CNN

Cheaters cheat. McCain cheated when married to wife#1, and it's no surprise he cheated when married to wife #2. This woman and #2 are almost interchangeable...so why is this news?

Oh, right...she wants MONEY. Sigh...that's SO last season...

Just another money grubbing Republican trying to make a fast buck.

Hopefully, their loss in the lawsuit will cause the NYT to go bankrupt and thus their demise. What a pity....................................

Poor loser republican they just can't accept that their moral issue is as much as or even worse than the charge they trying to nail Clinton with. Sorry but I do believed that the New York Times has a legitimate evidence since they are standing up to their story. I can't wait for her lawsuit. I hope it's an open hearing so we'll hear the dirty stuff. As for John Mcain he's much more worse than Bill Clinton cause Bill never left Hillary when she needed him most.

What a joke

Another loser looking for a free ride

The Times only reported what was already known

She should sue John McCain.....he probably leaked the story to the Times. He wanted everyone to think he's this spunky 72 yr old guy. A true playa.... Who do think took this picture of her in the evening gown???? It looks like a short person was taking the picture. Wake -up America!!!

Jackson,
You must be confusing Republicans with Barney frank.

NYT will print anything w/o checking it out. Even an e-mail from the Mayor of Paris...and then beg forgiveness.

So the story is that McCain's campaign aides thought he was having an affair with this lobbyist. The aides are not mentioned by name that I can find. This is just gossip. It is the cheapest shot in journalism: to claim that you are not repeating gossip, you are reporting that certain anonymous people believe some gossip – which is then repeated in detail. Whether it is true or not is irrelevant. The paper that reported it didn't care, McCain's staffers didn't care, and I certainly don't care. A roll in the hay is not anybody's business and its not news. Not having an affair is also not anybody's business and its not news either.

This should be interesting. Where is McCain's denial of the NYT story?

NO WONDER TODD PALIN STAYED WITH HIS WIFE.HE DID NOT TRUST JOHN MCCAIN WITH SARAH. COUNT HOW MANY TIMES MCCAIN HUGGED SARAH PALIN ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. THE OLD FELLOW WAS LOOKING AT HER REAR END SINCE THE FIRST DAY IN PHILADELPHIA.

Terry in Lakeland, FL said, "When did McCain cheat, it's a well known fact that he LEFT his wife when he started teh relationship. You have no facts, then again libs enver have facts they don't seem to need them."

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Honey, you need to get your facts straight. McCain cheated on his first wife with numerous women, not just Cindy. You can read a lot of information provided by the men who served in the military with him. Then, after his return, he began an affair with Cindy, while still married to his first wife. You can check that out too. Pres. Reagan and his wife were very upset with McCain for this affair. McCain and his first wife were still living together while he was carrying on his affair.

As a note – until the divorce is final, you are still married and sleeping with another woman IS an affair.

The NY Times attack on this woman and many other people without getting the facts first and the medias obvius bias in the last 8 years is why Jounalist are down there with Lawyers and Politicians on the lack of integrity

Robert,
Actually i read it, i was forced to every day for an entire semester. You seem my ultra liberal journalism professor required it instead of a text book. Which made me quickly change my major once i saw the state that jounalism in the country was headed to. And that was 8 years ago..... Sorry to burst your bubble but many of us think on our own without the help of "Rush" By the way have YOU ever listened to HIM?

JOHN MCCAIN LUST AFTER WOMEN WITH LONG HAIR. I THINK HE WAS LUSTING AFTER SARAH PALIN FROM THE FIRST DAY IN PHILADELPHIA. CHECK OUT YOUTUBE.CINDY,SARAH AND VICKI ALL HAVE LONG HAIR.

Give 'em Hell, Texas Teacher !
Give 'em Hell !

Larry C
Houston, Texas

Get as much money as you can from them. Hopefully you can bankrupt them. Wait, dont do that. The government will probably bail them out.

It looks like Texas Teacher is without a job so she is writing here stupid liberal agenda. If NYT goes bankrupt, Barack will bail them out because he like sot have these liberal newspapers around him for publicity. His Government will take of everything.

@Change. You're wrong. If it had been a Democrat the left wing media wouldn't have researched it, they wouldn't even print it. Remember, it took the National Inquirer to break the Edwards story. The MSM never eats their own young (other liberals).

She is a REAL gold-digger! What a piece of work.

Every one should know by now that New York Times has become Obama Times in 2008 including MSMBC and CNN.

