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?
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Jay Rosen | Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
Why did the Times endorse McCain for the Republican nomination on Jan. 25, when it was clearly working on this story and had the basic facts in hand?
Sherman Yellen | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
This will probably remain more of a smudge than a stain on the McCain name, but it punches a hole in his egregious campaign as flag-bearer of Republican morality.
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain is fighting accusations tonight from the New York Times that he had an affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman. The Senator released a...
Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Within hours of the New York Times story going public, Vicki Iseman's bio was pulled from the web site of her firm, Alcade and Faye. We've captured a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
** MORE COVERAGE OF MCCAIN SCANDAL FALLOUT HERE ** On Wednesday night, an otherwise obscure telecommunications lobbyist by the name of Vicki Iseman w...
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics