CNN

Oh wah... "big bad news paper makes me feel bad." Go home and take a bath in all your money. You'll feel better.

If the Republicans were credible they would have attacked Fox news for the exact same reason, same goes for the swift boaters.

And if we do find out McCain did cheat on his wife, then once again theses Republicans sticking up for him will have egg on their faces.

You morons on this board do not understand the issue. The NYT outright lied. It's just further proof that the media is totally in bed with the DNC. Thank god for FOX News, at least there, you can get a different side of the story.

It is very sad to see that NYT has forgotten Journalism 101.
I suggest CNN and NYT start over and reevaluate what they are doing to their reputation.

As an American Citizen it is sad not to be able to trust your news organizations. Sad times for news integrity.

LOL Why hasn't the "White House" admonished FARCE NEWS?

This is what McCain gets for touting "experience and integrity" Clearly his experience doesn't come from being "clean". Lobbyist=special interest=McCain.

Hypocrite much?

Hypocrisy at its finest on display at the White House daily!! They can dish it out, but can't take it....

NYT is Fair and Balanced.

Randy – Denver February 22nd, 2008 12:37 pm ET
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Poor Poor US.. everyone is sooo mean to the republicans.. thats why they call it swift boating.. oh wait that was the republicans, well maybe they meant when the papers were all attacking a sitting president for personal affairs, no wait that was a democratic president, they must have meant when the papers all gave the president a free ride while he lied his way into Iraq… no wait.. I guess I am confused

3 hours?!?! come on!

Where's that perky but wifty Dana Perino on these issues? Bald flacks have been out since Ari Fleischer.

Ah, the Repubs. They can dish it out but they sure can't take it.

If you want to see to some dirty attacks on McCain, just listen to the conservative "pundits." Or listen to Bush in 2000. They've attacked him more viscously than anyone.

Ironically, the Bush administration sees external entities like the NY Times as enemies (typical of Bush's black/white extremist mentality) ... and is completely oblivious to the fact that Bush destroyed the Republican party and McCain's chance of being president.

Times or no Times, McCain will lose because of Bush. Meanwhile, the White House, as usual, acts like a dimwitted bully with a paranoid persecution complex.

...And Fox news doesn't target Democrats?
Please. If Time didn't have any proof in making such allegations, they would run the risk of being sued by Mc Cain or whoever. If you smell the skunk, it can't be too far away!

WHO IS ORCHESTRATING the comments filed above ?? The repetitive argument targeting FOX shows that clearly ?? Could it be the same people to which the reporters of the story belong ??

TOM

From what I can tell, the NYT never outright accused McCain of adultery, but rather quoted people in his campaign who suspected him of it. Although it wouldn't be the first time McCain had extramarital relations, it's probably not true and not even important.

What's interesting to me is how there's more attention being put on this "romantic relationship" (that probably didn't happen) than on the professional one. The real issue at hand here – the one most likely to damage McCain's campaign – is whether or not he allowed his policies to be influenced by a lobbyist. The Washington Post quotes one of his aides as saying, "We were running a campaign about reforming Washington, and her showing up at events and saying she had close ties to McCain was harmful."

As Logan pointed out above, the supposed extramarital ties are insignificant in the larger picture. There seems to be little substance to support this claim. What the media should be investigating is the larger claim – did McCain, who has denounced the power and influence of lobbyists, act on behalf of "special interests"?

Let's stop the paranoia. It sounds as if the NYT has made a major mistake, but that doesn't mean they have any axe to grind against the Republican they have endorsed. The story sounds implausible. I'm a Democrat who wouldn't be voting for McCain under any circumstances; but this isn't one of the reasons.

True, but they never did it in so a National Inquirer-like form

I would advise the GOP an CNN, if the latter would like to be fair,
investigate which are the reporters and the backgroung which seemingly filtered the story to the New republic and used this
to force Keller, against his opinion that the story was not supported, to run it, which obviously not speaks well of yje later character.

TOM

What do you expect from a liberal newspaper? They go after McCain and Clinton with boxing gloves and won't touch Obama. There is plenty about Obama quit treating him with kid gloves. Check his past, the present before you give our future to him.

Lobbyist! They have been around us then, now, and in the next 20 years. So what, that's polotics. Remember the old saying. I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine.

i think there may be truth in the story....NYT did what they are supposed to and the onus is now on McCain to clear his name.

the private jets
the letters to FEC on behalf of ms. Iseman's clients
the close relationship to ms. Iseman

when the truth eventually comes out, Bill Clinton will sound more believable than McCain!

can't wait!!!!

