Former Paxson Exec Denies McCain Meeting
WASHINGTON — A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to t...
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 ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
Given the week he's just had, you have to figure John McCain is looking for a story -- any story -- to come along and take the media spotlight off him. And what better distraction than America's favorite celebrity engorge-athon, the Academy Awards?
Steve Young | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics
"We understood that he [McCain] did not speak directly with him [Vicki Iseman Client]. Now it appears he did speak to him. What is the difference?... ...
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!
Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
McCain vehemently defended the lobbyist's professionalism, telling reporters, "Vicki is an energetic and passionate woman who has bent over backwards to please me."
Lynn Grossman | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media
Thanks to the need to supply content to what seems like two million cable stations, the blather is everywhere and all the time.
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...
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.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
On occasion, Hillary can do sincerity. Obama is sincere. And that's what people are responding to.
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
It's understandable, if unfortunate, that the angle that most appeals to TV news talking heads -- would-be journalists, after all -- is the journalistic angle.
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.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Tucker Carlson is convinced that this New York Times story making waves on the campaign trail has no legs. On MSNBC, anchor Norah O'Donnell asks Tuck...
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.
Mary Mapes | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The fact that McCain's picture is suddenly plastered all over the place next to photos of a pretty lobbyist sure isn't going to help him with the people he needs most, the hardcore Huckabee fans.
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...
The New Republic | Gabriel Sherman | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Last night, around dinnertime, The New York Times posted on its website a 3,000-word investigation detailing Senator John McCain's connections to a te...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media
The Times' ombudsman -- or anyone else -- would do well to address the issue and put it to rest. Is the paper's editorial board routinely -- or ever -- briefed on pending stories?
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.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
McCain presented the Democrats with a powerful soundbite when he told reporters today that he has many friends who are Washington lobbyists.
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AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics