McCain paying Ron Brownstein (LATimes Political Reporter)household

hughhewitt.com ^ | 31 May 2005 | Hugh Hewitt

[anita]

How in the world are we supposed to believe that employment by a significant Washington player and probable presidential candidate of a spouse of a reporter who covers Washington players and probable presidential candidates won't affect Brownstein's judgments?

Would a paper allow the wife of an Enron executive to continue reporting on the Enron scandal? Would the son of an NBA owner be allowed to cover his father's franchise? Would a sister be assigned to review a major motion picture in which her sibling had a supporting role?

Brownstein gets credit for transparency in telling the audience so we can correct for the fact, but the fact that he tells us he's got it covered is an alarm sounding that he really doesn't understand his own limits.

At a minimum, the Times should be prepared to add at the bottom of every story Browstein writes about McCain or issues or people that could affect McCain's presidential run the fact of the conflict.

Not a conflict? Sorry, but John McCain is in a very real way paying not Brownstein's wife but the Brownstein household. McCain's star rises, then Brownstein's does at well.

[anita]

Hugh asks all the correct questions. Brownstein should be allotted a different job other than to cover Washington.

[ken5050]

Thanks..didn't know about this..BTW..would you have alink to the disclosure announcement by Brownstein..?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The MSM will all they can to build up McCain so they can rip him apart when the Hildabeast steps into the "squared circle".

[meandog]

More John McCain bashing to come on this post Yet:

* Sen. McCain campaigned for the president.
* Sen. McCain made keynoted the GOP convention endorsing the president.
* Sen. McCain has maintained a respectable conservative voting record.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind John Bolton, the president's U.N. Ambassador choice.
* Sen. McCain is solidly behind the Global War on Terror...including more troops in Iraq.

Some FReepers seem so full of hate about (IMHO) a decent man who served his country with honor and it is fueled primarily by "chickenhawks" such as oxycontin addicted Rush Limbaugh who wouldn't know a uniform from his golf attire!

[RexBeach]

That's one heckuva lead sentence. A mite convoluted, don't you think? Good message, Hugh, but the grammar needs work.

[dirtboy]

Sen. McCain has maintained a respectable conservative voting record.

Such as sponsoring McCain-Feingold? Yeah, sure, meandog.

[MahaMarty]

Are you campaigning for the McCain-Feingold Act as the greatest piece of conservative legislation in the history of our Republic? Because if you are, you must be campaigning it like a moderate: very liberally.

[RexBeach]

Hi. I think many Freepers no longer trust Sen. McCain. They don't hate him. If they do, they shouldn't. It's not good form.

Thanks for your thoughts, though.

[DManA]

Yup that's me. Lots more like me too. Get over any hopes your guy's going anywhere in 2008.

Some FReepers seem so full of hate about (IMHO) a decent man who served his country with honor and it is fueled primarily by "chickenhawks" such as oxycontin addicted Rush Limbaugh who wouldn't know a uniform from his golf attire!

[Old Professer]

You read it.

[wyattearp]

How in the world are we supposed to believe that employment by a significant Washington player and probable presidential candidate of a spouse of a reporter who covers Washington players and probable presidential candidates won't affect Brownstein's judgments?

Wow. Now that's a sentence. I don't know what it means, but it certainly is a sentence.

[LS]

Ron Brownnose?

[wyattearp]

Hi. I think many Freepers no longer trust never trusted Sen. McCain. They don't hate can't stand him. If they do can, they shouldn't. It's not good form.

There, fixed it. ;-)

[DManA]

Hugh would probably like to have another shot at that one. But hey, blogs aren't white papers.

[Bar-Face]

"Some FReepers seem so full of hate about (IMHO) a decent man who served his country with honor and it is fueled primarily by "chickenhawks" such as oxycontin addicted Rush Limbaugh who wouldn't know a uniform from his golf attire!"

Hey Meandog, I take offense to be called a "chicken hawk. I will match my service record with anyones.
With that said, I did not spend time in a North Vietnam prison. But I also did not take a bribe from Charles Keating.
You like most of the liberals seem to be saying that a politician's service record trumps any and everything he does subsequently. Horsefeathers!
In addition what has Limbaugh's not serving in the military have to do with it. I owuld match his "citizen" record with, oh say Ted Kennedy's any day of the week.

[MahaMarty]

No, when it comes to McCain, the MSM stoped using the rear orfice.

[RexBeach]

It wasn't easy.

[DCPatriot]

I'm not a McCain groupie by any stretch, but I tend to agree with you.

He has demonstrated that he is a true republican, IMO. Leave the guy alone.

[RexBeach]

I agree. Perhaps Hugh was standing on his head when he wrote it?

[OldFriend]

McCain was caught and had to apoloyze for making a campaign commercial at Arlington National Cemetary.

Hero, NO

Integrity, NO

BACKSTABBER, YES

GLOBAL WARMING SUPPORTER, YES.

IMHO, the man is not to be trusted.