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• The Smirking Chimp | News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (#): ... tools: email print read more Robert Parry John McCain must hope that Americans won’t read the entire New York Times story about his friendship with a female lobbyist, because if they do, they’ll realize that his statement – that he “has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists” – simply ...
• Corrente | Boldly shrill ... (#): Submitted by xan on Wed, 2008-02-20 21:28. There’s something very, very weird about this NYT Lusty McCain and His Busty Lobbyist story. ...
• All Spin Zone: ... Money is often no object and they will frequently take unwise and unwarranted risks. Hence, when these individuals are in the throes of their latest interlude, their judgment is not only suspect; it may well be incorrigible. As I read the accounts of Senator McCain’s involvement with lobbyist Vicki Iseman , I immediately recalled watching an episode of Headliners and Legends chronicling his life. The pursuit of women was a persistent theme of the biography…a pattern not only confirmed by friends of McCain; but also by McCain himself. ...
• Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community (#): by BooMan Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 11:25:38 PM EST The New York Times has a shameful hit piece out on McCain that accuses him, without definitive evidence, of carrying out an extramarital affair eight years ago with a telecom lobbyist that had business before his committee. ...
• She Flies With Her Own Wings (#): ... An increasingly rare Republican who doesn't just talk straight . Mr. Chief Justice, I intend to vote to convict the President of the United States on both articles of impeachment. To say I do so with regret will sound trite to some, but I mean it sincerely. ...
• MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics (#): ... Read the whole piece by Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W. Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick and Stephen Labaton here . And, please, a little tact in the comments section, if possible... Update [2008-2-20 20:17:1 by Todd Beeton]:Hilarious that this would break the day after McCain says ...
• Attytood: ... official kickoff of the fall campaign We've only just begun : That February, Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman attended a small fund-raising dinner with several clients at the Miami-area home of a cruise-line executive and then flew back to Washington along with a campaign aide on the corporate ...
• Pandagon: ... Oh boy, an all-but-certain Republican nominee who allegedly can’t keep it in his pants…my, my, what else can expect in this election year? In a lengthy NYT piece that has been in the works for some time — John McCain’s staffers in 2000 were so concerned about the 71-year-old Arizona senator’s relationship with Vicki Iseman, a 40-year-old lobbyist, that they told him to put the kibosh on ...
• TAPPED | The American Prospect (#): ... Plank to plant a post dismissing this morning's New York Times McCain story , which he claims is proof that the Times is “in the tank for Obama.” ...
• Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall (#): ... 27, 2008 - February 2, 2008 Click here to view the full archive NYT: Advisers Intervened in McCain's Relationship with Female Lobbyist In a long piece on John McCain's post-Keating Five ethical conduct, the Times focuses on the candidate's relationship eight years ago with a much younger female lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. ...
• Hullabaloo: ... notices a couple of interesting tid-bits in the NT Times story , like the fact that McCain's lobbyist campaign manager has been working for free for months. I wonder if he expects anything in return? ...
• Salon - The Blog Report - Home: ... TOWNHALL What's the Quickest Way to Rally Conservatives 'Round McCain? A sandbagging from the NYT of just this skeezy a nature. This doesn't reflect badly on anyone but the Times, as far as I'm concerned. ...
• Crooks and Liars (#): ... Breaking news on Countdown today, The New York Times is reporting that top advisers from Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign allege that they were convinced he was having a romantic relationship with Vicki Iseman, a telecom lobbyist, and that they had to “intervene to protect McCain from ...
• The Washington Monthly (#): ... Which is true. And yet, it was all over the place. To ignore it seemed like putting my head in the sand. Then, today, we have the kinda-sorta-maybe-John-McCain-ha... non-story in the New York Times. Should I not blog about that? If I didn't, I think I'd be the only blogger in the galaxy to avoid it. I'm curious: what do y'all think about this? Should I stick to my guns and avoid this kind of stuff? ...
• Rising Hegemon (#): ... elections law by using possible public financing as collateral for loans (directly and indirectly). The NYT have at least demonstrated that the focus on ethics is a lie. Of course, in the Bush era - ethics are whatever someone says, not what they do. ...
