Captain Petard
Well, well, well. Look who got caught sticking his dingaling in a woman who’s not his [second] wife.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
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.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. 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.
Good old St. McCain, letting his maverick out. And not only did he let his maverick out: it looks like Mr. Straight Talk was doing favors for his lobbyist ladyfriend.
A champion of deregulation, Mr. McCain wrote letters in 1998 and 1999 to the Federal Communications Commission urging it to uphold marketing agreements allowing a television company to control two stations in the same city, a crucial issue for Glencairn Ltd., one of Ms. Iseman’s clients. He introduced a bill to create tax incentives for minority ownership of stations; Ms. Iseman represented several businesses seeking such a program. And he twice tried to advance legislation that would permit a company to control television stations in overlapping markets, an important issue for Paxson.
In late 1999, Ms. Iseman asked Mr. McCain’s staff to send a letter to the commission to help Paxson, now Ion Media Networks, on another matter. Mr. Paxson was impatient for F.C.C. approval of a television deal, and Ms. Iseman acknowledged in an e-mail message to The Times that she had sent to Mr. McCain’s staff information for drafting a letter urging a swift decision.
Mr. McCain complied. He sent two letters to the commission, drawing a rare rebuke for interference from its chairman. In an embarrassing turn for the campaign, news reports invoked the Keating scandal, once again raising questions about intervening for a patron.
At least one voice in the left-wing blogosphere thinks the story is thin and (in his words) a “shameful hit piece”, saying that the New York Times “will take a well deserved hit for publishing this”. My response?
HAND MR. McCAIN HIS ANVIL.
If it was good enough for Clinton, it’s good enough for McCain. The other night I watched ABC News all but declare Obama a cult leader who’s coming for your daughter or son. Meanwhile O’Reilly’s talking about lynching the dude’s wife. And I’m supposed to be worried that the New York Times is treating McCain unfairly? Boo hoo. Boo fucking hoo hoo hoo hoo. I weep tears of piss for the Bullshit Express, who voted Guilty on Clinton’s impeachment around the same time he was sticking his own moralizing dick in a woman that’s not his [second] wife/ Boo hoo hoo for Senator Straight Talk. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
McCain not only cheated on his [second] wife, as the Times points out he gave his mistress preferential treatment and took a free ride on her jet where he probably joined the Mile High Club (if the old codger was able to maintain an erection). And shocker of shockers, someone’s made political hay out of it.
Is it true? Who fucking cares? McCain certainly didn’t in the 1990s when he was helping to impeach Bill Clinton over a blow job, so why should he be extended any special courtesy?
Hoist Mr. McCain and his party of nitwits and boobs by their collective petard, and then hand the man his anvil.
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February 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
The last two times you wrote about dingalings, I immediately though about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_B62k9sQk