NYT Does Hit Job on McCain.
As anyone who reads here regularly will know, I am not a fan of John McCain. However, I would like to express my sympathy to him for the dreadful hit job carried out in today's New York Times.A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
They don't even have the courage to go on the record and spew this shit. McCain and the woman have both denied that any affair took place and that's good enough for me, even though the New York Times have chosen to print this crap with no proof at all. It's innuendo and it's nasty.
I've written many times about the interest that US elections generate across the globe and I have said before how much I have been enjoying this particular election. But then shit like this happens and I suddenly feel soiled.
It reminds me of the bizzare claims made about Kerry during the last election. Surely most Americans are grown up enough to see this stuff as what it is?
And I know there is a possible link to ethics in this story, but I don't believe that's why the NYT have published this nonsense. They have done it to float the notion of an affair.
Here in Britain you really wouldn't get away with this sort of tosh. Here politicians have to debate the issues and - yes - they spin and add their own gloss and do all the usual nonsense that one expects from politicians worldwide, but rarely would you be allowed to impugn a candidate's character in a way that appears almost routine in American elections.
McCain's campaign have issued a statement:"Americans are sick and tired of this kind of gutter politics, and there is nothing in this story to suggest that John McCain has ever violated the principles that have guided his career."
I really hope they stick to that when the two eventual candidates go head to head.
So I feel sorry for John McCain today. And that's probably the last time I'm going to be nice to him till November!
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