WaPo: Paxson Contradicts McCain Campaign on Meetings

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202634.html?hpid=topnews



Broadcaster Says He Met with Senator Several Weeks Before Letters to FCC Were Sent

By James V. Grimaldi and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 22, 2008; 6:58 PM

Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson today contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.

Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson's quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.

Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, attended the meeting in McCain's office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post today. "The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."

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A statement issued by the McCain campaign yesterday said that the senator had not met with Paxson or Iseman on the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde and Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC regarding this proceeding," the statement said.

McCain attorney Robert Bennett played down the contradiction between the campaign's written answer and Paxson's recollection....

[rzemanfl]

1. This jibes with McCain's sworn testimony. What a lying sack

McCain is. I bet he was doing that woman. n/t

[islandmkl]

2. who would have ever thought you would hear this ....

"McCain attorney Robert Bennett played down the contradiction between the campaign's written answer and Paxson's recollection...."


contradiction does not indicate one of the parties is not telling the truth, it indicates that our recollections of the truth, while appearing to be opposite, are actually of indeterminate veracity, and therefore, can not be in dispute

[Beetwasher]

3. This is going to be a real test

of the media coverage this election. I won't hold my breath for them to cover this in the same manner as they would if this were a Dem though.

[BurtWorm]

4. You can already sense that they want to ease up.

A lot of the coverage so far has been about the New York Times' reporting on this. The journosheep are waiting to see what the rest of the herd is going to do.