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Funny, how the same news media that uncritically and unquestioningly pass along John McCain's lies as if they were truth (not to mention racist-originated attacks on McCain's Democratic opponent, Barack Obama) give far less coverage to a man who speaks the truth about Senator McCain (h/t dday):
Q: So there is big news about John McCain -- the story that is in the New York Times, raising questions about his relationship with a lobbyist. This is a story the McCain people are saying is unfair and untrue. What do you think?
Dean: I have no idea whether the affair story is true or not, and I don't care. What I do care about is John McCain -- and this has been well-documented -- is talking all the time about being a reformer and a maverick, and in fact, he has taken thousands of dollars from corporations, ridden on their corporate jets, and then turned around and tried to do favors for them and get projects approved. He has tons of lobbyists on his staff. This is a guy who is very close to the lobbyist community, a guy who has been documented again and again by taking contributions and then doing favors for it. This is not a guy who is a reformer. This is a guy who has been in Washington for 25 years and wants to give us four more years of the same, and I don't think we need that.
In the immortal words of Buh-Buh Ray Dudley: "D-Von! Get-- the table!"
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Hey Phoenix Woman!
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scary now … can’t have people speaking the truth … esp’ly about that crazy maverick!
Good morning, PW! I’m having a “duh” moment here, or maybe it’s just a senior moment. Who/what does that refer to?
yeah, thanks for asking Marion.
i was too embarrassed.
McCain’s spokesman/lobbyist had already denied this smear. End of story, lieberals!
morning pw
maverdick indeed
We can always count on the good doctor.
The best thing about Howard Dean is that he always had hit it right using the plain truth….
We need to keep this alive here on the blogs so that the poor tired MSM will finally do their job…
There’s not too much that embarrasses me any more!
The maverick has been branded!
BTW- Bu’ush’s latest Code Brown drool:
“When Congress reconvenes on Monday, members of the House have a choice to make: They can empower the trial bar, or they can empower the
secrecy of my lawbreakingintelligence community,” Bush said in his Saturday radio address. “They can help class-action trial lawyers sue for billions of dollars, or they can help our intelligence officials protectthe secrecy of my lawbreakingmillions ofcrony corporate dollarslives.”Uh, are we all dead yet?
Marcy is all over the McCain stuff with her usual bucket of Clorox, btw.
lol
no, me neither, but i HATE appearing stupid! especially here.
lol.
Look McCain’s lobbyists are honorable men so let’s just ignore the lobbying that is going on in the bus. Next week we find out that they are patriotic also.
LOL!
GOOOOOD UN!
The real story on Mr. McCain is that he is a failed con-man. While purporting to be repulsed by K-Street, lobbyists are running his campaign. I rest my case regarding dismissing McCain out of hand as a liar and a hypocrite and a Bush stooge.
Mr. McCain, you are damn near history.
Google is my friend. I just looked up buh-buh ray dudley and discovered that he’s a wrestler.
lol :) ty. Need to ask Darkblack to make an image.
Don’t feel bad, Marion. You weren’t alone. I sorta read this:
Team 3D (Wrestling)
which mentions the quote, but I’m still not sure I understand.
What’s fun so far is the denial of the Wingers to say anything of depth to the actual charges…except to deny there was an affair and to say Mac is a real stand-up guy, a paragon of ethics. And then, attack the Times and the rest of the “liberal media”. That seems to be their entire game plan: deny everything and go on the attack against the messenger. Hey, it worked for Bush for, um, seven years?
Good luck with that, guys. The Teflon’s finally rubbed off and the substance is sticking to the pan. Let alone hitting the fan.
OK
i got it.
is WWE wrestling, DVon is the bro of Dudley, and it means “get the table, to slam him through”.
it’s related to being pwn3d.
see here
I just googled again and all I could find out was that’s his favorite quote. We definitely need PW’s help on this.
Oh yes John McCain. We’re making progress in Iraq all right. The best that can be said about you and your relationship with George W. Bush is that you are a fool.
AP - Rockets or mortars hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone early Saturday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months.
Thanks siri!
(just my opinion, but no one looks stupid for not getting a pop culture ref, esp’ly one from the dim dark past ;)
What’s up with security at Obama’s rallies being cut back? I saw over at AmericaBlog a list sent in by commentors that the lapse was more than just Dallas!
my sig ot here has a neanderthal tiny spot in him, he watches wrestling and spained it to me.
all that DUMB just came of use! who’da thunk?
Hopefully we hear more from Dean.
it’s rampant.
I found it interesting on Tweetie the other day, when all of the bobbleheads (Tucker among them) clucked on about how “nobody cares about whether McCain” was screwing Iseman.