Good luck CNN, my whole family don't want to watch news on your net work anymore except Lou Dobb!

Another lobbyist? Who cares? She looks like she may have lobbied for the Hookers Union though.

My gosh this chick needs some sun. She needs to be in Oahu with the Obamas.

You also have to remember McCain`s Character . He left his first Trophy wife because she had a car accident and no longer was Sexy to him She was a Model . Oh my she gained weight >>>>
War hero or not that doesn`t make him a Good person .He had no choice in being a prisoner .Every Human tries to survive ......
He replaced his first wife with a sexier and richer wife >>>>

hrmph....mistaken identidy, thats Cindy right?? poor John 72 years old and can't tell the difference. all i have to say is ... no wonder!

Texas Teacher:
What makes you think the Repubs put that Monica Coverup crap in the Media? It was to cover up the action in Los Alamos, N.M . Remember the Chinese Military with the computors and free entrance to the labs...? Huh? Where was Billy when 9-11 happened..? Huh?
Why did Bagman Brown's plane hit a mountain..? Huh? Wade

She does resemble Cindy Mc Cain so I`m inot really sure that story is incorrect ?????

New York Times,
Just pay the lady...Spread the Wealth...Clip another column from your daily paper...Down to five yet? Fifth Column....Hmmm!
Why don't you just purchase some carbon units from Al A Gore'? You owe the world some carbon units for that B.S. about Obama's support.
We all have been brainwashed by a different set of professors....Wade

Why didn't the NY Times aggressively investigate and report on Edwards' adulterous affair, cheating on his cancer-stricken wife?

If you're going to be a tabloid, at least be an unbiased one.

Where there's smoke, there is usually fire. I don't know about this lady but McCain has been known to dip his wick in foreign oil.

Oh, poor lobbyist.... you mean no one wants to take her contributions to their cause in order to support her Big Business Company? No one wants paid vacations to exotic islands... or weekends at well...anywhere expensive? My heart bleeds for this poor woman. Hel.... I mean heck... she might have to get a real job!

Sure is easy to pick out the Limbaugh audience in here...

Rush: "The NY Times is bad."

Sheep: "Ditto! Times Bad! Rush Good!"

Rush: "Good sheep."

I suspect NYT will seek to settle. We'll find out how angry this gal is if she insists on going to court or refuses a settlement that includes a non-disclosure clause.

She swears in the complaint that she never had a romantic or sexual relationship with McCain. If that is a lie, she is making a false statement to the court and could go to jail. Why would she take that risk? This is an aggressive, well argued suit, which is generally a stance people take when they feel truly wronged, not when they are just angling for advantage. I think the worst possible plaintiff to face must be a smart person with financial means who feels truly wronged. That is what the NYT has in this lobbiest. Can't say I blame her.

She has a lot going for her, including a lot of very revealing comments by NYT editors, including their public editor, who questioned whether this story should have been published.

When I read the complaint, my first conclusion is that this will certainly spell the end of the so-called 'public editor' function at newspapers. That is the guy who comments on the newspaper's coverage, supposedly from a neutral third-party pov. A lot of the big papers have toyed with this idea on and off. But if I were a newspaper public editor, or ombudsman or whatever they call it, I'd be looking hard for a job right now, as I predict no paper will continue such a post after their lawyers read this complaint. The NYT's public editor potentially worsened the paper's liability position.

Wendy.... yep.... the Repubs did everything but burn Clinton on the White House lawn....hoods and all! All those years... all our tax dollars..... Seriously... to prove the man was unfaithful to his wife! And through that whole witch hunt, Clinton left the country in good shape... not like Bush who has raped the nation in the name of making he and his cronies richer than they already were!

Only 20 more days until it is over... and we can begin to climb out of this hole the Repubs have dug us into. Obama is change.... that we need desparately!

Change Left... tsk tsk... I guess you were living under a rock through the last campaign!

That is all McCain... and especially Palin did through their campaigning. Seriously.... you have been spending WAY too much time listening to Limbaugh and Fox News. You are OUT of touch with reality, my poor dear!.

We the People voted for Obama to get away from the Republican style of politics.... as well as the Limbaugh/Fox News type of media mentality! Face it, 75% of All Americans are ready for the Republican Smear type tactics to end... ready to usher out G.W. Bush and Company! And that goes for both parties! Obama is the beginning of the change... and all I can say if, praise God!