Who cares if they attack the party? Plenty of more conservative news organizations attack the Dems all the time. It keeps the people looking at the politicians critically, which is a good thing, seeing as most members of both parties are as crooked as scoliosis

The Bush White House's opinions on anything are irrelevant. This is a group of people with no concept of truth or honor. Every member of this administration should be placed under a federal gag order until they begin testifying under oath. The GOP has no room to complain about anything, as they seem to have forgotten they were elected to represent the citizens of the country, not Wall Street & its CEOs

Proud Texan, you read the Times enough to keep track of bias in articles? You must be retired and sitting around bored. I just read the local papers and watch tv and surf the internet, but I haven't accumulated enough data to analyze their politics (except to say that my local paper hates Democrats and finds GOP butt kissing sweet). I'm afraid you're just repeating what you heard someone else say when you say the Times cares nothing for the truth and has a habit of printing factless, biased stories about conservative candidates.

Too much careless use of 'facts everyone knows' here, like 'everyone knows' Hillary is cold and 'everyone knows' McCain cheated on his wife, well, he did, I mean cheated on his second wife. In fact we only know what we read, and it's all biased crap.

Dear Mr. President,

Can we get back to immigration reform....like REALLY fast?

A 23-year-old illegal alien who had no idea how to drive ran a stop sign, causing a crash with a school bus and pickup truck.

Four kids were killed, many others injured.

Her alibi didn't have a drivers license. She worked under this name. This is the second reckless driving accident under this name. The other time she crashed into someone's home.

Sincerely,

America

Yep, the times went to far-I'm repulsed by tar and feather reporting. However-I'm araid we'r stuck with it until republicans regognize that reporting (if you can call it that) by Fox New is at least 100 times as toxic as any thing the Times has ever published. Mc'cain are you disapointed enough in this unfair reporting to comment on unfair reporting as awhole and mention Mr. Murdochs' Fox News ? They don't like you anyway. Oh I'm sure the tune is changeing now that they have something they can point at as biaed reporting not to mention you, the republican front runner, So-while you'er complaining about biased and untruful reporting why not make it a campainge issue and point at all ofences by all the media. You claim to have courage, show us.

The NYT really should get the integrity of Fox News.

McKain's lots of time in the senate = lots of dirt. What will bring addtional disrepute to Senator Wallmart Greeter is the hypocrisy that is becoming his public mantra.

Shame on the management of the New York Times that has taken a well-respected institution and turned it into a biased political rag.

So because it's McCain the NYT shouldn't look into something that looked to a lot of other people like an impropriety? He should get no special treatment.

If Sen. Obama was hanging around with an aid or lobbyist the NYT and the GOP would be all over it.

Plus, McCain's first marriage ended because of him sleeping around.

Remember, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...... it's usually a duck.

First of all, McCain is not "the Republican nominee". Second, the NYT has (for better or worse) endorsed him. Finally, it is comical that the White House should be complaining about the one newspaper which has the distinction of having done more than any other publication to induce otherwise skeptical people to support President Bush's invasion of Iraq, thanks primarily to the breathless, irresponsible reporting by Judith Miller.

Fox News = Fuax News = shill for the White House and the idiot frat boys in charge.

Nothing credable here – thank god there is less than a year left with the moron in charge and his band of evil.

TYPE IN WORST EVER IN GOOGLE SEARCH....AND YOU WILL SEE BUSH....THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION HAS NO GROUNDS TO BE A CRITIC TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING...

BUT THEN AGAIN, WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT BUSH ANYMORE? HE IS OVERSHADOWED BY OBAMA!!

MCCAIN NEEDS TO RETIRE HE IS TOO OLD...

The staff set up the meeting Sen McCain had the meeting, What ever they talk about unless you were there you don't know. But still bad timeing for Sen McCain

I think NEWS papers should report NEWS, color me silly. Two unnamed sources, BOTH parties deny the affair, does not sound like news to me. High school gossip, yes.. news no. What are they going to write next, how Hillarys' hair cut makes her look older?

The liberal New York Times targets a Republican. I'm shocked! I'm appalled, disgusted, outraged..... bored.

I think the White House, whose staff represents all of the United States and not just Republicans whether they like it or not, should stay out of the campaign.

Good for the NYTimes. McCain smells of stink.

Yes Mr. Stanzel, it's as if, suddenly, maybe by an act of God, and after 11 years of Bushes and 16 years of Clintons, the White House has credibility on this or any other subject.

