McCaingate - ABC, CBS, Faux, MSNBC web sites got it...not CNN!

[NRaleighLiberal]

This is quite odd - that CNN is paying no attention to this breaking story that is NOT about sex - it is about the straight talk express diddling with a lobbyist.

TPM...Josh Marshall has a superb summary of where it is, what is missing, and where it may be going.

[bigwillq]

1. Anderson Cooper led with it (nt)

[stillrockin]

2. It was on the local news here at 11. (D.C.)

[NanceGreggs]

3. Watched Larry King tonight ...

... because he had Jon Stewart as a guest. King opened his show with the story - he and Stewart discussed it as well.

When I turned off, Anderson Cooper was opening his show with the story as well ...

[MonkeyFunk]

4. Lou Dobbs did it

and so did Anderson Cooper.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. I'm not watching but went to their website. Nothing there.

http://www.cnn.com/

not a peep.

on edit, as of 0009 EST, there was nothing on the front page or political page about the McCain telco lobbyist who had intimate access story.

They'll give in eventually though.

[pocoloco]

6. This may not be good news, it broke too quick.

It would have been much better after he had the nomination.

[RuleOfNah]

11. After the convention would have been better for (D).

Now is good for some (R). Huckamoon? Romney? Jeb? Of those three I would guess Huckamoon. The story has been around for a while. Why now? Why so coordinated?

[Hutzpa]

12. Huckamoon seem wounded and hurting,

especially the blackoout from MSM.

[marlakay]

7. I noticed CNN didn't take Jon off which

I was happy about, usually when something comes off they disrupt whatever was going to be on.

I was thinking though why didn't they talk about it more??

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. There's no -gate n/t

[Coexist]

9. interesting bit, this:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179402.php

At the moment it seems to me that we have a story from the Times that reads like it's had most of the meat lawyered out of it. And a lot of miscellany and fluff has been packed in where the meat was. Still, if the Times sources are to be believed, the staff thought he was having an affair with Iseman and when confronted about it he in so many words conceded that he was (much of course hangs on 'behaving inappropriately' but then, doesn't it always?) and promised to shape up. And whatever the personal relationship it was a stem wound about a lobbying branch.

I find it very difficult to believe that the Times would have put their chin so far out on this story if they didn't know a lot more than they felt they could put in the article, at least on the first go. But in a decade of doing this, I've learned not to give any benefits of the doubt, even to the most esteemed institutions.

Equally telling, though, is the McCain camp's response and their clear unwillingness to address or deny any the key charges of the piece. (Read the statement closely. It's all bluster.) When it comes to sex stories even falsely accused politicians have some reluctance to get into nitty gritty denials. But McCain -- or rather McCain's communications office since it's in their name not his -- doesn't even address it.

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Reading all of this stuff I have the distinct feeling that only a few pieces of the puzzle are now on the table. Given unspoken understandings of many years' duration, a lot of reporters and DC types can probably imagine what the full picture looks like. But we're going to need a few more pieces before the rest of us can get a sense of what this is all about.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Interesting - go to Wikipedia and put in Vicki Iseman - takes you to

the John McCain entry, but I can't find her name or the event listed there yet....so someone was pretty quick with adding the redirection link!

[Tweed]

13. Obama = No Lobbyists + McCain = Literally in Bed with Lobbyists

= Game Over