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	<title><![CDATA[Defending McCain from Adultery, Corruption and The Times]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/defending-mccain-from-adu_b_87804.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Top Republicans are absolutely apoplectic over new reports that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/berman">John McCain</a> had an ethically inappropriate (possibly romantic) relationship with a lobbyist, accepted favors from corporations while criticizing the practice, and ran an Orwellian-branded soft money operation, "<a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/02/01/mccain_problems/">The Reform Institute</a>," to advance his career and political cronies while railing against soft money. </p>

<p>But the G.O.P. elites aren't mad that McCain did any of those things. They're upset that the media is covering it. In fact, the rage is so...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:48:00-04:00</date_published>
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