Change is a comin'...... fasten your seat belt and get ready for the ride... or risk being left along the way with the Republican style of politics.... that good ole boy, ole time politics is on the WAY OUT!
Get on the wagon... or get run over at the GATE!

Hippies... for the last time... Billy the Sexual Predator was NOT impeached over sex... it was because he lied under oath in a grand jury investigation. ie the whole "high crimes" thing.

If he lied about his weight or eye color, it's still a lie... and if it's under oath, he committed an impeachable offense. Sorry, I didn't write the laws, I just insist they be enforced.

"I didn't think the article had substance, personally. This woman probably has a good case. But the NYT is still the best paper in country."

I'm gonna tell you right now, she is not going to win. No editor or writers are gonna write false stories without their sources. If there is some false information, then maybe but based on what I'm hearing, just because this woman's feelings got hurt she suing the Newspaper. And I don't even read the Times for crying out loud, let alone, I don't even read newspapers, LOL!!

If she did had an affair, then I don't know what she's going to fight about...

It's pretty bad when the National Enquirer scoops the vaunted Grey Lady... but then again, avoiding being scooped would actually require NYT journalists to actually GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND INVESTIGATE A STORY... (cough cough John Edwards baby-daddy cough cough).

With "motivated journalists" like this, Watergate would have never been uncovered and Nixon would have gotten away unscathed.

As for this McCain "scandal," why let facts stand in the way of a good story, eh? ...especially when it aides the MSM's push to install the first minority president. The Sixties are over, hippies, can we all get past race now?

True or not.... that is the McCain type of politics... we saw it all through the campaign. So in one way or another, one can only say.... "if the truth hurts, let it hurt." At some time or other in our lives, we all have to come to grips with that old saying.

She needs to eat some greens.

I'd tap that.

Love the hysterical vitriol directed at the NYT from boneheads that think Rush Windbag is a 'journalist' and Fox News is 'fair and balanced'. You folks need your heads examined.

Boy, I hope she nails them and tanks that failure of journalist interifty once and for all. As a lawyer, I'd take that case.

No matter what newspaper the story came from, if someone (man or woman) cheats WITH you, he/she will also cheat ON you
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When did McCain cheat, it's a well known fact that he LEFT his wife when he started teh relationship. You have no facts, then again libs enver have facts they don't seem to need them.

The New York Times is a joke of a paper. It's as simple as that. I consider them in the same category as the Enquirer.

As to how papers work, there's an older movie called "Absence of Malice" with Paul Newman and Sally Field, and it just about perfectly describes the lack of integrity so prevalent in journalism.

Everybody had already forgotten that incident. It is so old so lame and without any logical supporting fact by Ms. Iseman.

If I remember correctly, the NYT never suggested any sort of romantic relationship between this lady V. Iseman and Senator McCain. What it was stated by the paper was her proximity to the Senator and the connections and favors that could derive from such a close relationship.

Now, it appears that Ms. Iseman is trying to get a financial benefit from that connection; and that is the only valid reason she brought up the topic again. Everybody had already forgotten about her "business relationships and clients."

It should come as no shock that mcCain would cheat on a wife…he did it to the lady who waited out his POW time….Now that's a real man!
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He never cheated, he left his wife first. You left wing nuts need to get some facts...I mean come on, speaking one fact a year isn't going to kill you.

She won't get a dime. Kick rocks lady!

I can understand her sueing the NYT, but $27 mil is excessive.

Lawyers are always amazing. The suit is not about her reputation, it is about her "sense of personal self-worth". I think NYT definitely need a group of good lawyers to defend this case.

I would sue just because McCain is old,pale and wrinkly!

Vicki Iseman has gotten $27 million worth of publicity from the article.

Call it a draw.

Next case, your honor..............

It's funny to read some of the right wing neo con morons' comments. Why is it none of you were screaming and ranting when Karl Rove was telling lies about McCain when he ran against Bush? Guess it's okay to spead lies as long as it remains in the party. You're all nothing but a bunch of two bit hypocrites.

For all of you invoking Clinton's moral lapse, you seem to have forgotten something. Congressman Henry J. Hyde, who lead the Republican-dominated impeachment proceedings against Clinton, was himself an adulteror. He had an affair with a married woman when he was 42 and ruined her marriage. After this was brought to light, he brushed it off as "a youthful indiscretion". At age 42. I guess it only matters who throws the first stone. Is that right?

Did anyone here actually read the story? There was NO EVIDENCE to back up their accusation that McCain and this woman cheated together. This article was meant to damage the reputation of John McCain and I hope this woman gets every penny she is asking for!