Gorbashov, Long Beach, Ca. wrote February 22nd, 2008 12:53 pm ET

"Now if you want to talk about journalistic bias…………….Faux (FOX) News anyone!?"

You are absolutly right. !! Specially Bill O'Reily and Shawn, they strew up so much animosity along reliegious, ethnic party lines (Flase claimes of rape inside the NO Superdome during Katrina), it is disgusting.

When Ron Paul was under attack by every media outlet, did anyone speak up? No. The only reason the "white house" is defending McCain is because he's a Bush & Co Goon. McCain = Bush.

It's that simple.

Oh please, that's been pretty well known for quite some time now...

And does it really matter anyway? Fox News targets Democrats.

Most News papers and TV stations have bias towards a party, get over it. Democrats have the support of The New York Times, Republicans get Fox News. Of course The New york Times are held more accountable because it is run my more intelligent people, um... come to think of it so is the democratic party.

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Take a look for a surprise that may be waiting in the wings especially if Nader is mixed in the bunch…
YOUTUBE – Obama limo party for information on recent story

Go Obama/08

Bubba writes: ........ Republicans are a horny lot, aren't they?

and Democrats are not? remember John F. Kennedy? yup, the same inspiration leader who obama is compare too?

human beings are human beings, no matter what kind of job they do, NOBODY is completely righteous no, not even obama or oprah

GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSES

WHIINING, WHINNING, WHINNING....
OH THE PRESS FAVORS OBAMA BLAH, BLAH, BLAH....

IF JOHN MCCAIN CAN'T STAND UP TO THE NEW YORK TIMES AND TELL THEM TO F _ _ K OFF, LIKE HE DID TO TED KENNEDY, JOHN CORNYN & CHUCK HAGEL, HOW IS HE GONNA STAND UP TO AL-QAEDA ??

Hey White House person maybe the story is true about John McCain and the lady in question. We dont want McCain in the White House because it will be business as usual. Like G.W.Bush`s war for oil in Iraq. McCain will keep us there so they can try to take Iraq oil. Bush and his corporate cronies wanted this war, and they manipulated intelligence to get us there.

Oh well, the Republicans have been bamblasting perfectly
great people much greater than any of them, for years.
It is called evil politics with the Swiftboating ads. And
in the name of the evangelicals.

@A proud texan:

Duh…. anyone with half a brain (guess that excludes Republicans) knows that Fox habitually goes after liberals, usually without any proof. They could care less about reporting the truth– it's all about pushing their conservative agenda on the rest of us, and the sad part is, many Americans can't/won't see what's really happening.

The GOP needs to be cleansed, seriously. I don't get it.

Get rid of these clowns and get back to the principles, Republicans! You had a good thing going with the fiscal economic issues, return to that stat and in a decade or so you may get the chance to be electable once again.

with very few honorable exceptions, i.e. Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper, CNN and all other media establishments have done a lousy job during this electoral campaign. There had always been some bias, but this time is bluntantly there.

They found a media darling that sells them papers and doubleclicks so now after protecting him to post him as the democratic candidate, it is time now to attack McCain, early enough so he doesn't have a chance for the Presidential elections.

Obama and his media court are in for a big surprise.

...and they claim not to play politics as usual

This is one of the most corrupt adminstration in the 43 years of my life. Now all of sudden the media is treating them so unfair. Aww! And all the good you do (in your mind)!

Some of these comments are incredible.

Because of the existence of Fox News, that therefore means that the NY Times is free to lower journalism standards into the toilet? If that's the case, why should there be any standards at all?

First liberals complain there is no media bias. Then they whine about Fox News. But of course, the reason Fox News stands out at all is because it's so different from older media outlets that are ALSO biased. All groups of human beings are going to have some bias or the other.

This is not about the bias. It's about the low standards of journalism....they are not the same thing. You can have an agenda and still source a story, right?!

Whenever a story is printed in the newspaper with these type of allegations, they are always true. McCain is GUILTY! He cheated on his disabled first wife, so why would voters not think him capable of cheating on his second wife? Romney was the only candidate with high moral values and the only one who never cheated on his one and only wife. McCain is finished! Romney 2012. I can't wait.

Waiting today for the Times to provide actual sources for their McCain story. And waiting. And waiting....! No, really? That's all they had?!

Garbage journalism is the same no matter the target, liberal or conservative. It's not a matter of picking sides depending on your party registration, it's a matter of what's right and wrong. How can any fair person defend a story like this?