• The Sideshow: ... a combination sex-and-corruption scandal rises up to suggest McCain has been in bed with a lobbyist - literally - threatening to revive all the other dirt he was hoping everyone had forgotten, his campaign is threatened, accusations are thrown at The New York Times , and Mike Huckabee's failing candidacy sees the star of hope rise once again. ...
• Think Progress (#): The New York Times reports on Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman during his first run for the GOP nomination in 2000, which often led to political favors: A champion of deregulation, Mr. McCain wrote letters in 1998 and 1999 to the Federal Communications Commission urging it to uphold ...
• Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog: ... And, as Digby and Lerxst point out, the key paragraph in the New York Times story is this one: “Unless he gives you special treatment or takes legislative action against his own views, I don’t think his personal and social relationships matter,” said Charles Black, a friend and ...
• War and Piece: ... in the NYT yesterday, also is reportedly the lawyer for McCain, hired to push back on these allegations, who managed to at least delay the big NYT story that ran today. Kevin Drum sums up the reasons it came out now). ...
• Oliver Willis (#): ... Business just picked up. Breaking in the NY Times now ... Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• No More Mister Nice Blog: ... I just heard NBC's Chuck Todd on TV saying that the New York Times story hinting at a 2000 affair between McCain and a much younger lobbyist could actually help him by inspiring anger at the Times among his supporters. The problem is, McCain doesn't have supporters like that. ...
• Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com: ... 21, 2008 Dare to dream On the subject of the New York Times' maybe-bombshell on McCain , I really don't have any intention to get into a rousing, uncompromised defense of the Times' total journalistic integrity. They've screwed up on stories in the past, as has every other credible news source in the country. ...
• The Mahablog (#): ... Party — maha @ 2:50 pm I’m still trying to piece together the backstory on this morning’s near-allegations that maybe John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist eight years ag o. What I’ve seen of the backstory is a lot more interesting than the story, which does seem a tad thin. ...
• ArchPundit: ... You get a big name relatively popular with independents Presidential Candidate to come in for a fundraiser and a story breaks about some odd relationship with a lobbyist who has a strikingly similar look to his wife.  Pascoe has one of the oddest records in politics–mostly losing and losing bizarrely.    For more fun, think of the puns Iseman and Maverick The Iseman ...
• the talking dog (#): The Unseen Editor sends along this Grey Lady hit-piece on Republican Presidential nominee (if we can't say it now... then when?) Sen. John McCain, weaving in vague and unproven allegations of improprieties (including not so vague innuendo of a possible romantic relationship between the now 71 year old ...
• Blog for America » Front » Page 1 (#): ... Promoted Thursday, 02/21/08 @ 03:00 pm. Published Thursday, 02/21/08 @ 11:00 am Last night, the NY Times posted an article on its website about John McCain's relationship with a lobbyist for the telecommunications industry: "As his relationship with a female lobbyist underscores, John McCain’s confidence in his own integrity sometimes ...
• KnoxViews | News and views of the community by the community (#): Submitted by Bbeanster on Wed, 2008/02/20 - 7:57pm. Looks like Cindy might have been out-of-sorts yesterday and taken it out on Mrs. Obama. Link... Bbeanster's blog ...
• Shadow of the Hegemon (#): ... Why is Mike Huckabee doggedly staying in the race, when he has absolutely no hope of victory? He'd need a miracle to win! Well, to paraphrase Hans Gruber: You wanted a miracle, gentlemen? I give you the New...York...Times . Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight ...
• WTF Is It Now?!?: ... McCain Fucks Special Interests The blogosphere is burning up over the newly published Times story about straight talking, octagenarian maverick John McStain's "inappropiate behaviour" with a female lobbyist almost half his age while offering her a seat on his staff. ...
• Blah3 - I Am The Adversary, And Must Remain The Adversary: ... So, by now everyone has heard about the New York Times story that alleges that John McCain may have had an inappropriate relationship with a telecom lobbyist. ...
