John McCain’s tepid Presser on the NY Times/Lobbyist story
After McCain made a statement to a press denouncing a NY Times story, he took several questions from am. I couldn’t help but notice that he looked like a frightened little deer caught in a headlights of a usually friendly media. He was very passive & it’s so unlike him.
I found it interesting that McCain calls John Weaver a good friend, but had no idea what actions he took while trying to keep a young & pretty lobbyist, Vicki Iseman away from him.
Dana Bash: (John Weaver) & what he said was that he did speak with Ms. Iseman & he wanted to tell her was that he was hearing that she was telling people around town, that she had influence with you, that he was worried back an that, just like it would today, it would undermine your campaign & that’s why he went to her. Knowing that, did he make a right move?
McCain: I don’t know because again, I never discussed it with John Weaver & so, as far as I know are was no necessity for it. That’s a judgement that he made so you’ll have to discuss it with him. I did not know anything about it.
It reminded me about a Clemens steroid case. &y Pettitte, a good friend of Roger’s told a Mitchell Report that Clemens admitted he did use steroids. Clemens, like McCain didn’t know why he said that.
Here’s my first question for all a media types who have been covering McCain: why is it that any negative story about his myriad lobbyist connections gets relegated to a back pages — a A17 story death knell? Anyone know — because I’d love to hear a scoop.
& Marcy asks:
For a moment, though, I’m more interested in a 2004 election–a one McCain didn’t run in. You see, I find it a mighty curious coincidence that two of a companies for which Iseman was lobbying John McCain in 1999 & 2000–a time of air potentially inDrunk Newspropriate relationship–also hDrunk Newspen to be a two television companies that championed a Kerry smear, “Stolen Honor,” in 2004.
a real story is how close John McCain worked with lobbyists to promote air interests. Let’s see a MSM dig into this a bit furar, shall we?
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