John Dowd, Cindy McCain's attorney, complained in a letter to New York Times executive editor Bill Keller earlier this month that the paper had scrutinized the GOP nominee's wife but not investigated matters surrounding Barack Obama including his youthful drug use.
"You have not tried to find Barack Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father,"
Dowd wrote in a two-page letter sent to Keller while the paper was reporting a piece about Cindy McCain.
My only question to John Dowd...why hasn't the NYT or any other "librul" newspaper investigated who Cindy McCain's drug dealer was?
Obama's reference to drugs was in his distant past. Cindy was scrutinized when it was very much in her present.
Is the McCain campaign the whiniest campaign ever?
Wondering why the McCain campaign is getting its butt kicked? Note the sheer stupidity of this letter! The letter from Cindy McCain's lawyer
http://www.politico.com/...
The McCain campaign released the missive late Friday night in response to (a NYT story/biography about Cindy McCain appearing today, Saturday). It's the first time anybody so closely associated with McCain has raised the issue. The McCain campaign has truly taken the very lowest road imaginable!
http://www.nytimes.com/...
After reading the article in the NYT, I find that it barely mentioned her drug use and actually, I thought it was a fairly thoughtful and fairly presented biography of her. McCain comes out of this as a rather sympathetic character and not quite the ice queen that many imagine. McCain's camp is overreacting, as usual.
Three examples of the story in Saturday's NYT, where Cindy McCain's charitable work is duly noted and where her interference in the Keating5 investigation is also noted...perhaps that's the part she really doesn't like:
Those close to Mrs. McCain say she aspires to be like another blonde, glamorous figure married to an older man: Diana, the Princess of Wales. Mrs. McCain sought out the same mine-clearing organization that the princess supported, joining its board and traveling to minefields, just as her role model had. Mrs. McCain recently told British reporters that as first lady, she would take her cues from Diana, throwing herself into international philanthropy.
Mrs. McCain busied herself with the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charity she founded to supply medical equipment and expertise to some of the neediest places on earth, like Micronesia, Vietnam and Kuwait in the weeks after the Persian Gulf war. When Mrs. McCain visited Bangladesh after a cyclone, she stopped at an orphanage founded by Mother Teresa, who was not, as the campaign has said, present for the visit. Mrs. McCain returned with two baby girls; Mr. Gullet later adopted one, and Mrs. McCain informed her husband on landing that they would adopt the other.
Her husband was accused of improperly intervening on behalf of a donor, Charles Keating, whose failed savings and loan had cost taxpayers billions. Four other senators were implicated, and one Senate spouse: Mrs. McCain. She and her father had invested in a shopping center with Mr. Keating, and while Mr. McCain insisted that he had reimbursed Mr. Keating for vacations their families had taken together in the Bahamas, he said his wife, the family bookkeeper, could not find the receipts.
In addition to releasing the Dowd letter, the campaign issued a lengthy statement denouncing the piece. A spokesman noted that the paper included little about Cindy McCain's extensive charitable work.
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This campaign made every effort to share personal accounts of Mrs. McCain’s good works with the paper, but apparently they were deemed unfit for publication in the New York Times," said Michael Goldfarb.
The aggressive pushback is just the latest in the campaign's ongoing war with the Times. Campaign aides have publicly claimed the paper is an arm of Obama's campaign.
Despite their criticism, McCain officials still cooperate with Times journalists and cite the paper's reporting when it's in their interest. A front-page story on Obama's ties to Bill Ayers earlier this month, for example, was the peg that Sarah Palin used to insert the '60s-era domestic terrorist into the campaign.