• JustOneMinute (#): ... Times endorsed Republican front-runner John McCain now has to deal with innuendo from the Times - allegedly he got too cozy with an attractive young telecom lobbyist back in 1999 and may have done her political favors or, well, received ...
• skippy the bush kangaroo (#): ... says the nytimes is reporting that mclame has been "tied to" a 40 year old blonde lobbyist: msnbc broke into hardball to announce this news that just appeared on the new york times website: john mccain is tied to a 40 year old female lobbyist 8 years ago. both deny an improper relationship. that's not what others suggest. a female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. convinced the ...
• Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post: ... NYT Bombshell: McCain's Aides "Intervened To Protect The Candidate From Himself" Quick Read ...
• AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth (#): ... Tonight, the New York Times posted a blockbuster article about the relationship between Senator John McCain and a female lobbyist nearly half his age. As you can see from the photo above, this has become the breaking news sensation on cable news. ...
• MF Blog (#): ... Keating Five of Congressmen involved in the larger Savings & Loan scandals of the 1980s. And the issue over a sexual relationship with this lobbyist has obscured McCain's cozy relationship with a media contributor, Paxon Communications , for whom the lobbyist had done lobbying work. I continue to despise the corporate media's obsesssion with a politician's personal life. ...
• The Rude Pundit: ... Such is life. It had a kick. It was smoky enough, and it fortified us against the coming walk in the cold. Just before we heading outside to check out the darkening moon, the first reports came in: look at the New York Times, they said, John McCain is not who he says he is, and then they showed a picture of Vicki Iseman, whom we all agreed was eminently fuckable. ...
• Democratic Underground: ... But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a l Discuss NYT ...
• Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs: ... 'Dreams Alone Won't Make Anything' ... Claim: McCain Too Close to Female Lobbyist ... ...
• Eschaton (#): ... Wednesday, February 20, 2008 I don't know where the Boss is... But HOLY CRAP! McCain alleged to have have a wacky problem familiar to all Clinton fans. -Attaturk ...
• Fierce Planet (#): • John McCain is and has been an adulturer. • John McCain at times has behaved unethically. This is just more of the same , and is completely in character for him. UPDATE: A friend reminds me that, of course, McCain Rules will hold here, not Clinton Rules. ...
• Interesting Times (#): What I think will be the most fascinating aspect of this story is the extent the right-wing media machine (TV, radio, newsprint, blogs, etc.) will defend McCain. Many of them don't like McCain. But they also don't like the NY Times. Oy what a conflict! ...
• King of Zembla (#): ... But sweet baby Jesus! -- it sounds like John McCain is literally in bed with the telecom lobby ! PHOTOS: Telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman (left); presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain (right). ...
• Lawyers, Guns and Money (#): ... I can gather, at least from the standpoint of someone who has never thought John McCain had any particularly high level of integrity and could care less even if unsubstantiated implications that he might have had sex with someone not his wife are true, this is about as much a "blockbuster" as The Hottie and the Nottie. ...
• Low on the Hog (#): Reacting to the news that straight-talkin' maverick John McCain may have had an affair with a lobbyist to whom he later showered gubmint lucre, righties have two responses: 1. The NYT is corrupt, duh, and 2. ...
• Marginal Utility (#): ... After some interrogation, I determined that McCain was getting credit from having spent his time as a POW getting tortured and all. Now, with the latest revelations, we have (among other things): ...
• MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary (#): The angriest man in America this morning? It's not John McCain; it's Mitt Romney. McCain stands accused by The New York Times of having too cozy a relationship with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist for telecom firms with interests before a Senate committee he led. But Romney must be gnashing his white-as-can-be teeth over the timing of this disclosure. ...
• Newsfare: ... as a Repast, Not Yet Complete The Long Run: For McCain, Self-Confidenceon Ethics Poses Its Own Risk ...
• Oh!pinion (#): ... was Sen. John McCain smitten with an attractive blonde female lobbyist 30-some years his junior, as indicated in a New York Times expos today? Frankly, we don’t know and don’t care; it’s Enquirer-grade personal-life material. ...
