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Seems Newsweek caught John McCain in a contradiction:
Just hours after the Times’s story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staffâ€â€and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. “No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC,” the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. “I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,” McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. “He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.”
As Red Wind points out, this isn’t about the sex, it’s about the corruption. While the New York Times innuendo-filled reporting may have kick-started this story, sex was just the accelerant. What’s really going to burn best is all the juicy details of McCain’s close connections with corporate interests.
Any ideas where this thing goes next?
How about it goes in the same direction that Rick Renzi is going: http://democrats.org/a/2008/02/rep_renzi_r-az.php
A picture is worth a thousand straight-talkin’ words, ain’t it?