Paxson Disputes McCain's claims that he never met with them before writing letters
By John Amato Friday Feb 22, 2008 2:01pmSo much for the Straight talk express. He's been trying to spin the influence that Ms. Iseman had on him overall and specifically regarding the Paxson deal. McCain's camp had this to say:
Statements from McCain's office said Iseman met only with staff and indicated that a staff member was involved in drafting and sending the letter. Thursday's statement went to lengths to say why McCain could not have met with Paxson.
There's a slight problem with that. Bud Paxson basically called McCain a liar.
Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf.
Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson's quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.
And what about Vicki Iseman, you know, the lobbyist that McCain called a "friend?"
Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, likely attended the meeting in McCain's office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post yesterday. "The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."
And what about the excuse his other lobbyist pals were using to defend his letter writings in the first place. It was just part of his job description as head of the Commerce Committee.
The two letters he wrote to the FCC in 1999 while he was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee produced a rash of criticism and a written rebuke from the then-FCC chairman, who called McCain's intervention "highly unusual." McCain had repeatedly used Paxson's corporate jet for his campaign and accepted campaign contributions from the broadcaster and his law firm.
I emailed Marcy and asked her about the sleazy looking Charlie Black's (the super lobbyist) excuse why McCain decided to write those letters to the FCC in the first place. He said it was only because a decision had been delayed for a long time and he wanted to move it along. Wheeler told me via email:
What no one seems to be asking is whether that was because of the very broad and active opposition to the channel swap in Pittsburgh. That is, the reason it had been held up for so long, presumably, is because the activists on the ground were winning the fight.
And she's right on.
The public opposition caused a long delay at the FCC, and by late 1999, it had been 30 months since the deal was offered for FCC approval. "What you had was the FCC normally taking a year to approve the transfer of stations, but they took two years," Paxson said.
McCain only wanted to thwart the will of the people. Read the full article because it's very informative and damaging to him on all levels.
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*Blinkblink* John McCain said he didn't like lobbyists, right? So is this another example of Republican hypocrisy from them who would sit in judgment on leftists, religious and non-? Oh, and I be Frist! Nah, nah, nanah! ;)
Everybody sing along with me the " you lying sack of crap" from the Stephanie Miller show.
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Even Amtrak wouldn't know how to start cleaning up this derailment of the Straight Talk Express. Clear off the tracks, but with only one victim: John McCain. Serves him right.
The only thing this proves is that McCain is a real Republican.
So much for the last refuge of peace and tranquility.
WASHINGTON | In a victory for gun rights advocates, the federal government is preparing to relax a decades-old ban on bringing loaded firearms into national parks.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
They also just slid through a bill that weakens Medicare b y taking away Federal $$ and making the States Pay instead. You see the problem ??? States don't collect any tax money for Health.
This is bush trying to make like he actually did something while in office other than make our country less safe and more hated, now he attacks the older citizens. What a guy.
The NY Times also published a Story Today that outlines even more dirt:
McCain's campaign said Sen. McCain’s efforts to retain the loophole were not done at Ms. Iseman’s request.
But according to the NY Times:
Bangkok Bob @ 8:
Here is the link for the Medicare Bill.
Boycott Nebraska! Defeat The Nazis @ 3:
And you da McMan today, BN!DTF! I'm lovin' the definitions and leavin' em in. The bird is awsome too.
Including your earlier contributions today, you've brought the current McList to 310.
Thanks McProlific McMan! You are today's leader for the coveted(not so much) McNamifier McGolden McProphylactic award.
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Bangkok Bob @ 8:
Bush and the armaments industry makes sure the War Party's coffers are filled to overflowing.
Proud2bHumble @ 11:
I'd fix it of I was anal, but I'm not so I won't...
The entire (211) current (as of Friday 12:01am pst) McName List :-D
and
Friday’s C&Ler’s contributions to the McNames McList (current total at the time 268) :-D
You's guys is awsum prolificatin' McNamifiers - Thankz! =(8<:}-)
I keep trying to listen to McCain's response, but all I hear is "glub...glub...glub." I didn't know the Straight Talk Express was a boat.
McCain has stopped answering questions about this and the Media has moved on. Too bad, but expected. This would make a good anti-McCain tv spot in the fall.
