Times Has On-The-Record Confirmation That McCain Is Lying

[kpete]

McCain denies knowing anything about meeting between his staffer, John Weaver, and Ms. Iseman, although Weaver did tell top McCain aides in December


WaPo and Howard Kurtz

The Times has an on-the-record confirmation from John Weaver, McCain's former top strategist, regarding an aide to the senator warning Iseman at a Union Station meeting to stay away from the boss. Weaver e-mailed that he arranged the meeting after "a discussion among the campaign leadership" about her...

The McCain/Bennett strategy, of course, is to make the Times the issue. The senator's statement doesn't deny any of the specifics in the piece.

As for the political fallout, the issue should be the confirmable facts and what they say, or don't say, about McCain's run for the presidency. In Bill Clinton's case it turned out to be quite relevant, and he had sexual relations with that woman, and some others. In this case, we have two people who deny such a relationship.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022100800.html

[tekisui]

1. Keep it comin'

[Fleshdancer]

2. MSNBC is saying Weaver has just said he's not the source of this story

There's an unnamed source but Weaver said everything he told the Times was on record. I wonder who the unnamed source is?

[Hepburn]

3. Wait.....Weaver just stated he is NOT the source.

So...what is this email that the NYT cites?

[GodlessBiker]

5. He's not the anonymous source. Everything Weaver said was on the record.

[Mike Daniels]

14. Weaver also says that his conversation with lobbyist had nothing to do with a physical relationship

Former McCain aide speaks out on Times report

Posted: 10:30 AM ET
(CNN) — Former McCain political adviser John Weaver confirms to CNN that he did approach lobbyist Vicki Iseman about eight years ago, during McCain’s first presidential run, and told her she was threatening to undermine the heart of McCain’s campaign – that he is a reformer.

Weaver says he arranged the meeting with Iseman — first reported by the New York Times — out of concern that she was “telling people around town” she was getting access to, and had influence with, McCain that Weaver says she did not have.

But Weaver insists he never talked to or asked Iseman about any romantic relationship with McCain because “there was no reason to.”

“My concern wasn’t about anything John had done, it was about her comments it was about access she claimed to have had,” Weaver told CNN. “I had no reason to question her about anything that is implied in the New York Times story.”

[DCKit]

23. The sex angle is what got the story noticed.

It doesn't matter if it's true or not when what's important is whether McCain whored himself out to a lobbyist and her clients for political contributions, but if sex and infidelity are all the Rethuglicans can wrap their tiny minds around, then that's what we need to feed them.

Judging from comparisons of her client list and his donor list, it's not a stretch to say McCain is a true Republican, through and through - a complete and utter hypocrite to the core of his being who will do or say anything to get elected, talk out both sides of his mouth while playing the harmonica with his ass and sell his constituents twice over for thirty pieces of silver - Simultaneously.

If it's the sex angle that takes him out, so be it, but it's the less glamorous yet far sleazier deals he's made with corporate donors that should disqualify his ever running for public office again, especially in light of FISA and the ongoing threat to our Constitutional rights.

[Hepburn]

16. Thanks for the clarification....

...this was confusing when I first heard.

[L. Coyote]

4. Care was taken by NYT: Kurtz Carried McCain's Link to Lobbyist Rumor Last December

NEW YORK Howard Kurtz, the media reporter for The Washington Post, covered rumors about SEn. John McCain's link to a then-unnamed female lobbyist in a story last December 21.

The story burst in full bloom tonight with The New York Times carrying a prominent story on its Web site.

Here is an excerpt ......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2900473

[malaise]

22. The TImes was very smart

The story is the lobbying scandal but other than DUers, who would have paid attention without a little sex thrown in.
This story is not going away.

[Buzz Clik]

6. I hope we can keep the focus on McCain's unethical behavior and minimize the scandal discussions.

Having sex with someone who isn't your wife is interesting, but it is not relevant to one's qualifications for the presidency.

However, having a personal relationship of this nature with someone representing a business interest in your Congressional committee is highly relevant to McCain's presidential aspirations. THAT's the story!

[JohnnyLib2]

7. And I strongly agree with you.

[northzax]

11. it's one thing to have an affair

it's a whole other thing to use public office to further the career of anyone. The fact that mccain may, or may not, have been thinking with his little head when doing his job is what matters.

[blondeatlast]

19. It's the bank, not the boink. exactly. nt

[Xenotime]

8. Hopefully this will bring the McCain camp down and the pugs with them

[librechik]

9. "and some others" ???

Gee, sometimes the hatred of the Republicamn Party for certain individuals is a wonder to behold. They are out o kill theor own nominee. And By god, I think they will do it!

[frazzled]

10. Is this where Mitt Romney steps in and unsuspends his campaign?

He has a fair number of delegates. Can he mathematically catch up? Huckabee has held McCain at bay from clinching the number needed to win the nomination.

I'm probably dreaming, but it certainly would be an interesting scene of chaos. And ever since I saw Romney ascend the presidential podium at Poppy Bush's library, I swore that the establishment-backed candidate would be the candidate.

[SpiralHawk]

12. "I am PROUD to be perfect." - Mitty

[bunkerbuster1]

17. That'd be sooo sweet.

I want me some Mittens!

[UTUSN]

13. K&R #4 n/t

[Winterblues]

15. In Bill Clinton's case it turned out to be quite relevant,

Relevant to what. What the hell was Clinton's Blowjob relevant to? He wasn't running for office, he wasn't Lying us into some killing field somewhere. WTF was Clinton's sex life relevant too?

[Eurobabe]

18. McLame sure was blinking and smiling alot

Just like BUSH does when he lies.

[mcg]

21. His tone of voice oozed dishonesty. n/t

[stubtoe]

20. It's weird to see the media go after a Republican nominee with a sex scandal.

It makes one wonder what Machiavellian plot the backstory actually is.