Feb 21 2008

McCain / Iseman Open Thread

C’mon.  You know you want to.

Alaska Report

Arkansas Times

New York Times (registration required)

Did John McCain have an affair with a lobbyist and use his power for her client?

by Peter Cohan, Blogging Stocks

Posted Feb 20th 2008 7:59PM

McCain/Lobbyist Story In The New York Times Finally Drops

Marc Armbinder, The Atlantic.com

McCain linked to attractive female lobbyist

Capitol Hill Blue

For McCain, self-confidence on ethics poses its own risk

By Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W. Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick and Stephen Labaton, International Herald Tribune

Published: February 21, 2008

Google News Breaking Updates (you get it as soon as the bots find it)

MSNBC Olbermann crawls-

New York Times Report links McCain To Female Lobbyist Viki Iseman

NT Times: McCain And Lobbyist Both Deny Romantic Relationship

NY Times: Aids To McCain’s 2000 Campaign “Interviened To Protect (McCain) From Himself”

NY Times: McCain Denied Impropriety In Call To Times Executive Editor Bill Keller

And the Right weights in (well I’ve never heard of them, but they’re a member of Pajamas Media and link to LGF in their Blogroll).

NYT: McCain may have behaved unethically and also cheated on his wife, but we’re not sure

Allahpundit, Hot Air.com

8:59

Scout Finch at dK adds the detail that she’s a TelCo Lobbyist, not just a.

FISA anyone?  Bueller?

Another Rightwing site, Death by 1000 Papercuts- Vicki Iseman: Who is Vicki Iseman?

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  1. Not bad for breaking.

  2. Not bad for breaking indeed, a week or two after he becomes the de facto nominee!

    Reporting worthy of the Baltimore Herald by Golly!

    • nocatz on February 21, 2008 at 02:42
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    on the Arkansas blog.

    • pfiore8 on February 21, 2008 at 02:49
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    just ew.

    hey ek, ot… yeah? or nay?

  5. I won’t put this above the fold, but the IHT version appears to be a full reprint of the NYT article, no subscription required.

  6. Boy do you ever jump right on the news!!

  8. Murdoch’s paper I think-

    TimesOnline

  9. for which there is little (no?) evidence, other than anonymous sources, is there any evidence of a betrayal of public trust?  McCain could fuck that woman until her hair supernovas into platinum, and I could give a fuck, unless it related to a betrayal of public trust.

  10. If I do say so myself, this coverage is as good as any on the net.

  11. steamiest romantic experience(s)with the NY Times, or LA Times, or Newsweek . . . or with us HERE

     

  12. Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship.

    So, it was just about the sex?

  13. From Raw Story-

    Washington lobbying firm pulls bio of lobbyist accused in McCain scandal, then readds it

    Of course since we had our ‘friends’ at DBKC post it, we always had a copy.

  14. What’s the Quickest Way to Rally Conservatives ‘Round McCain?

  15. McCain’s Ties To Lobbyist Worried Aides

    Before 2000 Campaign, Advisers Tried to Bar Her

    By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Michael D Shear, Washington Post Staff Writers

    Thursday, February 21, 2008; Page A01

    Aides to Sen. John McCain confronted a telecommunications lobbyist in late 1999 and asked her to distance herself from the senator during the presidential campaign he was about to launch, according to one of McCain’s longest-serving political strategists.

    John Weaver, who served as McCain’s closest confidant until leaving his current campaign last year, said he met with Vicki Iseman at the Center Cafe in Union Station and urged her to stay away from McCain. Association with a lobbyist would undermine his image as an opponent of special interests, aides had concluded.

    Members of the senator’s small circle of advisers also confronted McCain directly, according to sources, warning him that his continued relationship with a lobbyist who had business before the powerful Commerce Committee he chaired threatened to derail his presidential ambitions.

  16. McCain’s Bombshell Scandal

  17. Newspaper Revisits Old Rumors in New McCain Profile

    John McCain’s campaign lashed out Wednesday at a new report in The New York Times alluding to the Republican presidential candidate’s relationship with a female lobbyist.

    The article, to be published in Thursday’s edition of the Times but released the day before on its Web site, revisits rumors spread during McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign and tries to wipe the sheen off the Arizona senator’s record as an anti-special interest crusader, McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said

    “It is a shame that the New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign,” said Jill Hazelbaker, the McCain campaign’s communications director. “John McCain has a 24-year record of serving our country with honor and integrity. He has never violated the public trust, never done favors for special interests or lobbyists and he will not allow a smear campaign to distract from the issues at stake in this election.”

  18. McCain: Reports on Lobbyist a ‘Smear’

    By LIBBY QUAID – 22 minutes ago

    TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issued a statement Wednesday night saying he “will not allow a smear campaign” to distract from his campaign as published reports questioned his relationship with a lobbyist.

    The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with Vicki Iseman and urged her to stay away from McCain. The New York Times suggested an inappropriate relationship between the Arizona senator and Iseman, a Washington lobbyist. The New York Times quoted anonymous aides saying they had confronted McCain and Iseman, urging them to stay away from each other, before his failed presidential campaign in 2000.

    …

    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.

  19. “The Iseman Cometh.”

  20. Wonkette on Swampland.

    McCain Senior Adviser Responds to Times Story

  21. The New Republic-

    Weaver’s Revenge?

  22. Armando

  23. The very day after their endorsed primary candidate gets drubbed by almost 20 points, they run a sex scandal story to change the subject from all those articles that surely would have been talking about her campaign’s imminent demise.

    Nicely done.

  24. John McCain And The Telecom Lobbyist

  25. New York Times Takes On McCain for Ethics

  26. Vicki Iseman And Cindy McCain: Twins? Separated At Birth?

    Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | February 20, 2008 10:54 PM

    Why Did The NYT Hold McCain-Lobbyist Story?

    Sam Stein, The Huffington Post

    February 20, 2008 10:58 PM

    Why John McCain Owes The New York Times a Thank You Card

    Marc Cooper, The Huffington Post

    Posted February 21, 2008 | 12:56 AM (EST)

    Is This the Miracle Huckabee was Waiting For?

    Blake Fleetwood, The Huffington Post

    Posted February 20, 2008 | 11:02 PM (EST)

  27. The McCain Story

    By Josh Marshall

    02.20.08 — 10:48PM

  28. Fox News Issues Press Release Against New York Times

    by: Chris Bowers

    Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 23:44  

  29. NY Times: McCain staffers confronted Senator about inappropriately close relationship with young blonde female lobbyist

    by Joe Sudbay (DC)

    2/20/2008 08:45:00 PM ET

  30. This is the best, most link filled diary on the damn web.

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