McCain Sex Scandal Blonde Missing -- Day 12

Jimmy Breslin says there are only two headlines that sell newspapers: WAR and BIG GUY DIES. (Here at Huffington, the two headlines are OBAMA and SOMEONE'S NOT PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION TO OBAMA.) In cable news, the only stories anyone cares about involve missing white women, the blonder the better.

Elizabeth Smart and Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson and JonBenet Ramsey, Madeline McCann and Jessica Lynch, the Runaway Bride and the remains of Anna Nicole Smith. Those stories were made for cable. Sure, it's fun to watch a casino implode, the first hundred times, but it doesn't have the same urgent familiarity; the same prurient arc of tension and relief, like a cross between a nipple slip and a mining disaster. There's something about missing white women that just works for 24-hour news. Like shipwrecks in Shakespeare, or the way you can't write a truly awful folk song without mentioning smoking.

Is it news that we need? Of course not. I'm sure Natalee Holloway was a perfectly nice person, but unless there are particles of her in my drinking water, I don't need to know she's still gone.

As unsettling as the stories are, we can take a kind of comfort in the soothing inexorability of the coverage. The message is that the medium cares. If a woman goes missing -- and she's not black or poor -- CNN, Fox and MSNBC will cover it.

So what happened to the missing blonde woman in John McCain's lobbying scandal?

It's been twelve days.

Where on Earth is Vicki Iseman?

We've heard from John McCain:

"I'm very disappointed in the New York Times..."

And from Cindy McCain:

"I'm very, very disappointed in The New York Times..."

But what about Vicki Iseman? Isn't she disappointed?

Not even in Thomas Friedman?

Until we hear her speak, or hear she's been identified from dental records, how can we ever have closure?

It's not just that she's vanished, although that should be enough, considering her hair color. And it's not just that she's been tied to a U.S. senator with a very real chance of achieving America's highest office and then dying in it. It's that there are still only three pictures of her on Google.

She's been a lobbyist for eighteen years, but she's only been photographed three times. And one of those times was with President Bush. Unless she folds up neatly and fits inside Jack Abramoff's hat, it doesn't make sense.

Where's Vicki Iseman and where's the cable news coverage of her disappearance?

Email Nancy Grace at this address.

And demand to know.

Comments

[OleHippieChick]

Jayz, this is creepy. 22 days amd counting, then. If she's not on teevee, is she really missing?

[PioneerKing]

18 DAYS AND COUNTING

[itmaybetoolate]

In an undisclosed location - deep in dick's bunker?

[darker]

The republicans threatened and paid off enough media pund-idiots to take the Vicki story
and its MCCAIN CORRUPTION STORY off the news. And the corporate-run media is the
usual republican-slave.

[dr4Will]

all the money boys are paying off the cowardly media--they were bought off by bush in 2000 and now McCan't in 2008--the media--biased and pathetic!!

[Steamboater]

Where on in earth is Vicki Eisman? The media should be asking the same question. They practically got in bed with Gennifer Flowers. Eisman is probably secreted away in McCain's rendevouz spot--some cheap sleazy motel.

[schmuckwithearlaps]

Have you ever noticed that whenever Mr. Kelly posts something, there are people writing in saying it is the funniest thing they ever read and they can not stop laughing. Here we go again, underestimating the Republicans, failing to remember 2004 and 2000. I am sure Mr. Kelly was just as funny in 2004, but all the voters remembered was "flip flop, flip flop" and "purple hearts for self inflicted wounds".
This year the question is not will the Republicans totally discredit Obama, but which trick in their giant bag they will choose to use. Making fun of McCain is not very funny when it condemns us to eight more years of right wing rule. We have the most unpopular President in history and the Dems are meeting the challenge by finding a way to lose. This goes beyond wasting time hating Hillary (although that is quite a big waste of time). We are not talking issues that make sense to Americans. We have a horrible health care crisis and yet a two word phrase from the 1930's (socialized medicine) makes us hide in the corner and fail to articulate our plan. Now the Dems are falling all over themselves to bail out the speculators that bought the 5000 square foot homes that the rest of us lived without because we lived within our means. Limo liberals may not understand this, but sticking a finger in the eye of people who have sacrificed all their lives to live modestly does not get votes. If Obama can't talk issues to the majority of Americans we are done for in November. Voting against the war is not enough.
By November, McCain will be the peace candidate with his secret plan to get us out of Iraq. We must do better this year, and there is nothing to laugh about.

[Steamboater]

"Voting against the war is not enough."
I don't where you've been but both Obama and Hillary have certainly been talking about those without health care and doing something about it. They've also addressed the ditch the economy is in and jobs etc. I don't hear McCain coming up with specific plans to do anything except to prolong the war in Iraq.
McCain's affairs with Vicki Eisman certainly are an issue too--both fun ones and serious as well. This woman was a lobbyist he got in bed with politically and maybe personally. The media talks about McCain as a straight shooter who stands by his beliefs, but he didn't mind turning his back on those beliefs when he voted for torture/wa­terboardin­g. Some straight shooter huh?