• Pen-Elayne on the Web: ... We're increasingly discovering that this hope ain't much. On Wednesday he spent half an hour discussing supposed allegations in a New York Times article that weren't even the point of the article, and weren't even allegations as much as a "teaser" to get people to read beyond the first few paragraphs. As those first paragraphs implied "SEX!" ...
• Perrspectives: Blog: ... NY Times Endorsed McCain Before Running Scandal Piece The blogosphere is abuzz with the New York Times story about presumptive GOP nominee John McCain and the nature of his relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman. It remains unclear why the paper sat on the story since December. ...
• Random Thoughts from Reno: ... John McCain screwed around on his first wife upon returning from captivity; he has admitted this. What hasn't been clear was his relationship with a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman . Some rumormongers who knew McCain suspected there was more than a business relationship between the two. This alleged relationship occurred eight years ago, and both Iseman and McCain deny any wrongdoing. ...
• The Rhetorica Network: Analysis of Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Spin in Politics and Journalism (#): In regard to today's story about John McCain in The New York Times, Kelly McBride, an ethicist with Poynter, opened her remarks this way: Within minutes of posting a long ...
• SW's Energy Gap (#): For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk - New York Times I would screw all the lobbyists. # posted by SW @ ...
• The Hotline's Blogometer (#): ... MCCAIN: Smeared! Most conservative bloggers are defending McCain against what they perceive to be a "smear" by the New York Times : RedState's Erick Erickson: "If you ever wanted to know who the New York Times thinks is the enemy, look no further than their hit job on John McCain ...
• The Blog - The Huffington Post: ... Is Vicki Iseman The Republican Right is already howling over the bombshell dropped by The New York Times on John McCain, the GOP's all-but-official nominee. It's an outrage, they say. A deliberate torpedo. ...
• BlondeSense (#): ... When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s client, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement. Continued How does the television media cover this? By attacking the messengers. Really. Just turn it on and see, if you dare. ...
• The Reaction (#): ... post by Swampcracker There is one thread in the recent NYT narrative that is consistent with other accounts of McCain's infamously idiosyncratic personality. ...
• BAGnewsNotes: ... crystallized a picture of the GOP as ethically bankrupt, I'm interested to see whether Iseman's photo -- paired with the NYT story, and a little more digging -- comes to hang McCain with a similar symbolism. For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk (NYT) McCain's Ties To Lobbyist Worried ...
• Bark Bark Woof Woof (#): The reaction to the McCain/Iseman story has been a lot more telling than the story itself, and you can see that the pundits and bloggers are putting their own spin or agenda behind the interpretation. It’s this week’s Rorschach test of the campaign. ...
• BlueOregon: progressive politics, news, and commentary for Oregon: ... New York Times has dropped a bombshell into the 2008 presidential campaign: Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• Calitics California Politics Blog. California Progressive Blog. Progressive California. California weblog. (#): ... In 2000, Schnur was Communications Director for John McCain. The New York Times is now reporting that there was a crisis within that "small circle of advisers" about what is now a major scandal: A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client's corporate jet. ...
• David Corn: ... Comments Responding to The New York Times' article disclosing an all-too-cozy relationship between John McCain and Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist for telecom firms that had business before a Senate committee McCain chaired, the McCain campaign on Wednesday night zapped out an email to journalists in which ...
• Democrats.com | The Aggressive Progressives!: ... Supreme Ayatollah James Dobson? (Call A-FAMILY to find out.) The New York Times and the Washington Post both report that John McCain did lots of favors in 1999 for clients of lobbyist Vicki Iseman (left), a ...
• Easter Lemming Liberal News (#): I was going to do a post about past McCain scandals but a new one has broken out . Note that this looks a lot like how he met and married his present wife while his first wife was in the hospital. ...
• Internet Weekly Report - Issue 310 - Week of 02/18/2008: ... As The Blog Turns 02/21/2008 McCain's Fundamental Blind Spot - Arrogance It's interesting how CNN featured this story in the NY Times as an accusation that McCain had an affair with a ...
