Things are quiet on McCain story. A little TOO quiet. "The Iseman Cometh."

[CTyankee]

Here's a nice piece in Salon today http://www.slate.com/id/2184893/pagenum/all/#page_start

No real follow up in NYT, no editorial comment. RW pundits are nervously saying "It's all over folks. Move on, nothing here to see."

In their dreams. Something is brewing out there. I'm convinced that McCain wouldn't have lawyered up with such a heavy hitter as Bob Bennett just to tamp down a NYT story. And I saw a nervous man and a steely eyed wife at that press conference yesterday.

The silence is deafening. There is more to come.

Stay tuned, DU.

[Beausoir]

1. What's strange is that Bennet met with the NYT reporters prior to the release of the story and was

not able to dissuade them from publishing.

I'm betting there are more bullets left in the gun.

ETA: I think I am correct about Bennet meeting with the Times prior. That is the strong impression I got from watching him last evening on various news programs.

[tekisui]

3. Definitely. Someone is going to follow up, probably the NYT, with more details.

[groovedaddy]

4. Maybe they wanted the denial from McCain before they really unloaded?

The "quid quo pro" aspect of this mess is REAL whether or not they had an affair. But they all deny that campaign contributions get the donors anything. What a crock!

[SpiralHawk]

18. "The other steenkin shoes soon will drop." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer

"We republicon occultists can sniff the stardust emanating from the Full Moon Eclipse, which will REVERBERATE for months on McCain's Virgo Sun, triggered by Saturn."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer

[Hepburn]

9. Based on those facts, I would agree.

If they stood up to Bennett and his pontificating, begging and threats, IMO, whatever the NYT has is solid....or they would not have published what I look at as "Round One."

JMHO

[SoFlaJet]

2. So CT do you think

there is going to be more on this story with Ms Icelady coming to the fore with some accusations or revelations?

[CTyankee]

7. I do. They can't stuff the genie back in the bottle at this point.

And I don't think the New York Times ever publishes wispy stories. They were burned pretty badly with the Judy Miller fiasco and she had been around a long time and seemed to be pretty straight. No, I don't think the Times would take a flying leap. I just don't think they have nailed down the confirmed sources yet.

Too many questions out there. And the RW media has been so quickly dismissive, I get the feeling they are whistling past the graveyard...

[displacedtexan]

5. Watch for a major revelation from one of those...

reporters mentioned in the Salon story.

The revelation involves McCain, Isemen, and a DC hotel room.

I can't tell you how I know this.

[Beausoir]

6. For real?

[displacedtexan]

10. For real.

And it's not the NYT.

The reporter I know was a actually in the same hotel at the time.

I can say no more.

I promised.

[Hepburn]

11. Holy fuck....

...ao McCain lied when he denied? Imgaine that....wait....he just said no ROMANTIC relationship. Never denied she was merely a fuck buddy.

I am staying tuned....:popcorn:

[blondeatlast]

15. You just mde my buddy list!

:hug: :rofl:

[speedoo]

17. Hard to believe McCain is quite that stupid.

A hotel? In DC of all places?

Well, I suppose it's possible that McCain and the lady arrived and departed seperately, and took other precautions so that they would not be seen together. But apparantly adequate precautions were not taken, or perhaps the reporter you know came upon something by accident. After all, McCain is not a very cautious man, that's for damn sure.

In any case, I am convinced we will hear more about this and what we will hear will hurt McCain badly. I am sure he was lying yesterday, based on the body language I saw.

[blondeatlast]

21. "For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk "--that was the title of the NYT

This is a man who is so certain of his moral purity that he got caught in the Keating 5 scandal--and likely this one, because he's just certain no one would exploit his position as Senator. so confident that outsiders have to point out that what he's doing won't look right and proper to the public.

Go back and read the last page of the NYT piece about his dealings with Keating; that's the part that nails his weakness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1&sq=mccain%20affair&st=cse&scp=1

[SoFlaJet]

22. I have this mental image

of a reporter walking past a hotel room door where the door gets opened and senator McCain is tied up with a rubber ball in his mouth and the Icelady is decked out in leather with a whip-ruined my cup of morning coffee

[Beausoir]

26. Well, thanks for that.

Ruined my coffee as well.

[SoFlaJet]

29. see how I am B?

I am a stinker ain't I?

[displacedtexan]

31. Yes, it was accidental.

[CTyankee]

8. Hmm. This is what I mean.

If we have someone right here at DU with info, what must the Times have that they are not revealing yet?

[SoFlaJet]

12. Oh come ON

everybody KNOWS they were playing Parcheesi in that hotel room-McCain is a world class champ and he heard Icelady is good competition-I can hear it now....

[CTyankee]

13. Well, judging by the looks of both of them, Parcheesi is prolly ecstatic compared to

whatever "sex" they might have had! :rofl:

[SoFlaJet]

19. It IS an ugly

picture on the brain-thinking of grampa with a woman 30 years his junior

[blondeatlast]

14. Yep. When I heard KO say Bennett was McKeating's lawyer, I knew something was up.

It's the bank, not the boink.

[The Stranger]

16. WHERE IS THE INTERVIEW WITH ISEMAN? WHERE IS BABA WAWA?

[speedoo]

20. She's a lobbyist.

Public exposure is not exactly beneficial to her career.

[Hepburn]

23. Guess that private exposure...

...is more beneficial, right?

:rofl:

[ProgressiveFool]

24. Well really, the cheap and easy follow-up story for any reporter

is to go back and investigate the circumstances surrounding how McCain dumped his first wife for Cindy McCain. His history as a chaser of younger women is already established, and it fits his pattern of wrong-doing and then trying to do the "honorable" thing, i.e. marrying her. It's the same pattern as his accepting bribes in the Keating Five scandal, and then trying to do the honorable thing and passing campaign finance reform.

The take-away is that while McCain might generally believe in "doing the right thing", he is weak and succumbs to his impulses too easily. His "remorse" doesn't really make up for it, and that's certainly not a personality that is qualified to be "the Decider".

[fascisthunter]

25. Sports Talk Radio in Boston already calling the NYT a rag

RNC meme: kill the messenger. Funny how they didn't mind the NYT when Judith Miller was hyping up WMD's in Iraq; then the NYT was credible.

[CTyankee]

27. Scarborough looked REALLY breezy in his dismissal of the story this morning.

Mika looked a little nervous and tried to say something but he stepped all over her as usual. Andrea Mitchell hedged and said "the other shoe hasn't fallen yet." I think Andrea knows something's up. She's been around too long and has that air of weary inevitability about her. She didn't want to be caught dismissing the story outright, cuz she's probably got info to the contrary.

I suspect LOTS of people in D.C. do...

[fascisthunter]

30. At First I Was Hesitant to Jump on This Story

but man.... there is just way too much there besides an affair.

[npincus]

28. Sorry, but I think it's over.

Not enough interns, not a Democrat... and, the NYT gets to be the RW media elite's punching bag.

[wtmusic]

32. It's not much of a story.

Wish it was but it's not. If there was something truly incriminating it would have come to light, but the story is dead.