Comments on: Timing, Sourcing Suggest GOP, Not Dems, Behind McCain ‘Smear Campaign’

By: nixnax

nixnax — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:52:24 +0000

***This has the smell of Karl Rove. Where is he by the way?
Comment by jimbo Feb. 22, 2008, 2:34 am *** Rove is now an adviser for McCain.

By: Sporty

Sporty — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:33:15 +0000

What the h… difference does it make anyway. If McCain is guilty of cheating on his wife or/and helping telecom and other lobbyist to gain the policies they wish into law, while claiming he is against this before he was for it.

Looks as if Clinton is fair gain for any and all BS, lies and propaganda the republicans and the news media likes to throw at them , but Republican Corruption, Greed, and Incompetence http://www.republicancorruption.com/ is a no-no for the American citizens to see or hear.

How about the continual miss spelling of Obama’s name to tie him with terrorist and after 8 years of our tax money used for the republicans intertainment for their propaganda of the Clintons. While at the same time Newt , Trent Lott and other republican were involved in sex misconduct on their wife. Then we have Larry Craig voting to impeach Bill Clinton calling him a naughty boy, and we know Larry Craig has no misconduct.

The BS and propaganda goes on and on,, While the democrats instead of calling the republicans what they are,, try to defend the republicans BS being exposed in the republican news media of calling a crook a crook.

After all the lies and BS the republicans have been involved in and thrown at democrats on a daily basis , I say to them “GO TO H…” NO MATTER WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ARTICLE.

By: jummy

jummy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:13:57 +0000

“Works for me”

I love seing this on the progressive blogs; from “true story” to “Rove smear operation” in two posts.

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By: deke33

deke33 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:07:59 +0000

It is possible that Keller of the Times has more data that has not yet been released. It is possible and I think more likely that the original article was purposely vague to elicit honest responses from McCain and Bennett. It is possible that after their nondenial denials the other shoe will drop. You know, perhaps intimate photos or recordings of McCain and his paramour. Or perhaps entering a hotel room at night and exiting in the AM. I wonder if McCain, if my suppositions are true would favor wiretaps and buggings. It would be good to do to McCain who felt no compunction about kissing the people responsible for spreading rumors about his POW activities in the South Carolina 2000 primary.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:34:15 +0000

This has the smell of Karl Rove. Where is he by the way?

By: jgmurphy

jgmurphy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:30:37 +0000

David Brooks ahs already “outed” the source of this scandalette, who is a guy named John Weaver, a rival of current campaign McCainiac honcho named Davis. The Weaver-Davis rivalry, according to Brooks, has been simmering for years and reached a full rolling boil recently. Weaver, as it were, has been forced out and in line with his “dark” personality, is strongly suspected of leaking this sordid tale to the NY Times.

Now whether the story itself is true, is open to question. One would assume that given the time frame (1999-2000) of the alleged peccadillo, when McCain was in a bitter contest with Bush for the GOP nomination, the Bush camp would have been all over this. With Rove on board, how could they possibly have missed it?

By: rigby

rigby — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:22:51 +0000

Another option is that the McCain camp whipped this out themselves. The Mac is so rickety and pigmentally challenged that when compared to Obama he looks rather prehistoric. By reviving an old dalliance with a woman in her thirties back in 2000, he makes himself more virile, without resorting to Bob Dole’s fix.

By: Pat Williams

Pat Williams — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:22:02 +0000

It would be far more likely that the Clinton camp would have impacted the bosses at the NYT than Obama’s. But it’s a better bet that Republican interests in having an alternate candidate are behind the eight year old story. Note that Rush Limbaugh’s animosity toward McCain seems to dovetail with this. It ain’t over yet, folks, for either party.

By: Lucius13

Lucius13 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:04:24 +0000

How can anybody say Obama is behind this when the source is a former top aide of John McCain’s? This story was put out by either McCian or the GOP to garner sympathy for this man that is way too old to be president.

By: Wisdom First

Wisdom First — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:04:10 +0000

First, I just want to say how hilariously “Me” writes. I love it. Really. Consider commenting in Buzzflash’s daily mailbag. I’d love to read more of your writing.

On a substantive note: The New York Times editorial people are right-wingers, and the “paper of record” has had quite a record of ignoring stories that critically need to be heard. So when an egghead on MSNBC and other propaganda cable noise stations note that The New York Times is considered to be liberal, I laugh and search for the barf bag at the same moment. So who’s behind this? Whoever controls The New York Times.