NY Times & McCain – Secures Expected "Flatline" Response :: MAXINE

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url="http://maxine-log.blogspot.com/2008/02/ny-times-mccain-secures-expected.html"]Nobody
really thinks that the New York Times … or any mainstream newspaper … actually
pursues reporting (just the facts) or working in a professional journalistic
manner any more. Especially on topics that involve the Government and Politics.
What the MSM has trouble doing is separating the liberal, socialist agenda
biases and activism with the job of providing useful information based upon
true investigative and written journalistic ethics.

John McCain is a
target for the New York Times because he holds his attitude and character out
to be hallmarks of un-impeachable behavior.

The New York Times sat
on this “story” until now because John McCain, for the first time just this
last week, took off after the Democrats in their bid to become the preferred
candidate for the office of President of the United States.

It is the opinion
here, at MAXINE, that the New York Times wanted to place the first “brush back”
move on John McCain in order to have him shrink back into his familiar
“Maverick” territory and move back to his more liberal center positions.

Again, this week, on the
campaign stump, John McCain began to position himself with a little more of the
conservative base perspective when he spoke against the prospects of a Democrat
controlled Presidency. What better way to have John McCain become more beatable
than to have him become more supporting of liberal policies of the Democrat
Party? By hitting McCain and smearing his character, McCain will go back to
being more McCain like! If all we have is liberal policies and agendas to vote
for … WHY NOT JUST VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT – or not vote at all.

When John McCain came
out for his first news conference in front of reporters to answer questions,
what we were treated to was a flatline response from John McCain. It was DEAD
and without passion … one word responses without a clear indignation of the
tactics of the New York Times. He was agitated, but without edge.

It is just this motive
and response from John McCain we think the New York Times has moved this week
with this smear story against John McCain.

The NYT got exactly
what they wanted without much of a mark on them because this is what WE, the
reading public, come to expect.

John McCain, left, and Vicki Iseman. Published
reports later suggested a possible relationship between Ms. Iseman and John
McCain. Both have denied it. Image Credit: Getty Images

This excerpted from CBS Broadcasting –



McCain: Reports Of Relationship 'Not True'

Reports Question His Relationship With Lobbyist
Vicki Iseman

TOLEDO, Ohio (CBS)



John McCain denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications
lobbyist and said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her
clients is "not true."



"I'm very disappointed in the article. It's not true," the likely
Republican presidential nominee said as his wife, Cindy, stood alongside him
during a news conference called to address the matter.



McCain described the woman in question, lobbyist Vicki Iseman, as a friend.



The newspaper quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and Iseman
to stay away from each other before to his failed presidential campaign in
2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington
Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as
saying he met with lobbyist Iseman and urged her to stay away from McCain.



Weaver told the Times he arranged the meeting after "a discussion among
the campaign leadership" about Iseman.



McCain said he was unaware of any such conversation.



The Arizona
senator said he won't allow the report to distract him from his presidential
campaign.



"I will focus my attention in this campaign on the big issues and on the
challenges that face this country," he said.

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"This is like the worst kind of tabloid journalism," McCain campaign
manager Rick Davis told CBS' The Early Show. "We think it's unfair, unjust
and inaccurate."



The published reports said McCain and Iseman each denied having a romantic
relationship, and the paper offered no evidence that they had, saying only that
aides worried about the appearance of McCain having close ties to a lobbyist
with business before the Senate Commerce Committee on which McCain served.



The story alleges that McCain wrote letters and pushed legislation involving
television station ownership that would have benefited Iseman's clients.

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McCain defended his integrity last December, after he was questioned about
reports that the Times was investigating allegations of legislative favoritism
by the Arizona Republican and that his aides had been trying to dissuade the
newspaper from publishing a story.



"I've never done any favors for anybody - lobbyist or special-interest
group. That's a clear, 24-year record," he told reporters in Detroit.

Reference
Here>>

You
know, when one has a chance to reflect:



That since it is well known that the New York Times editorial staff was
“sitting” on this story for several months now (according
to the New Republic) and that the paper had just given their formal
endorsement as their choice as the Republican Party candidate they would like
to see as President (if it had to be a Republican, presumably) just before the Super Tuesday primaries …



… This whole episode of a smear story about John McCain, of eight (8) years
ago, published by the New York Times says a lot more about the character of the
New York Times than it does about the character of John McCain.

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