"I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing as secretary of State to see if we can use the last few months, as the president has put it, to sprint to the finish because there's a lot of work to do," Condi Rice said.
Right. Whats left you idiots haven't already completely looted or destroyed anyway?
McCain can't win the election. The GOP is running low on Republicans.
theWalrus @ 16:
Thats what they teach you to do in Media School.
Stop answering questions when the spin and deflection isn't successful.
More McCain Trouble: Petitioned FCC to Get His Cable Company to Show Up on Time
Mink eyelashes, cleavage buffing, underarm Botox - how the stars are preparing for Big Night.
Is this the miracle tht Huckabe is praying for? Holy shit!
However, nothing is going to happen to McCain. Why? Simply because this is the type of leader the Republicans love.
No more republicans once McCain is gone?
Maybe Hillary could run in his place if she loses the democratic nomination. You know, like Lieberman did.
Looks like the fearmongers got a gif editor: http://www.mqschmidt.com/bd6c0d00.gif
DavidtheDuke @ 24:
Nice. Can someone make one of Bush decomposing?
I will never forget that George Bush campaigned for President from an Enron corporate jet.
Enron.
If you ever wonder why the country is such a mess, just remember that.
Enron.
"Statements from McCain's office said Iseman met only with staff and indicated that a staff member was involved in drafting and sending the letter. Thursday's statement went to lengths to say why McCain could not have met with Paxson." - WAPO article
'Staff' and 'member' seen to come up frequently around this issue. Can you say McGloryholer?
#311 ;}
Hi, xoites 8-)
Hi 2b, how's it going?
“The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings.”
Yeah, the world's oldest profession.
xoites defends Constitution @ 28:
Apparently in a linear fashion, but it could just be a section of a really big circle.
;-}
Cantor de Mambo @ 29:
You are correct, sir!
"She went to Washington and got a job as a receptionist at Alcalde & Fay in Northern Virginia. Within a year, she had risen to special assistant to the firm's president. She was later promoted to lobbyist and was made the youngest partner in the firm in the late 1990s." - WAPO article
Proud2bHumble @ 31:
She apparently sucked at her job reallllllly well.
Proud2bHumble @ 30:
Did i ever tell you i was a time traveller?
Yes, it is true.
The only problem is i can only go in one direction and every minute takes sixty seconds.
xoites defends Constitution @ 33:
Yer not doin' the rite drugs.
Proud2bHumble @ 34:
I knew that.
xoites defends Constitution @ 35:
So masticate medical meditation and text me back, lol.
Go over to the open thread. Clinton blew it today.
Senator McCain was very clear to the press the other day : he never went to see Paxson and Vicki Iseman at the same time in 1999, as your blog mentions , before he sent the 2 letters to the FCC on behalf of Paxson, but today ,Feb.23,2008, the W.Post and the N.Y.T. reports on Paxson himself saying that McCain and Vicki Iseman were indeed there at the same meeting with him doing the push, and then McCain sent the 2 letters to the FCC , which found them insulting and bordering on illegal....but hey ! Straight shooter McCain has 2 key advisers to distract from the "little misunderstanding" , Wayne Berman and Henry Kissinger, the first one is the point man for the biggest Hedge-Funds in D.C. and the second,well...we all know the power of Henry " the Butcher " Kissinger in D.C., he is the King of Neocon himself, the master of wars and death, no one human survives against him, he spread death and destruction promoting the Vietnam War,then the Condor Operation in Latin America and then he pushed for the Iraq war in the 2002 White House,a real darling of the death indeed...so McCain is in good company, Berman ,Kissinger with Joshua Bolten and Eliot Abrams are masters themselves at twisting truth and facts to fit the neocon agenda, they will have McCain, Lieberman and Bloomberg in the White House in no time, honest elections are just a "little detail" for these neocons,and besides, they count now with a secret weapon: Ralph Nader is running as a Green Independent, to steal votes from the Democrats and push McCain into the Oval Office, brilliant ! ....95 % of the population in the USA don't know that Ralph is a good mensch, a good soldier of the Knesset, so it's a done deal ....