EGGZACKLY! I am tabula rasa about bunches of recent “culture,” and as for wrestling… Thanks, by the way, to all the folks who scrounged around and found out about the Dudleys.
like THIS!
It will be JFK-Nixon tv debate redux when Obama makes McCain sweat in their uopcoming television debates. Bye bye, Mr. McCain.
IAOIYAR
um, i’m bettin Cindy does. “back to the oxy” time in her house!
McCain is yesterdays news. Obama is tomorow’s hope.
Exactly. Recall, in contrast, the Clenis.
Secret Service defends security strategy at rally in Reunion Arena
from Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/n.....90522.html
It is a damned if you do and damned if you don’t and throw in the it is scary with our knowledge of the past and how freaky some wingnuts are…. and it came out in Dallas of all places…
Yesterday some ID10T called our local progressive radio going on and on about Senator Hussein, thankfully Jeff just shut him down and dropped the call.
I called and brought up the subject that in 1961 Obama’s Mama named her son with the middle name of a future Dic tator (which the USA created) in say 25-30 years in the future….. wow pretty special!
So the wingnuts want to penalize a person for their name….the ONE thing that none of us had any control over…but then… that is logic and reason and so liberal of me to think that way…
Have you noticed that you can almost always tell about someone’s political leanings on a story like this, simply by which part of it gets their attention?
In every single conversation I’ve had so far about this, everyone who does NOT support the Republican party emphasizes the problems with McCain and lobbyists, and his relationships with Iseman and others as related to political favors…while every single Republican supporter I’ve spoken with has focused on the affair part.
The article never accused McCain of having an affair with anyone (though it DID mention that his associates were concerned that the relationship might be romantic, and that in only a few sentences out of the entire article.) And yet, that’s the part that sets off the lizard brain response.
The moral majority is very much concerned with affairs.
And notice nobody THIS time is saying, “But CLINTON DID IT TOO!” *L*
AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s must-win states of Ohio and Texas are no cakewalk for her, largely because independents and crossover Republicans are welcome to vote in their Democratic primaries.
OT,
but I just saw this and signed it.
Telecom Petition
i know it’s about the bazillionth one out there, and I THINK i signed them all. If you didn’t, it’s probably a good idea.
Interesting. In 2004 I went to a Kerry rally at Thomas & Mack Arena here in Vegas. I could have walked right in with a rifle with a scope on it hidden under my jacket, and I subequently had a clear line of sight to the senator down on the stage. No one checked me for anything.
Scary.
Jeez I was just browsing around over at emprtywheel and Marcy has got McCain dead to rights eight ways to sunday.
This guy is not going to make to the convention. Between Paxson, Sinclair Broadcasting, Charlie Black, Iseman and Renzi he is really damaged goods.
It’s kind of sad, the cons are f*cked.
instant karma.
and there’s not a “sad” thing about it!
This story has nothing to do with SEX…unless of course you take into account that St.McBush’08™ is the DC lobbyists FAVORITE cheap whore……gang-bangs a speciality…no waiting.
What I meant was, it’s pathetic!
Same lack of security at Yearlykos in Chitown?
What I’ve seen is that the right wing has been very successful at making the NY Times the whole issue. Barely addressing the substance. You can’t do that without the help of the media.
They’re doing it with the Obama military story too. They find some little nub and key in on that. The whole point of the story disappears and the focus becomes something else entirely.
Once again…the repubs can’t succeed in doing that unless they get the media to go along.
As for Gov. Dean. Only the liberal blogosphere will hear his words.
And the bobbleheads on MSNBC are speaking of the Clinton campaign in the past tense.
so, at bush rallies, they throw people out for having anti-war bumper stickers on their cars, while at obama rallies, you could bring in weapons? guess, since the secret service guy said so, this must be according to plan …
it’s overdue, is what it is.
you have a great site there too, Sangemon.
GOOD ONE!
loved the open letter to Obama.
My lady tells me she thinks Howard Dean, Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama are in cahoots. She has a feeling that these three are co-conspirators in their attempts to put this nation back on the right track. As you might suspect, I agree with this with view.
He is if the FACTS about this slacker come out. The pukes are trying to deflect the NYT story to seem like a flawed sex story, and take the attention off his way too close relationship with K Street.
Mc is a fraud and he is ethically challenged and blind to who he is. If he gets real scrutiny he will be exposed as another sucker for and suck up to K Street.
That story has to be pounded again and again as Dr. Dean did.
Another stupid comment from our stupid Pres. Bush managed quite abit of tort-reform in TX going after those trial lawyers. For sometime I have thought, eg.lawyer jokes, that lawyers are one of the few groups left where one is allowed to insult, ridicule, impugn, without pushback. I’m beginning to think they also should be a protected class; I have a moral stance against ever laughing at or repeating a lawyer joke.
Leave it to Bush: he is probably lawyered up to his s** for brains top of his head. Ooops, I should not have gotten started. To compare a fair legal action in the hands of trial lawyers to his illegal do whatever he wants (no wonder he doesn’t like them; they stand for law) makes me ill.
I feel like I don’t get to hear enough from Howard Dean since he became chair. It’s good to see that the Doctor is indeed in.
Thanks!
It’s something my dad and I started doing together a couple of years ago. He just turned 89 and he’s amazing.
i agree. wonder why we haven’t heard from him more.
how wonderful to do something like that with your dad!
and GOOD FOR HIM!
still goin’ at 89!
what a blessing!
If the MSM doesn’t report it…. did it really happen?
Dean is another person the MSM marginalize just like Edwards.
But “unindicted” Kiddo, “unindicted” *g*
John McCain. There is a growing feeling in cities and in the hinterlands that you’ve been a naughty little boy. A impression that you are letting lobbyists run your campaign. And that you are denying the obvious. Not good.
far more than Edwards I suspect.
And I think of them as the corporate media and NOT as mainstream.
Reading Marcy’s site It looks to me like the facts are the facts and McCain is a crook. Now it’s our job in the Netroots to make sure that those facts are brought to light, This is something that we have shown we can do, just ask Abu Gonzalez.
Good morning, everyone!
Sorry I’m late — was up late, took what I thought would be a short cat nap this morning and the next thing I knew it was 11:00!
GOOOOD for you PW!
AND thanks for this post.
gave us a run there for a minute.
hehe
Morning PW!
Everyone wants to know what the last line means.
Much of the current McCain scandal results from a simple misunderstanding about language. Take “honor” for example. Iseman for her part honored McCain to the great benefit of her clients. McCain in turn honored Iseman. In fact, he honored her as often as he could. And taxpayers? They got honored too. See. It’s so much easier to understand once you know how language is being used.
did you guys see Bob Geiger is back? he’s over at The Agonist now, WITH Cliff Schecter!
kewl.
Hey PW -
great post!
(and thanks to siri and Marion and Bilbo: I’m clueless on pop culture references)
Hugh - you are reminding me, ol’ livestock owner that I am, of the whole issue of the meaning of “service”.
Sang, i got it, at post 22.
Thanks, Hugh. Think I understand now.
Have I got it right?
It’s like the Piranha Brothers sketch in Monty Python:
Except that, unlike Stig O’Tracy, McCain keeps denying everything even when the evidence is there for all to see.
Want to hitch a ride with McCain or Obama? The difference between riding with McCain and the esteemed Senator from Illinois, is that John will be driving a Model-T. Senator Obama will piloting a Corvette.
Yes…. this is the same as the Plame outing, Scooter Trial and Gonzales.
The local Phoenix media has moved on….. nothing to see here…. After all the upstanding Rep Shadegg told all of AZ that we should take the word of the Senator over some newspaper…. (insert liberal, eastcoast, NYC, dude(not surfer type))
When I hear it here…. when the AZ Republic(ian) will print it…. THEN…
So what does that say about Hillary’s comment at the end of the debate about what an HONOR it was to be there?
Heheheheh!
A devastating clobbering of Harold Ford and the DLC agenda now up at Kos http://www.dailykos.com/. What was he thinking??
Hillary was using “honor” as a noun, rathern than….ahem, a verb.
O don’t know; Obama is awfully cute.
Eeeeeeek! Electoral Kryptonite!
Even funnier: Dangerstein’s in the mix! (Read all the way to the bottom!)
I wonder if McCrazy woke up today and put his shoes on the right feet.
Dday over at Hullabaloo is on this too:
Spiny Norman!
(wot’s all this then about not wanting me meds?)
This story, which is in its embryonic stages, fits a familiar pattern of denials from Republicans that don’t even touch the real substance of the story. Keating 5 was an early symptom and Dr. Dean recognizes it. Now McCain is beyond biopsy, he’s under exploratory lap.
What will be seen are lobby metastases. The MSM are their usual superficial selves, with Norah O’Donnell and Timmeh Russert showing the moron side of themselves. From Ditzbrain Noron: “McCain and the Conservatives have turned this story to their advantage.” The hell they have. The lobbying revelations have just begun.
Many other shoes have begun dropping and you can expect Marcy to continue pointing them out.
Christy linked Salon’s Joe Conason’s McCain: Reformer or Phony
always worth reading. The NYT is just beginning, and what I’m enjoying about this is the fools like Rush Limpjaw that have launched into Times bashing.
The McCain Article: Ask the NYT Newsroom
Files and McCain Letter Show Effort to Keep Loophole
A Hole in McCain Defense by Michael Isikoff alluding to a deposition done by Dan Abrams’ father, Floyd Abrams the First Amendment expert.
It will be disappointing if the rest of the print media go the way of Norah’s comment, but the chances of that happening are slim and none.
Finally…. for a couple of years I have brought up an 2006 article where it noted that AZ had garnered around 91 BILLION of defense contracts since 2001… THAT our two Senators really brought home the bacon…(all from memory)
The similarity I see in Senator Clinton and Senator Obama is that both these honorable people are extremely intelligent. Perhaps equally so. The difference I perceive is that one of these good Democrats is wise. The other… perhaps not so much.
New book just released by Media Matters David Brock
Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
I find the DLC intensely to my disliking. Hope you are having a great Saturday. Thanks for the link.
I wonder if it has much about Cindy. She may be thinking twice today about her observation that he wouldn’t do anything to hurt the family. She may believe it. She was very young when she married the guy, so she may be just waking up. Esp. if she has taken care of her addiction problem. She may not think all these Sr. moments are so great when they are so public and embarassing.
Danger Stein? Who could have anticipated . . .
Dean has the right instincts on this issue. Attack McBush night and day for bein in the hands of lobbyists—-Of course if you could get some guys who served with him in the navy to make a commercial about what a shitty commanding officer he was- well that would be even MORE impactful.
funny, so funny, why, I can’t stop laughing
man, my head is gonna explode I can’t stop laughing so much
I was rather disappointed to see Sen. Clinton frontpaging Sen. Obama’s ‘ties’ to the Weather Underground on her website.
You’d think after being labeled a DFH for years would have prevented her from going down that road.
I hope she’s getting some good oppo research checks from the GOP.
-G
or a transcript of a conversation with a lobbyist.
Everyday people who have had contact with Cindy McBush have only one adjective to use in a phrase that goes like this…..”what a b*tch” …. hear it from workers at Champus provider (military insurance) and others areas…. they shutter ….. so they might be quite a pair…
If McCain had just had another affair (and we’ll find out if he had one with Vicki), there wouldn’t be near the significance as there is that his relationship with her that is a metaphor for the way he has been in bed with lobbyists for years.
Maybe Cindy McCain is remembering the affair he had with her that helped finish his first marriage with Carol.
While Michelle Obama was working on her senior thesis Cindy McCain was working on a married man.
-G
This guy is not going to make to the convention. Between Paxson, Sinclair Broadcasting, Charlie Black, Iseman and Renzi he is really damaged goods.
Republican voters do not care about corruption within the Republican Party.
so me and my friend have a bet on whether or not there are going to be elections;
I say in the past 232 years we have had 58 elections give or take one
that means the odds are about better then 58 to one that we are going to have elections this cycle as well
so I am taking 25 to one that elections are suspended, this is a good deal for anyone that wants to take the bet
now, if this type of bet becomes known around the internet, it innoculates us from elections being suspended
I’m just saying, start taking the bet, take the odds and we’re good to go
Blast from the past
No, but they do see when a candidate is completely and utterly unelectable.
And they don’t particularly like being lied to.
I agree, he’s not going to make it to through the primaries
so who replaces him?
mutt?
huck?
ghoul?
chuck noris?
Let me check back tomorrow after hearing Scott Ritter tonight discuss his book Target: Iran and his latest trip to the middle east….
The GOP has set the stage for a terrorist attack occurrence on US proper to be sufficiently blamed on Pelosi, Hoyer and Reid.
-G
I can’t agree with you there peterr, they sort of expect their candidates to be lying to them
what I am saying is we can innoculate ourselves from this
if we start taking bets, they will understand we will know they did it and we will not tolerate it
we have to do something to get it out of their tiny little brains, don’t forget, the closer they are to loosing their seat in power, the more brazen they become
Maybe quite a pair; who knows? Or, maybe she won’t want to take much grief from him either. Yet, there are lots of names of women who stay, Jackie, Lady Bird, Mamie, Eleanor, Barbara, I guess. Mrs. Johnson said something like she could not have had a more exciting life. I am sure it is hard to imagine living in the spotlight with both the excitement/perks and the scrutiny. Cindy does not look very comfortable to me, whether b/c of him, the media; I guess we will see.