McCain and the Lobbyist

[lollardfish]

I really don't care whether or not McCain had an affair with the lobbyist. What I care about is the favoritism he showed to her clients in trying to bully the FCC.

That's the scandal here, and I'd really like the media to focus on it, not whether or not there was an affair.

Comments

Re: I'm interested in favoritism too...

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

I agree with the idea that everybody does it. But that doesn't explain why sometimes it catches fire as a story more than other times. Every time it becomes a hot story, it becomes about more than one thing.

As for always, always: there are plenty of rumors about historical women in power having lovers too (Catholics in the 16th century accused Queen Elizabeth of either being a slave to her male lovers or of having boy toiys all around her). And there are plenty of stories about politicized sex in history that are not true too (as is likely the case with some of the ones around Elizabeth, and maybe even with this one about McCain), which means that the gossip has a life separate from the facts. The facts, though, may be as you describe them.