McCain slams New York Times
source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24518842-12377,00.html
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The paper's profile of Cindy McCain delves into the background of the millionaire beer heiress, married to the Republican Arizona senator for more than 30 years.
McCain's campaign fired back immediately, describing the profile as "gutter journalism at its worst'' and a "barrage of petty and personal attacks''.
The article noted the candidate's spouse had a role in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal, she "endured several miscarriages alone'' while her husband worked in Washington, and she was "caught stealing drugs from her nonprofit organization to feed her addiction to painkillers''.
The article is a "black mark on the record of a paper that was once widely respected, but is now little more than a propaganda organ for the Democratic party,'' McCain's campaign said.
"The New York Times has stooped lower than this campaign ever imagined possible in an attempt to discredit a woman whose only apparent sin is being married to the man that would oppose that paper's preferred candidate, (Democrat) Barack Obama.''
Cindy McCain, 54, is the chairwoman of Hensley & Company, Arizona's foremost beer distribution company worth an estimated tens of millions of dollars.
In a confession to Newsweek magazine she admitted drug use in the wake of the Keating scandal that rocked Washington in the late 1980s, in which she was the sole Senate spouse to be implicated.
"The pills made me feel euphoric and free,'' she wrote in an essay.
Cindy McCain has been drafted into her husband's campaign in recent weeks and was due to tour Pennsylvania by bus this weekend in a bid to stem McCain's slide in the polls against his Democratic rival.
Meanwhile Obama's campaign accused Republicans of using a false crusade against voter fraud to suppress legitimate votes.
The Obama campaign's top lawyer, Bob Bauer, accused Republicans yesterday of recklessly "plotting'' to suppress legitimate votes and to "sow confusion and harass voters and complicate the process for millions of Americans''.
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Matericia
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Her apparent sins are on the top ten in God's book. Adultery (conducted an affair with McCain while he was still married to his disabled first wife), stealing (drugs from a charity for children), bearing false witness (Keating scandal), having McCain as her god instead of God.
- 3 years ago
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Matericia
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LILMAMAINGA
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I applaud the New York Times for printing the facts, whether good or bad. They have had articles about both candidates during the election process, some good and some bad on both sides. If it is the facts, let them print it without judgment. That is what they are in business for. To make the public aware of their findings and let us all choose freely based on our interpertations of what we see or read. I watch a lot of T.V. court and I have heard all of the Judges say at one time or other, if it is the truth, it isn't slander!
- 3 years ago
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LILMAMAINGA
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wierdobeardo
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Who's running for office here? Is it McCain or Cindy? But everyone knows when you're running for office your life becomes an open book for everyone for spin and add their own take to it. I'm pretty much sick of the election and I just want nov. 4th to come already.
- 3 years ago
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wierdobeardo
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sati
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the finger pointing is getting old, let them write!
- 3 years ago
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sati
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dabne
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At least conservatives can admit to the bias of Fox News. Come on people show your intelligence and admit that the Times is liberal propaganda.
The New York Times is so far left it might as well be Hawaii.
- 3 years ago
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dabne
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dabne:
nah, they're just willing to actually be journalists, rather than cnn's preference of simply being a conduit for the blather of either side or fauxs....insanity
- 3 years ago
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jh64487
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Dmitri_Molotov
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dabne:
It's not that the media is anti-McCain so much as it is that McCain is anti-media.
- 3 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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Coach McGuirk knows best.
- 3 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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Heh, funny how McCain is criticizing the New York Times for attacking his wife. He's the one who called her a c*nt.