[schmuckwithearlaps]

While you are technically correct that Obama and Clinton have talked about health care, their solutions are too weak to solve the problem of the uninsured, and I respectfully suggest that a weak proposal to solve our health care crisis is caused either by influence by the health care lobby or fear of socialized medicine backlash.  Either way stinks.  The message is not getting out. While I am sure if I studied the web sites of Obama and Hillary I would see great looking proposals on a variety of domestic issues, what is lacking is a resonating message to the 70% of the population who are in need of some major turn around in Washington.
I really do worry that the Dems do not really understand or have a real feel for the problems of the average American. People are concerned about crime, morality, jobs, health care, etc.
and if the Dems want to give us more platitudes, then people might feel McCain is a reasonable choice. If the Dems can put their finger on the pulse of America, there is still some hope for winning. Am I the only one who worries that Demo political advisors are about as familiar with the price of gasoline as George Bush? Am I the only one who thinks that the Republicans will paint the Dems as the party of gay marriage and abortion on demand once again? I have said often that Dems need to make up their minds about who the American people really are. Liberals who talk about joe six pack and rednecks and call well meaning honest people racists for backing the other candidates are not necessarily going to advise Obama correctly about getting the votes of the average American.

[schmuckwithearlaps]

I just watched McCain coast thro a question on health care on 60 Minutes by saying the difference he has with Dems is that he does not believe in forcing people by government order to buy health care insurance. This is a slight variation on the "garnishment of wages" them used recently against Clinton. I will bet you a dollar to a penny that neither Obama or Clinton pick up on this tomorrow. They will keep talking about each other while McCain frames the health care issue as his fight for our freedom from government intrusion.
Of course the lady who was in the national media for having her HMO cancel her coverage in the middle of chemo will not agree with him, but unless the Dems are smart about framing these issues the Republicans will be the heros, protecting the average American's wages from garnishment by the evil Democrats, who want to take your money to pay for someone's abortion or sex change surgery. Why do the Republicans even need a health care strategy when they can be our protectors in this manner? Don't think it can work? We didn't think purple hearts from self inflicted wounds would work either until it was said a million times without a Dem reply.

[intuition]

Seems, more and more, McCain has LOTS to hide!

[Democrab]

Valerie Plame has been disappearing from the press as well.

Since the idiot Judge John D. Bates dismissed her law suit against the administration, like all other Bush shenanigans, the press lets it go away. Like where's Brittany, dude?

Exposing her to snotty old Robert Novak was one of the most egregious acts ever projectile vomited from this bunch of hillbillies.

The proponents of torture and spying endangered the lives of covert agents because Joe Wilson didn't agree with their war lies. So they outed his wife like a tattletale on the playground.

I hope a democratic administration will re-open this investigation at some point, and punish those responsible; namely Rove, Armitage, Libby, Cheney and Bush, the fab five of federal feudalism.

The problem is, there's so much of the Bush mess to clean up it will probably take years to get around to.

[jamman]

proponents of torture and spying endangered the lives of covert agents
- Are you suggesting that Armitage was in league with the Bush admisistration?
The facts of the trial seem to dismiss all you believe.
1.)Plane drove into the CIA building everyday to her deskjob, thereby not fitting the definition
of 'Covert'.
2.) Armitage was not part of the Bush Cabal.

[Wilburrr]

If Plame was not covert, why did the CIA refer the case to the Department of Justice?

[Democrab]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame

Here's some reference on her "covert" identity.

2. A. During the 2000 Presidential election campaign, he served as a foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush as part of a group led by Condoleezza Rice that called itself The Vulcans.
B. He was the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005.
Connect dot A to dot B and tell me again about the Bush "cabal."

[SamE]

xnay on alkingtay about epublicanray exsay tuffsay. It makes them cry. (grown ups use your pig latin traslator ring)

And John McCain doing bad stuff? But he was a war hero? He was shot down? Graduated second last in his class and still got a nice plane to get shot down in (more than once right?) I liked him better when he used to kid about it and say it was because he was a lousy pilot. His Admiral dad might not have liked the self deprication, but I thought it appropriate. And more endearing than his latest behavior.

[intuition]

The MSM/GOP consortium thinks themselves America's puppeteers!

[intuition]

The GOP paid her BIG to get lost!

[rfkactionfront]

Funny photo of John McCain in bed with his lobbyist "friends" here:

http://thumbsnap.com/v/u0QNfKq8.jpg

Original source of the photo here:

http://www.rfkactionfront.com/2008/03/john-and-vicki-and-charlie-and-rick.html

[WarrenPeace]

The one (and only) favorable comment I would make about HRC -- relative to Obama -- is that she would, by strong implication, bring up the Iseman disappearance. It would be in the industrial kitchen sink she would dump on flip-flopping John.

[Damianna]

Couldn't agree with y'all more but let's not forget that the Democratic campaign has their own "disappeared", light haired person (at least from the Clinton campaign): Bill. Where's Bill? We can be sure, if Hillary wins the presidency, he won't be so scarce.

[deke33]

But don't you find it strange that after denying a close physical relationship with Iseman, why should she be missing in action? After all if nothing untoward happened why should she sneak off into the night and not help a man who she has tried to get elected? Excuse the pun, it smells fishy to me.