• In Search Of Utopia (#): WASHINGTON - Early in Senator John McCain's first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• Left in the West | Montana Politics (#): ... Feb 20, 2008 at 23:46:03 PM MST Big scandal news today out of the New York Times: John McCain had an uncomfortably close, relationship - according to McCain staffers - with lobbyist Vicki Iseman at the same time he was working on her clients' behalf in the Senate commerce committee, of which he was chair: A champion of deregulation, Mr. McCain wrote letters in 1998 and 1999 to the Federal Communications Commission urging it ...
• Make Them Accountable: ... percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates to erase Barack Obama’s lead, a daunting task requiring landslide-sized victories by a struggling presidential candidate. For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk (The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• Middle Earth Journal (#): Commentary By Jazz Oh me oh me oh my. The New York Times has decided to run with a story which will very likely undo some of the damage they did to John McCain among his base by endorsing him. ...
• NDN Blog | NDN Blog (#): ... McCain Here's a link to the already famous New York Times story about John McCain, lobbyists and Viicki Iseman. Here's a link to a new poll showing Bush tumbling to 19%. ...
• Obsidian Wings (#): by publius Gotta say, I’m underwhelmed by the NYT’s McCain bombshell . The whole thing just seems so odd that I wasn’t sure what to say about it. But anyway, here are some tentative thoughts: First, without more, the NYT story seems extremely reckless. ...
• Once Upon a Time... (#): ... We must occasionally make do with what is closer to hand. (Careful now...) Most of Hannity's discussion (with Bob Bennett, among others) was about the outrage of the NY Times' outrageously outrageous smearing of McCain . La di da. When Bennett had departed the scene, Hannity took some calls. One caller announced that he had been a liberal ALL.HIS.LIFE., but that he was just about ready to "turn." ...
• PBD - Progressive Blog Digest: ... The Iseman cometh. . . http://www.nytimes.com/... Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: ... Left on February 21, 2008 at 6:36 AM. While only a few news outlets have picked up on the story in the New York Times about a close relationship John McCain had with a telecom lobbyist , one of the first out of the gate is actually Fox News. ...
• Preemptive Karma: everything that goes around comes around (#): I heard yesterday that some big exposé on John McCain was in the offing, supposedly detailing his unethical relationships with lobbyists. But when I read today's big story in the New York Times all I got from it was a queasy feeling. Not about McCain, but rather about the desperate, shoddy journalism that would produce something like this and try to pass it off as a big story. ...
• RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls: ... GOP Turns to General NYT Hits McCain on Ethics ...
• Taegan Goddard's Political Wire (#): A front page New York Times story about Sen. John McCain possibly having a romantic relationship with a female lobbyist will certainly dominate the presidential campaign headlines for the next several days. ...
• The Garlic: ... before the storm clouds could gather sufficiently to ruin Hillary's Great Day, it started raining gifts. For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk Her potential (hark back to The Other Clinton, and the miracle needed) opponent in the general ...
• Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines (#): ... Did unwanted attention from a New Republic scribe prod The New York Times into printing its long-awaited story about certain alleged snags in Sen. John McCain’s moral fabric? ...
• UNDERNEWS (#): ... NY TIMES STORY ON MCCAIN AND HIS LOBBYIST FRIEND NY TIMES - Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying h
• Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip: ... And Innuendo At Last! What, you haven’t read the shocking John McCain story about how Mr. Straight Talk is literally in bed with the lobbyists? Here it is, again. [ New York Times ] And now, my friends, warmonger McCain has trained his sights on the real enemy: the New York Times. [Politico] After months of saying the voters will have to ...
• Democrat Taylor Marsh Broadcasts Live Talk Radio and Blogs Politics (#): ... that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement. ... .. For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk The story is that the New York Times held the story. Why break it now? The story, if you read it, doesn't close the case. ...
• The Reality-Based Community: ... McCain Apparently this has been an open secret for years. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with a senator doing to a lobbyist what the lobbyists do to the rest of us. ...
• ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: ... The New York Times has published an odd article about John McCain's past: Early in Senator John McCain's first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• culturekitchen | fresh dissent served daily (#): ... So it's just amazing that they'll come out with a hit job against John McCain. In an allegedly "investigative" report of John McCain's ethics, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk is a thinly vield gossip piece about whether he was lobbied hard, really really hard, by a woman called Vicki Iseman. I am of two minds about this. ...
