The prize for front-runner status
Posted by: reformedhippie in 2008 Elections, Civility, MediaUPDATED: 02/21/2008 at 14:31 CST
It’s a sign of the times… when you enter a political race the media goons start digging. Back in the old days it was generally accepted that most people were good and honest. And if there were skeletons in their closet the bones were squeaky white. and nobody paid much attention to them. Everyone makes mistakes. Not any more. These days anyone running for public office is assumed to have some corruption mixed with good old-fashioned sexual trysts mixed in for good measure. And in some cases where the facts don’t fit, the MSM will fill in the details at their whim. The New York Times however is the master of inventing news… skewing the facts… misleading the American people. For instance, starting May 1st 2004 the NYT published 32 successive page one and/or section one articles on Abu Ghraib.
This latest story on McCain is reckless and irresponsible. It is another prime example of the hit-and-run media trying to generate sleaze during a campaign cycle.
Just like this story that popped up about Obama this week:
The electrifying presidential campaign of Barack Obama faces a new challenge – a Minnesota man who claims he took cocaine in 1999 with the then-Illinois legislator and participated in homosexual acts with him.
When his story was ignored by the news media, Larry Sinclair made his case last month in a YouTube video, which has now been viewed more than a quarter-million times. And when it was still ignored by the media, Sinclair filed a suit in Minnesota District Court, alleging threats and intimidation by Obama’s staff.
Sinclair, who says he is willing to submit to a polygraph test to validate his claims, will now get his chance – thanks to a website offering $10,000 for the right to record it and $100,000 to Sinclair if he passes.
Now it’s McCain’s turn:
John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was last night romantically linked to a 40-year-old female political lobbyist and accused of granting her clients political favours.
Mr McCain, 71, fiercely denied a report in the New York Times which stated that eight years ago, during his first run for the White House, his aides were so concerned about his relationship with Vicki Iseman that they blocked her access to him to “protect the candidate from himself”.
Mr McCain and Ms Iseman both denied to the newspaper - which has been sitting on the story for several weeks - that they had ever had a romantic relationship. The story was first alluded to on the Drudge Report website just before the Iowa and New Hampshire nomination contests, but after frantic lobbying by Mr McCain and his aides at the time the New York Times did not publish it then.
Yet the New York Times story offers no proof… only guesswork on the part of McCain’s political team:
Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself…
By then, according to two former McCain associates, some of the senator’s advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene.
But again it is a sign of the times… rumor and innuendo rule the day for the MSM. They do not care about facts… just any kind of sleaze story they can reasonably dream up. America is loosing her way folks. Why isn’t the Obama story making the front page of the New York Times??? Because he is the liberal poster boy… and by and large the MSM is very, very liberal. They don’t want to turn on their own kind.
In fact John Weaver, McCain’s aid back in 1997, released a statement today debunking the NYT story:
The New York Times asked for a formal interview and I said no and asked for written questions. The Times knew of my meeting with Ms. Iseman, from sources they didn’t identify to me, and asked me about that meeting. I did not inform Senator McCain that I asked for a meeting with Ms. Iseman.
Her comments, which had gotten back to some of us, that she had strong ties to the Commerce Committee and his staff were wrong and harmful and I so informed her and asked her to stop with these comments and to not be involved in the campaign. Nothing more and nothing less.
I responded to the Times on the record about a meeting they already knew about. The campaign received a copy of my response to the Times the same day, which was in late December.
From the day I first approached John about running for President in 1997 and through today, I have always wanted John to be president. The country needs him at this perilous time. From the moment I left the campaign until today, not one day — not one –has gone by that I haven’t reactively or pro-actively talked with the campaign leadership, with state leadership about how the campaign and how to win. To suggest anything else is wrong, a lie and meant to do nothing but harm.
What does all of this have to do with the global war on terror… the financial tumult this country is going through… securing the borders… and all of the other problems this country has.
Everyone wants the “perfect” candidate for President. Assuming for a moment that both these stories are true… what are we left to choose from in November?
Ugh. Time for another cup of coffee.
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