I think Sen.McCain needs to stop now" Guys this is the year for Change..08 OBAMA

And Bush is the worst president we have ever had. If anything the NYT did not do a good enough job exposing our horrible horrible president.

Have to say this is also something I totally agree with:
This Administration has always attacked others for bringing attention to it's self serving agenda while it sets up and maintains smokescreens for it's misdeeds. Who cares what Bush has to say? He should be in prison.

People seem to be saying FOX News does this to Democrats. Has anyone seen Fox's ratings compared to CNN's? They're blowing CNN out of the water. Fox must be doing something right.

YOUTUBE – Obama Limo for information on recent post.

Take a look for a surprise that may be waiting in the wings.

Anyone that thinks the media is fair and balanced needs to good kick in the head. The only way to get true news is to read multiple sources.

___________________________

A proud Texan February 22nd, 2008 12:23 pm ET

Duh…. anyone with half a brain (guess that excludes Democrats)

ROFL someone from Texas is calling others dumb now that is funny

______________________________________________

Kathryn Irby February 22nd, 2008 12:28 pm ET

Larry Flynt has "struck again"!

Wow I didnt realize that Flynt was running for president. Whats the matter Kathryn still pissed that free speech won (Flynt and penthouse) won over religious tolitarianism (Falwell)?

Dont' look now but another sNAKE GOP just got indicted..YOU GOP FOOLS HAVE NO PRAYER AGAINST HILLARY..

yaaaaaawn. If you're a democrat you might read the NY Times. If you're a republican you most likely read WSJ. The NY Times at this point is about one step above a high school newspaper.

The Republican/ Karl Rove smear machine has destroyed so many people and they continue to use the same tactics and the continue to cry when someone bops them. Tom Delay said he didn't do anything wrong, Bill Frist said he didn't do anything wrong. We will probably see the reporters finally dig up the facts and watch Mr. McCain crumble too. These GOP pols think we, the people, are stupid. Take a better look fellows........we, the people have woken up.

Its always the New York Times fault right, its never the crooked politicians?

Except when the Bush administration used the NYT to stump for a war with Iraq.

Get out of here, GOP deserves what they are getting and much more.

WASN'T JUDITH MILLER ET AL WRITING FOR THE NYT NOT TOO LONG AGO??!!

IS THE WHITE HOUSE STILL RELEVANT??

C'MON JAN 2009...YOU CAN'T GET HERE SOON ENOUGH!!!

Hey White House, SHUT UP! Honestly, does anyone really care what opinions circulate from the White House?

I am just so very upset and dissolutioned about the negative campaigning that has been recklessly distributed about political candidates.

I am a democrat, and I believe the New York Times was entirely out of line for trying to scandalize McCain, a republican. I am not for McCain, but that doesn't matter. What the "accusation" does is throw a cast of doubt about his character which in turn might take votes away from him. Even if they retract the accusation, it will not be removed or blocked out of our minds.

The American people want credible information about all of the candidates, whether they be republican, democrats, independents, white, black, female, whatever. Credible information that will educate us regarding their abilities to run a country.

Information regarding their "human mistakes" in life, especially mistakes that are several years old are not relevence to us.

All media need to refrain from such inappropriate comments, remarks, etc about candidates.

Thank you

You've got to be kidding me. They're whining about the Times? How about Valerie Plame, Scooty Libby, and the fact you attacked McCain over this as well.

Pathetic scum.

Maybe the Times wouldn't target the Republicans so much if they didn't have such a disproportionate number of criminals. Excuse me, alleged criminals.

I didn't realize that Bill Clinton was a member of the GOP?

Puh-lease. Enough of shooting the messenger. They do this to both parties.

Now if you want to talk about journalistic bias................Faux (FOX) News anyone!?

So, are we to suppose that he's more honest than previous Bush mouthpieces? I'd been thinking McCain was being swiftboated, but if Stanzel's attacking the messenger it's got to be true. Republicans are a horny lot, aren't they?

To be fair, there have been an enormous number of legitimate bombshells to drop on the Bush campaigns and administrations. Maybe a more credible Republican should be speaking on McCain's behalf.

And of course Fox News doesn't get the same treatment from the White House for its inept performance attacking any Democrat it sees fit to slander. Probably because that is "News" right?

I would imagine any news agency that reports the news is likely viewed by the Republicans as being hostile towards them, given how much they do to draw negative publicity towards themselves.

And what does the White House have to say about how Fox News treats democratic candidates?

