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John is right. Something is fishy here:
A female telecommunications lobbyist who became part of an explosive story early this year about John McCain has broken months of silence to deny the main subtext of the account — that she was suspected of being romantically involved with the Republican presidential candidate. "I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain," Vicky Iseman told the National Journal magazine.
This story has been dead for a long time. Why revive it? Vicki Iseman had no need to clear her name, and even if she did, she could certainly wait 19 days to sit down with a reporters. There are only two possible explanations:
1. We are looking at perhaps one of the stupidest political moves in history. Regardless of whether or not John McCain had an affair with Iseman, the story smells bad. He did favors for a telecom lobbyists clients and got donations in return. Not exactly the story any Republican would want coming out 19 days out. And if the story was solely Vicki Iseman’s doing, does she think appearing in the press now will help her get clients?
2. There is a bigger story coming and the McCain campaign wants to do some inoculation.
Right now I believe its the former, but I’ll grab the popcorn anyway.
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Well, the timing is certainly odd.
1) It could be a pre-emptive shot about something else actually suggesting there WAS an affair.
2) Perhaps it is designed to bring into public consciousness a prior accusation…because a new one that relates to McCains sexual advances on another woman is about to break. By bringing up Iseman they can point to her and say “It’s just another accusation by the liberal media”.
3) Something new about McCain’s relationship with Paxson is going to come out suggesting an even greater exchange of financial benefits in exchange for even greater pressure on the FCC than previously acknowledged. This was actually the deep context of the original story that got lost in the histrionics of the “supposed affair”. By making it about a non-existent sexual relationship, rather than McCain’s simply ego-needs to be surrounded by younger attractive Barbie Dolls. For that he was willing to destroy the fundamentals of non-commercial educational broadcasting….allowing religious prosleytization for cash.
Although Paxson eventually got cold-feet after the FCC insisted that much of their programming be non-religious in nature…eventually the Pittsburgh station was made into a commercialised Shopping Network outlet for much of the day.
3 would be interesting, but Iseman coming out doesn’t inoculate him.
wow! this is a win for us no matter what. unfreakinbelievable