From Yahoo News-- McCain: Reports on lobbyist a "smear"

TOLEDO, Ohio - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain issued a statement Wednesday night saying he "will not allow a smear campaign" to distract from his campaign as published reports questioned his relationship with a lobbyist.

The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain last year, as saying he met with Vicki Iseman and urged her to stay away from McCain. The New York Times suggested an inappropriate relationship between the Arizona senator and Iseman, a Washington lobbyist. The New York Times quoted anonymous aides saying they had confronted McCain and Iseman, urging them to stay away from each other, before his failed presidential campaign in 2000.

Eight years later, McCain is close to securing the GOP nomination. Aides said the senator would address the allegations at a news conference Thursday morning.

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McCain on claim of coziness with lobbyist: 'It's not true'

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TOLEDO, Ohio (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain on Thursday denied assertions published in The New York Times that he once had a close relationship with a female lobbyist whose clients had business before his Senate committee.

I'm disappointed in The New York Times piece. It's not true," he told reporters in Toledo, Ohio, his wife, Cindy, standing by his side.

He added that he has never "done anything that would betray the public trust or make a decision" that would favor a particular group.

His wife added that her husband always puts family and country first, and is "a man of great character."

The New York Times issued a statement Thursday saying it stands by its reporting and that "the story speaks for itself."

McCain on claim of coziness with lobbyist: 'It's not true' - CNN.com

Remember folks,this is the NYT breaking this story.Some say where there is smoke,there is fire. I say..sometimes smoke is just smoke,time will tell.

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I don't sense any black propaganda against McCain. It's only me perhaps. Anyway, this add another political hand to hand combat in presidential election

This is just the New York Times being it's typical political Democratic gunslingers...

Don't believe me?...Check this out...

Here's the story first coming to light 2 months ago...Notice the date...

MEDIA FIREWORKS: MCCAIN PLEADS WITH NY TIMES TO SPIKE STORY
Thu Dec 20 2007 10:49:27 ET

Then...Over ONE MONTH later...the same paper ENDORSES the guy for the Republican nomination!!!...

Editorial
Primary Choices: John McCain
Published: January 25, 2008

This was a setup all along...the story itself seems to be a simple "he said-she said", but the TIMING is remarkable...

The New York Times couldn't hurt the Republicans by trashing McCain two months ago because he was usually running 3rd or 4th in the contests...taking a swipe at him would've just made the guys in front look better (at the time, Mitt and Huck)...The NYT would have to find trash on THEM which they didn't have...So the NYT sits on the story, HELPS McCain get to frontrunner status with an endorsement, THEN when it's clear he'll be the nominee, they take the story they've been sitting on and make it public to hurt him...

Imagine that...Endorsing the guy you know you're going to stab later...What objective journalism!...

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Is objective journalism means yellow journalism? Hmmm...I too smell something fishy here.

I trust this report. How in the world the New York Times supports yellow journalism?

Ha! McCain did not realize the power of media now that the New York Times is laying some issues on him.

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