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Posted at 8:34pm on Feb. 23, 2008 The Silliest Scandal In A Long Time

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

We are now fixated over the issue of whether John McCain met a few people a while back thanks to the efforts of a lobbyist (with whom it is alleged without any evidence whatsoever that McCain had an affair of some sort). The alleged meeting was concerning regulatory issues surrounding the sale of a television station in Pittsburgh. One lobbyist claims that he did indeed meet with McCain. Another thinks not:

A former Paxson Communications president said Saturday he never met with John McCain about the Arizona senator writing letters to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the regulatory delay of a Pittsburgh TV station sale.

Dean Goodman, who was in charge of the company's lobbying efforts in 1999, told The Associated Press he also doubts that chief executive Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson met with McCain over the issue, and said he doesn't recall such a meeting.

McCain's presidential campaign said the Arizona senator and then-chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, before sending the letters, which have drawn controversy in recent days. But Paxson told The Washington Post in a story published Saturday that he and "probably" Iseman met with McCain on the matter several weeks before the senator sent the letters.

Goodman, who left the company a year and a half ago, took issue with that account in a telephone interview from West Palm Beach, Fla.

"I never met with or discussed this with Senator McCain," Goodman said. "I don't recall Bud meeting with McCain. It would be extremely rare that there would be a meeting that I didn't attend, and I can tell you that I didn't have a meeting with McCain on this issue."

"Whether Bud discussed it with him or not, via some other mechanism, I can't rule it out," Goodman added. But, he said, "I don't think there was a meeting."

Efforts to reach Paxson and Iseman were not successful.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 1:31am on Feb. 22, 2008 To Quote Shakespeare . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Much ado about nothing. This is a pathetically sourced story that--again, quoting Shakespeare--is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Why the New York Times chose to print this nonsense is anyone's guess, but maybe, all of those suppositions about media bias affecting what is supposed to be neutral reporting are, in fact, true. At least in this case, anyway.

Just out of curiosity, are we going to get some juicy tidbits about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama from "disgruntled" former staffers of theirs? Or are these kinds of slime jobs only reserved for John McCain?

Don't bother responding. We all know what the answer is.

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