A Song to Help Find Vicki Iseman (Remember Her?)
It's been a month since the Times broke the McCain/Vicki Iseman scandal, and since then the press has gone after Iseman with all the veracity and acumen of a dead hippo. What gives?
It's been a month since the Times broke the McCain/Vicki Iseman scandal, and since then the press has gone after Iseman with all the veracity and acumen of a dead hippo. What gives?
Chris Kelly | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Spitzer's hooker has a song and we still haven't even heard McCain's lobbyist speak. How the hell did someone named Vicki Iseman become the only American since 9/11 entitled to privacy?
David Wallechinsky | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Rather than the Vicki Iseman story hurting McCain, it actually helped him in vital ways.
Chris Kelly | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
What happened to the missing blonde woman in John McCain's lobbying scandal? It's been twelve days. Where on Earth is Vicki Iseman?
Sean Carman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Kristol's argument on why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin ("Flag-gate!") is just so unbelievably, insidiously stupid: The man is a 50-year-old fifth grader.
Ari Melber | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media
Some top journalists say that newspapers should just end endorsements altogether.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
The New York Times story has the potential to echo through this most crucial part of McCain's winning coalition, with evidence of government corruption and a rejection of "family values."
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to t...
New York Times | Clark Hoyt | Posted 02.23.2008 | Media
BILL KELLER, the executive editor of The Times, said the article about John McCain that appeared in Thursday's paper was about a man nearly felled by ...
AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — A New York Times story examining John McCain's relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago has thrust the newspaper itself in...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
With the Republicans, as we all know, it's not the sex that gets them off but the money and the power.
Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Iseman Client Contradicts McCain Campaign On Meetings: The Washington Post reports: Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson today contradicted statements fro...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media
The spotlight should instead be on McCain and his confirmed relationship, 10 years ago, with another prominent lobbyist -- Rupert Murdoch!
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
Beleagured GOP candidate John McCain's choice for personal lawyer in the emerging favors-for-lobbyist scandal, Bob Bennett, has a long record of defe...
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
On occasion, Hillary can do sincerity. Obama is sincere. And that's what people are responding to.
Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
It is clear that at least two people very high up in the McCain universe have confirmed to both the Times and Post that they had a direct intervention with McCain over Iseman.
Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Democrats Debate In Texas Tonight in Austin, Texas, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will go head-to-head in their penultimate debate before the March...
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Gennifer Flowers came out today to remind everyone of her legacy in the pantheon of political scandals. She told the television show "Extra" that if ...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
If McCain is lying about any aspect of this story, he will have doubly undermined his already shaky claims to be a politician of honor.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
I do not know if John and Cindy McCain had an agreement that allows for outside romance under certain circumstances, but I do know that's not my business.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
John McCain's daughter Meghan wrote on her blog McCain Blogette a few hours after The New York Times released the report suggesting her father's infid...
Ari Melber | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The G.O.P. elites aren't mad that McCain did any of thoee things. They're upset that the media is covering it.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Many are unaware that McCain has surrounded himself with more lobbyists than Jack Abramoff on a golf outing. Vicki Iseman, and his actions on behalf of her clients, is only the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
Chris Kelly | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
It's all so target rich with opportunities for portentous symbolism and cheap wordplay. And with Norman Mailer too dead to enjoy it, too.
Marc Cooper | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The Republican Right is already howling over the bombshell dropped by The New York Times on John McCain, the GOP's all-but-official nominee. But they've got it backwards.
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Max and the Marginalized | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics