Compared to the Rev. Wright issue (among many other questionable focuses by the AmeriKan MSM), the coverage of McCain's associations seem muted, don't they?
I'm sure the Boston Globe and New York Times' endorsement of McCain for GOP nominee has nothing to do with it, right, readers?
Sigh!
"McCain's lobbyist ties pose threat to reformer image"
"by Liz Sidoti, Associated Press | May 20, 2008
WASHINGTON - John McCain's latest campaign angst, this time over his aides' ties to lobbyists, is putting the Republican in conflict with his carefully honed, decades-old reformer image. It's also giving Democratic rival Barack Obama an opening to paint him as nothing more than a creature of Washington....
McCain is trying to stem the woes from his lobbyist links, putting in place new conflict-of- interest guidelines that triggered the departures of several campaign staffers due to their lobbying ties, including some to foreign governments....
[McCain] has tried to straddle two worlds, being both a four-term senator known as a fighter of special interests and a candidate whose campaign has employed people with long records of lobbying....
For months, Democrats have hammered McCain on that very issue, noting that campaign manager Rick Davis and senior adviser Charlie Black have spent decades lobbying in Washington. Both have left their companies but that hasn't stopped the criticism.
Almost sounds like the reporter is sympathetic to the McCain cause, doesn't it?
Those carping DemocraPs!!!!
This month, the lobbying flap exploded with the disclosure that two McCain advisers worked for DCI Group, a consulting firm hired to improve the image of Burma's military junta. The two resigned and the new ethics policy followed.
And the MSM rushed right by it, too!!! I didn't see it on Wolf's show.
Of course, I'm not watching, but....
:-)
Then, McCain fired an energy policy adviser, who also was a lobbyist representing energy companies, and asked another consultant to resign from the campaign's Virginia leadership team given involvement in an online outfit that criticized McCain's Democratic rivals.
The departures continued over the weekend with the resignation of former Texas Representative Thomas G. Loeffler, a part-time campaign volunteer serving as McCain's national finance co-chairman. Loeffler's lobbying clients include the parent company of a European plane manufacturer. His firm also has lobbied for other foreign interests and foreign governments, reportedly including Saudi Arabia.
WTF?!? They cleaned that up quite a bit, huh?
The lobbying was AFTER 9/11!!
How come the MSM didn't make a point of mentioning that?
All that has given Democrats fodder to attack McCain, and they have been relentless."
Awwwwww, poor McCain!
Yeah, this reporter definitely had a pro-McCain bias!!!
Nothing about McCain's inane attacks on Obama and his "experience" and judgment," huh?
