is left to wonder. And I do wonder but am not convinced he did, and I''m not even convinced he was guilty of impropriety but I do think he was skating on the edge of it at the very least. His assistants were correct to curtail it.

[kmccliment]

Harry I think your dillusional....

[kmccliment]

I guess when DC had a crack using mayor elected twice some people forgot that cocain is a felony. Obama wouldnt be elegible to be a police officer but yet lets elect him as President. Yea right...

[harrydoghiny]

Does the MSM think we''re that stupid? Apparently so.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows this is a ploy to solidify the fringe right against a common enemy, the "liberal" media. ''Circle the wagons behind McCain, boys!" Mission accomplished, Rush!! Horseshitt.

[samthetvcat]

"I guess when Nancy Reagan was preaching, "Just Say No", Obama was saying I need some Blow..."
Posted by kmccliment

I guess that affirms my suspicions - that''s a shame response . . . the whole ''outrage'' and ''deny, attack, blame and shame'' is shame based . . .

It''s the Repubs who are kicking up all the fuss over this story - some Dems are gloating at the hypocrisy of the Repubs now decrying the ''vast-left-wing conspiracy'', but it''s not us who are the problem and the solution lies within all of you Repubs and your collective identity . . .

[kmccliment]

Pride has nothing to do with staying in Iraq. It has everything to do with global security. Iraq sits on a huge lake of oil. If we pull out, the strongest warlord in the region or Pakistan or Iran will come in and take over. The vast wealth that the oil brings will be used to fund the Jihad. Global terror. The extremist. I too wanted a pull out, however when I started looking at the hard truth. We will be there long after we pull out of S.Korea.

[kmccliment]

I guess when Nancy Reagan was preaching, "Just Say No", Obama was saying I need some Blow...

[samthetvcat]

pt 2

It''s almost like some kind of a dysfunction or something - inability to deal with reality. We need to stay a hundred years in Iraq because a couple of people are too proud to admit they screwed up . . .

The far right set themselves up with these impossible standards then can''t handle it when they fail. I question whether the right embraces standards as an ideal to strive for or whether it''s really being used as a platform upon which to stand and feel superior . . . big difference . . .

[kmccliment]

John has admitted that he was friends with this female lobbyist. So I ask, have you forgotten Obama and Hillary''s lobbyist pals. They all have them and its nothing new.

[kmccliment]

what scandel in the past are you talking about?

[samthetvcat]

I guess I''m in the minority in thinking it was absolutely the responsible move to print the story. It''s embarrassing to the McCains, but doesn''t present him as any more scandalous than he''s appeared in the past.

I''m actually outraged at peoples'' outrage in expecting newspapers to have had more proof before printing a story the evidence to me sounds true. It''s that kind of mentality that led people to want certitude with regards to the wmd''s in Iraq.

Like isn''t it actually possible that the NYT has the better judgment in this instance and it''s all the neocons who can''t tell what''s true unless they have a ''blue dress'' to prove it?

I look at all the pundits assuming McCain''s innocence and can''t help but visualize them being the type of people who have gotten played by gold-digging women and two-timing men - like they look like patsies, man.

Neocon patsies . . .

[randynason]

Bill Clinton was impeached for a similar situation. Why shouldn''t McCain be held to the same standard?