- 3 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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PressCore
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These people in McSame's campaign are so childish.Their projection of their own faults onto others shows they are unable to accept reality. A good Newspaper is a proponent of the Free Press which IS the Democracy as Walter Chronkite said. So it must mirror what occurrs. It's a documentation of History, and the public record. So if you McSame propagandists can't grow up, why don't you go home, hide under your bed and suck your thumbs? It's not a sports game ,fools. This is the real World and the real world is a dangerous, chancy place to live in. Your obscenely ugly campaign of mendacity,rascism, slander, character assasination, hate rallies resembling lynch mobs inciting to riot are finaly achieving the response you wanted. It's called Karma. It means what goes around,comes around. So if you don't like people copying your own methods,don't advertise them. Even though the concept of social Justice is obviously alien to you Fascists it's allways what eventualy prevails.It's still one nation under God
no matter how much you turds want to remake America into the land of the scream and the home of the knave. - 3 years ago
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PressCore
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caseygane
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Cindy Mccain actually stole drugs from her won charity that were supposed to go to suffering Africans. I wonder who she's stealing them from now. Limbaugh?
- 3 years ago
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caseygane
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kennymotown
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John McCain the campaign too nowhere!
- 3 years ago
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kennymotown
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Found_Avenue
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No attacks, only facts.
I knew we could count on The Grey Lady. - 3 years ago
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Found_Avenue
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GRIPEABOUTSTRIPES
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If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen t darling. What a nasty web you have spawned. Facts hurt,and where i come from tell the truth and stand up and take your punishment. VOTE DEMOCRAT, VOTE OBAMA, VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE.
- 3 years ago
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GRIPEABOUTSTRIPES
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Mikeysfake1
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I saw you replied to a comment and I liked your reply. Keep your Coors. Good article but it just lacks any debate. Family doesn't quite count but in the same sense family is exactly what America is about so it should be considered when you look at a candidate. Am I the only one with a family ten times more embarassing then any one of the candidates. I still love em though and I wouldn't let them even try to get attacked by the media.
- 3 years ago
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Mikeysfake1
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DeliaTheArtist
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Holy shit I forgot all about the fact that Cindy is tied to Anheuser-Busch! Does that mean every time I drink Bud I'm supporting the McCain campaign? I better start tapping the Rockies!
Anyway, McCain is once again grasping for straws. He knows there's no way in hell he'll take NY so apparently he thinks he can bash the crap out of one of our newspapers. Another sad stop on the Campaign of Ignorance.
- 3 years ago
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DeliaTheArtist
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wierdobeardo
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DeliaTheArtist:
I never really liked budwieser all that much personally. It's not far from water.
Grolsch is the good stuff. It's almost like drinking wheat. It's a meal and a beer.
- 3 years ago
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wierdobeardo
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I read the arricle this morning in the New York Times. As with other articles on personalities of this kind, I found the article enlighten, informative and without bias. In fact, I believed that the article was sympathetic in favor of Mrs. McCain. I am surprised that McCain would even think that the article put his wife in a bad way. She is a human being with all the positives and negatives that humans possess. Although she was born into privilege is not a negative and the fact that she may have had diffficulties leading to use of BANNED SUBSTANCES OR MISUSE OF PAIN KILLERS IS NOT TERRIBLE. McCain should praise the NY Times for its coverage. However, as a right wing candidate for President, he can only attack the Times to gain favor with many of his supposed backers. I cannot wait to see the "aatacks" to come in the last two weeks plus of this all to lengthy campaign.
- 3 years ago
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jeff_j
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sati
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jeff_j:
McCain and friends probably didn't read the whole article ha =)
- 3 years ago
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sati
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khromadjo
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Public figures invite public scrutiny the moment they show their face.
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khromadjo
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intelligenceisacurse
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attack?
it is just facts folks.
get off your ridiculous republican horses. - 3 years ago
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intelligenceisacurse
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5thElement
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umm I don't think it was right for them to attack his wife. Thats pretty low. I wouldn't want anyone to attack Barak Obama's wife. That wouldn't be fair. I think this campaign has been very distastful throughout the entire thing anyways.
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5thElement
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neocongo
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I feel terrible about this. Terrible that the New York Times is the only paper with enough spine to lay down some equal time on the beer queen.
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neocongo
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RS57:
When was Michelle Obama attacked on a personal (not political) level?
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bibbitybobbity