• The Democratic Party: ... Thursday, February 21, 2008 McCain Camp Pushes Back Lobbyist Article with E-Mail Ask from Lobbyist Define irony: Last night, the New York Times published an article chronicling John McCain's unethical run-ins over the years, and alleging that he may have aided a telecommunications lobbyist with regulators while chair of the Senate Commerce Committee. ...
• Article 19: ... Wednesday, February 20, 2008 McCain Scandal [UPDATED] The NYTimes is reporting tonight - and MSNBC interrupted into its regular programming to announce it as breaking news - that John McCain had a friendly relationship with a female lobbyist that was troubling enough to his staff that they confronted both the Senator and the ...
• The Broad View (#): ... Jefferson-Jackson Dinner (tomorrow night!) that she's been able to avoid the explosions of fresh idiocy in Campaign '08. I am referring, of course, to the NYTimes' McCain story that has been dominating cable news, blog posts, rightwing talk radio and political coverage in print since last night. I first heard about it while watching Hardball. ...
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera (#): This is just what Huckabee has been waiting for! McCain has maybe been cuddling with a Washington lobbyist ! Posted by alice at 07:46 PM Comments
• Brains and Eggs (#): At his age? With a wife as cute as this? ...
• D-Day (#): I'm frankly stunned by this article about John McCain and a female lobbyist. Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. ...
• Hoffmania! | All That's Left! Liberal News & Free Speech (#): According to Richard Wolfe on MSNBC tonight, this has apparently been known around Washington's inner circle for ages. The 400-lb gorilla is kinda sittin' there wearing a "Why now?" t-shirt. It really doesn't seem to benefit anyone (except Huckabee - and please. ...
• I can't believe it's not a democracy! (#): For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk . Yes, the Keating Five scandal is revisited, but there's more. What more? Oh, like a past (or is it just past) possible sex scandal (yes, I just threw up a little in my mouth). ...
• Norwegianity (#): ... But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity. [ Jim Rutenberg et al, New York Times ] The possible sex is really the least of the allegations in this article which is rife with unseemly conduct and way too cozy relations with lobbyists and business interests. But the sex will do for now. ...
• The Osterley Times (#): ... However, I would like to express my sympathy to him for the dreadful hit job carried out in today's New York Times. A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. ...
• Thought Theater: ... Money is often no object and they will frequently take unwise and unwarranted risks. Hence, when these individuals are in the throes of their latest interlude, their judgment is not only suspect; it may well be incorrigible. As I read the accounts of Senator McCain's involvement with lobbyist Vicki Iseman , I immediately recalled watching an episode of Headliners and Legends chronicling his life. The pursuit of women was a persistent theme of the biography...a pattern not only confirmed by friends of McCain; but also by McCain himself. ...
• Truth, Justice & Peace (#): ... This is certainly taking the phrase he's in bed with lobbyists to a whole new level. In a piece on the ethical issues of Mr. Ethics, the NYTimes reports that John McCain was having an affair during his last campaign run, For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk : Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight ...
• Wizbang (#): ... John McCain for president. Of course, the primary reasons they gave for that boiled down to "he's not George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, or Mike Huckabee," but it was an endorsement nonetheless. Now, barely a month later, they drop the bomb on their guy : he had an affair with a lobbyist. Well, that's how it's being played out. ...
• Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (#): Posted on February 21, 2008, 12:46am Matt Welch The New York Times has uncorked a lengthy, long-awaited, weirdly written, (mostly) anonymously sourced, six-reporter article about John McCain that people will remember mostly for hinting in a not-quite-convincing way that he was having an extra-marital affair in the late 1990s ...
• Muckraker | Talking Points Memo |: ... By Paul Kiel - February 21, 2008, 9:36AM This John McCain does not need. While he's busy this morning responding to this morning's New York Times story , the AP reports that the head of the Federal Elections Commission is questioning whether McCain will be allowed to drop out of the public financing system. ...