The Republicans really need tro stop whining everytime they are called to the carpet for their actions. John McCain has said he has never "done anything that would betray the public trust or make a decision" that would favor a particular group. Those are BIG words coming from one of the Keating Five ( google that s**t if you don't recognize it). McCain betrayed the public trust in his dealings with Charles Keating, it is not a far stretch to think he betrayed his wife's trust with a blonde lobbyist.

Campaign spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said in a statement that the newspaper had engaged in a "smear campaign" and that nothing in the story suggests "that John McCain ever violated the principles that have guided his career."

Again...EVER violated the priciples that guide his career? These statements alone are bold-faced lies. Google "The Keating Five" and see how really above board Saint John has been.

That's because the Republicans have been running the country bozo!

The GOP had a headlock on the Congress from 1994 to 2006 and is still able to obstruct progress in the barely Democratically-controlled congress. They have also run the White House and Justice Department for the last seven years.

The media looks for stories where the power lies and in the case of some Republicans, there is plenty to go after.

But the GOP should take heart, four years from now the Times and others will be going after the Dems.

Poor Poor US.. everyone is sooo mean to the republicans.. thats why they call it swift boating.. oh wait that was the republicans, well maybe they meant when the papers were all attacking a sitting president for personal affairs, no wait that was a democratic president, they must have meant when the papers all gave the president a free ride while he lied his way into Iraq... no wait.. I guess I am confused.

I would expect the print media to "target" the "other side" - read: whoever the editor(s) do not align with philosophically. But I would hope that what they print AS NEWS would be accurate. What's on the opinion or editorial pages I do not care about - it is expected to be slanted. But, there needs to be more accuracy in the reporting and it seems like that is no longer the case, and it is a shame. Another reflection on what is wrong with America. I just hope and pray that however this election turns out, that we can, as a nation, unite behind the winner and move forward - as opposed to spending 4 years bashing him/her.

Maybe the NYTimes should check into Weather Underground...I would like to know if Obama is involved with them?

Typical Republican response: don't address the story, make the story about the source and their motivation. They have been incredibly successful with it as this article demonstrates. We should expect more, such as the discussion of whether the story has merit or not, rather than the discussion of which media source has it in for which party (of course it's always the poor Republics that get picked on).

I don't know but did anyone else see McCain speaking to the media? I got a degree in criminology, just to clarify so I'm not some sort of mad McCain attacker or anything. One thing we were taught is to read people, their body language and eye movements can tell you things as to whether they are lying or just generally uncomfortable. I'm looking at him giving his response and he blinked like 1,000 times while denying that there was any wrong-doing. He just blinked and blinked and blinked. I'm sitting here trying to read him and his wife was just looking at him and would blink normally. If the camera panned to the crowd no one else was blinking every other second. I've seen McCain talk at other times and I've never noticed him to blink that much.

Larry Flynt has "struck again"!

Kathryn Irby
Metairie, LA

“I'm not saying they never give that kind of treatment [to a Democratic nominee]. But we see it pretty regular [in] treatment of the Republican nominee,” Stanzel said of the Times.

Wonder why? It's because your GOP buddies are abusing their office powers and engaging in corruptive behavior. No wonder so many people have been disenfranchised by the Republicans. I can't wait till they're all out of office.

The national media in bed with an agenda?? Nooooo..... Say it ain't so...

Jason Blair must be beaming......

Duh.... anyone with half a brain (guess that excludes Democrats) knows that the Times habitually goes after conservatives, usually without any proof. They could care less about reporting the truth– it's all about pushing their liberal agenda on the rest of us, and the sad part is, many Americans can't/won't see what's really happening.

This Administration has always attacked others for bringing attention to it's self serving agenda while it sets up and maintains smokescreens for it's misdeeds. Who cares what Bush has to say? He should be in prison.

News papers are not known to make those kind of mistakes, as they did not with Nixon, and Clinton.

NYT gave the GOP a common denonimator.

"The White House took aim at the New York Times Friday over its investigation of presidential candidate John McCain, with a spokesman telling reporters the paper unfairly targets Republicans."

And nearly every other news outlet in the country unfairly targets Democrats, so stop whining and go watch Fox News...

More cry baby stuff.

See what it's like on the receiving end.

BESIDES, what Bush did to McCain in the 2000 election makes what the NYT did like slap on the wrist

Hypocrititis is the medical term.

Fox news attacks Democrats...

YouTube=CNN=BHO=shameless

Yah, who said that they should express their opinions?