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McCain`s REALLY,REALLY,BIG STORY 9/20



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MillerbullFeb 21, 2008 10:04am
The usual suspects heads are sploding on talk radio:

    Limbaugh:
    Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail to Politico: "The story is not the story. The story is the Drive By media turning on its favorite maverick and trying to take him out. The media picked the GOP's candidate, the NYT endorsed him while they sat on this story, and is now, with utter predictability, trying to destroy him."

    Ingraham:
    Ingraham began her show this morning with a brief dig at McCain's years of cozying up to the mainstream media, but then declared: "You wait until it's pretty much beyond a doubt that he's going to be the Republican nominee, and then you let it drop -- drop some acid in the pool, contaminate the whole pool. That's what The New York Times thinks."

    David Brody (What? Who?):
    David Brody, who has a large evangelical audience for his "Brody File" blog on CBN.com, wrote this morning: "In [the] conservative world, if The New York Times does a `hit job' on you then you wear that as a conservative badge of honor. This story could actually HELP John McCain."

    Rick Davis (What? Who? Oh, his campaign manager.)
    McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis told CBS's "The Early Show" that the article is the "worst kind of tabloid journalism."

    Greg Mueller (What? Who? A theme is emerging...)
    Greg Mueller, a veteran Republican strategist, said conservatives would side with McCain against the paper they love to hate. "The New York Times is trying to Swift Boat McCain," Mueller said. "This is the first real salvo of the general election. Certainly, the Times cannot complain about a negative general election campaign since they fired the first shot.



Three problems:

1) For the record, Drudge was the first to run the story on Thu Dec 20 2007 10:49:27 ET


2) Complaints about timing seem overblown. If anything, the NYT leaked it at the best possible time. If they leak it earlier, it looks like they're trying to knock McCain out. If they leak it later, it looks like they're trying to influence the general. Now, however, is the best time, both because the general is a long time away and because it theoretically lets the GOP select a new nominee if these stories hold up. (link)

3) The accusations are being leveled not by the NYT, but by
    GOP operatives.

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ntltrmllgncFeb 21, 2008 10:13am
The only reason knocking McCain out early (or seeming so) is worse than fence sitting is that it would expose a dead horse.

However, the time to even think of choosing a new nominee is so short, that sitting on the fence actually does poison the election.

Maaaaaan, all those bound hypothetical delegates up for grabs. I think I'll see what the county and state conventions say.

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MillerbullFeb 21, 2008 10:17am
*chuckles*

Ah man, those guys quoted in 43 are the real CULT. Mindless zombies.

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ntltrmllgncFeb 21, 2008 10:24am
They Luntzed it, not very well though.

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MillerbullFeb 21, 2008 12:47pm



"I'm the only Candidate That The Special Interests Don't Give Money To"

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ntltrmllgncFeb 21, 2008 1:07pm
What the hell does this have to do with Val Kilmer?

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MillerbullFeb 21, 2008 2:50pm
The New Republic, which reportedly was the impetus for the Times running the McCain story yesterday, has now published its article about the history of the Times' article and investigation.

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ntltrmllgncFeb 21, 2008 2:55pm
I still think the key here is the letter McCain wrote.

This is part burial part damage control. I'm repulsed.
1623984Feb 21, 2008 9:12pm
The idea is to kill two birds with one stone. They want to kill McCain and Hillary in one fell swoop (via the election)...then they'll spend the next four years bashing, being uncooperative with, President Obama. THEN...they'll run the "smart" Bush...Jeb. It's been done before. That was the Carter presidency in a nutshell. They know they aren't going to win this election. So, the best thing they can do is destroy their favorite whipping boy and girl and then shoot for 2012.

Jeb will run in 2012 as the "smart Bush". You can bet on it. And, in the meantime, rather than do the right thing, solve some of the American people's problems, and the world's issues, they'll stall, destroy, and do whatever they can to do nothing, blame it on the democrat...and Boom...it's back to the usual bullshit.

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MillerbullFeb 21, 2008 9:50pm
It appears that John McCain is a liar:


    Just hours after the Times' story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff--and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," the campaign said in a statement emailed to reporters.

    But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. "I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue," McCain said in the September 25, 2002 deposition obtained by Newsweek. "He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint."


McCain`s REALLY,REALLY,BIG STORY 9/20