[HapaxLegamenon]

Doesn't look good.

[mewzilla]

This is rich coming from Spikey Isikoff...

[Petronski]

To hell with Michael Isikoff.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

McCain WAS at the party at Canseco’s house?

[padre35]

Isikoff? Wasn’t that the Koran in the Toilet in Gitmo writer?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, it looks like McCain has gone and let himself get caught in a bald face lie on live national television.

The best thing he could do now is gracefully exit the presidential race and turn all his delegates over to Duncan Hunter, who will go on to trash Obama during the general election... :)

[lady lawyer]

So, five years later he didn’t remember a particular conversation. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. What he has said is that he wrote a letter asking an agency to please make a decision on a matter that had been pending for twice as long as it usually took matters to get through that agency. But he was careful to say that he was not asking them to decide in favor of Paxson. I just fail to see anything wrong with that. And the fact that they keep trying to make this into something is beyond belief.

[AuntB]

McCain draws scrutiny over $1m loan to campaign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/johnmccain.barackobama

[snip]Feb. 22, 2008 - The Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a letter to McCain today that questions his ability to withdraw from the presidential public financing system – and avoid the spending limits that come with it. The FEC asked McCain to explain whether he used public funds as collateral for a $1m bank loan last month, a move that would commit him to a taxpayer-funded campaign.

The query is especially awkward on a day the senator is fighting allegations he had an affair with a lobbyist, and given that he has blasted Obama for appearing to hedge on his pledge to accept public financing for the general election. The likely Republican nominee accused Obama of “Washington doublespeak” yesterday, noting that both men agreed to take taxpayer funds and play by the rules that doing so entails.

[trumandogz]

Gov. Huckabee, please pick up the Red Courtesy Phone.

[MNJohnnie]

REALLY desperately reaching to find anything to keep the story alive.. Read what the article is actually claiming. The two statements do not contradict each other in any way shape or form. This is pathetic even by "they flushed a Koran at Gitmo" Newsweak standards. He said he was contacted by Paxson, not by the Lobbyist as the Times, and now Newsweak, claims.

No matter how much one may dislike McCain, this is just inexcusably sloppy "journalism"

Just hours after the Times's story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff—and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. "I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue," McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. "He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.

[NRG1973]

“”McCain’s sweeping denial may have hole””

OK, I’m convinced...now lets get Romney back on the ticket.

[ElkGroveDan]

It fits a pattern:

Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating.

[11th Commandment]

Doesn’t look good you say, it depends on what the meaning of is “is”. From the article, “I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,” hmmm a phone call is not a meeting. Believe me, if you ever been depoed, you answer the question and nothing else to get those blood sucking, bottom feeding fisher out of your face.

[ARCADIA]

I agree, what Freepers don't realize, is that McCain has been given a FREE PASS by the media - because they felt he stood up to the rightwing in the Republican party.

So they never really investigated him at all. Now, he's the frontrunner so he's getting the scrutiny any others would get.

McCain has committed countless flip-flops and has had throughout his career countless relationships and business deals which give the impression of impropriety.

[Froufrou]

I couldn’t open it, page expired. LL, this is just typical liberal rhetoric designed to time with the primaries. Nothing short of fantastic, yes, but very short of believable.

[BallyBill]

Fake but Accurate.

We heard it all mikey, now go away.

[rrrod]

is it 2012 yet?

[Proud2BeRight]

Thought for the day: Empty-suit and blank resume’ Obama won the landslide victory for the US Senate for Illinois due to a conveniently announced sex scandal involving the GOP candidate. How do you spell deja vu?

[org.whodat]

McCain's subsequent letters to the FCC—coming around the same time that Paxson's firm was flying the senator to campaign events aboard its corporate jet and contributing $20,000 to his campaign—

Sounds like a political kickback to me!

[isrul]

So is anyone surprised? Why do you think the MSM and the RATS wanted McCain for the dream candidate? Stuff, stuff and more stuff. Made up or true; makes no difference. It will keep coming. Support McCain or don’t. But this kind of stuff shouldn’t influence your decision, if you have a brain. This stuff is irrelevant as to what McCain is, for good or ill.

[Just mythoughts]

I can’t helped but be reminded that it was lord McCain that pulled together a gang of 14 to protect the Senate body in their neglect of advise and consent of Presidential nominees. Yet here McCain is allllll about using his particular power as oversight body demanding an act sooner rather than later for the good of lobbyists. What was that number recently cited by President Bush, of vacancies waiting for up or down vote by Senator McCain more respected body also known as the US Senate... 200????

It is a known and or a given one does reap what they sow.