b) and about Wesley Clark, he was Nato commander bombing Serbia and killing thousands of christians in total excess and then he went on to Lobby for Private Data companies, making millions of dollars from it, and also to Lobby for certain companies pushing databases of people and businesses to "neocon contractors for the Government with plans to spy on americans" in 2002 to 2005, remember ? ,so this israeli-american lobby'st must explain what he gets from Adelson, Murdoch, Leviev, DeBeers,Bloomberg and his partner Merrill Lynch, Blankfein and Goldman Sachs , and from Maurice Greenberg , the guy that as chairman of A.I.G. collected disabled workers premiums and put them in his company as income and for his stock-options instead of paying the States, then he got caught and paid 400 million dollars in fines to these States and SEC and went home nice and easy , take that for power and neocon abuse !
c) just to see the power of these neocons, the other day Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal had a op-ed editorial pushing Avastin from Genentech-Roche for breast cancer, and since Rupert has made billions of dollars in ads from woman's make-up, eyeliner,deodorant and lipsticks,and since these chemically-loaded products (specially phtalates and colorants) by gravity end-up in the womans breast with no exit and turn into bad cells and cancer,he must feel the pain,so now he pushes a colon and lung cancer medicine for breast cancer, at 92.000 dollars a year for treatment !!, amazingly and criminally brilliant !!
Rupert has personally benefit with hundreds of millions of dollars in stock options and salary from these womans products ads in his TV ,cable,tabloids, etc.,and now his partners in Genentech and the FDA ( the top approval team is like a neocon club) are moving in for the kill, the financial kill that is,the other ,the woman's,they don't have time for that...what a criminal shame that Washington D.C. never did anything to.stop this crime ,shame ! .......so the FDA just approved Avastin for breast cancer, when they never mentioned what most in the medical community know,that chemicals in face make-up and lipstick is what goes down to the breast and turns into cancer cells, but the "grease " is powerful,money bends politicians in D.C. as well as some doctors and medical investigators, so silence while more woman get cancer ....money is powerful indeed !!!
i would urge all woman to only use organic and natural make-up , lipstick,eyeliner and deodorant,etc.,with NO CHEMICALS OF ANY KIND AND NO PHTALATES OR DERIVATIVES OF IT , and to consider getting together and finding a good lawyer to get some Justice, so that no one woman more in the world gets cancer from these chemicals ,not one more !
d) and since we are talking about toxic chemicals, 2 Los Alamos Labs smart investigators ,Martin , Kubic and their team have come up with a way to use potassium carbonate to absorb carbon dioxide, why not install these "filters" on coal power plants and nuclear plants? , cars ,trucks and airplanes? , President Bush and Congress could push a serious plan to bring practical solutions to market right now , helping private industry move on it fast, will they do anything ?
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/12554
that's why Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee must stay "in" until Convention and for the American People , we still don't know the end of it ....
The real McCain is a lying, hypocritical old codger whose loss of masculinity has driven him toward dark and evil methods. I would imagine that his father, the Admiral, is turning over in his grave to see his son caught in multiple lies and the fact that he cannot cover his a$$ this time around! Just desserts, McCorpse, just desserts.
repugs lie and don't give a damn about facts.
mccain is the best the repugs can do. he is a sleazy liar before he's even nominated. If this old fart is claiming
selectedamnesia this is another reason he's unfit to serve as President of the United States.he served our country well, now it's time for him to leave with some honor.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
GTFOOH! When chimpy's in office the gun banned stuck? Why would one need a loaded gun at a park?
Proud2bHumble @ 31:
This is mccain's deep throat.
CNN: "John McCain says he doesn't look for any major political reforms in Cuba until after Fidel Castro dies, adding he hopes that's not far off."
One old man wishing another old man dead soon. Isn't that tempting faith?
Here's to McCain living to see all his scandals exposed...
Isn't true there was also a story today that confirmed that Old Man Paxson was incorrect - he did not meet with McCain? I guess the slam fest can continue by the McDelusional and McHuman Debris. Move out of your parent's basements, get a job, have kids, get a mortgage and experience grown-up life. Participate and don't be parasites anymore.
tHeGaMeOfLiFe @ 41:
How else do you expect the Clintons to get rid of Obama ala Vince Foster.....?
JM's sorry. At his age, he forgets things.
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