Tom says "when we get rid of all the Republicans our nation will move forward". To where? Just today, another liberal tried to take God out of the Inauguration. Those idiots have already taken God out of School, out of court, out of public places. They have added over 1,000,000 new laws interfering with an American's right to live as he/she sees fit, they have added new taxes on top of old taxes, on top of older taxes. So tell me, just what nation is left to move anywhere?
Right on Democrats. Another ten years and I'll watch the demise of democracy and the implementation of whatever ends up taking its place.

For all of you invoking Clinton's moral lapse, you seem to have forgotten something. Congressman Henry J. Hyde, who lead the Republican-dominated impeachment proceedings against Clinton, was himself an adulteror. He had an affair with a married woman when he was 42 and ruined her marriage. After this was brought to light, he brushed it off as "a youthful indiscretion". At age 42. I guess it only matters who throws the first stone. Is that right?

who cares?

How many of the right-wing folk here knocking the NYT for being "a liberal rag," have ever read it? Or are they merely accepting Limbaugh's word for it? And would they level the same criticism at The Washington Times for being a "conservative rag?" Just wondering.

You have to remeber, Sen. Mccain had an affair with Cindy while he was still married to his first wife. He was quite open about it in his book and in past interviews. John Edwards also denied his affair for years before those picture came out and he didn't even have a history of adultery like Mccain does. Think about it. Also, this is the man who swore Palin was fit to be Vice President or even President during the campaign but afterwards said he's not sure he would vote for her.

McCain is an honorable man.

Good for her!

i hope the nyt fight this hardcore, we must stop all republicans no matter what they do.... time to stop them from destroying sowe can start rebuilding what they have destroyed.

This might actually be true. Men have "types" and this lady is very similar to his wife and ex....hmmmmm....

I don't blame her for sueing the NY Times. They made false statements of an affair that were not proven so their Messiah Obama could win the election. With their logic you could say their candidate has had affairs since he deals with female lobbyist and politicians too.
I hope she wins but her problem is the case will be in New York City where a democrat or their ally can do no wrong in a jurys eyes.

when we get rid of Republicans and Democrats our nation will move forward...

It's about time someone gave the New York TImes what they deserve.

The newspaper went on a liberal-partisan rampage this year, smearing McCain (and Hillary) and deifying Obama without any concern for facts or journalistic integrity.

Finally, the New York Times will learn the cost of their actions. (About $27 million)

I'm a liberal and I honestly don't give a crap whether McCain had a romantic relationship with this lobbyist or not. That's a red herring. What concerns me is whether McCain, as potential president of the USA, was too close to lobbyists in general, and overly beholden to them and/or susceptible to their influence. I haven't seen anything that refutes that. As to whether Iseman has a case, well, we'll find out! I would certainly be angry if a newspaper hinted that I had an affair with a public official when I didn't. I suspect the liability will come down to exactly what the Times said and how they said it.

Amazing how fast the rightwingers forget that it was McCains own people who admitted that they kept her away from McCain because of how it was looking.

If the high heeled shoe fits.....

Just sort of scary the resemblance of Cindy isn't it. McCain was unfaithful once, I wouldn't doubt this affair at all. And he didn't pick Palin because of her brains either.

Vicki Iseman and Sherry Johnston are entitled to their personal lives being protected as their own. Fellow Democrats or Liberals who take joy in attacking and insulting these people forget who look worse for having doing so. Cast the first stone if you are without sin or regret. Three fingers will point right back at you.

Why is everyone blaming the Democrats about this. They didn't print the story. And I totally agree with others who stated that the MEDIA and NOT only the NYT print these types of stories about others. They have you GUILTY before even that facts are out there. For an example: The woman who jumped to her death last week from the cruise ship that they started to blame the husband just because they had a domestic call about them in the past. Now her PARENTS are stated that they strongly believe their daughter committed SUICIDE because she had some MENTAL issues. Where is the apology from the MEDIA regarding this? They MEDIA should be sued for issuing these accusations. Enough of people did this they just might SHUT the heck up before judging them in the press...

If its legal go for it Vicki,cant wait to see the outcome.In the mean time im going to Alabama to get me a job at a foreign owned,slave labor car company.

Yet another one of McCain's bimbos....

lol, this "Vicki" looks like she has about $270 Million dollars worth on her. What's 27 Million to her? Pocket change?

Hmmm......considering that McCain DID cheat on his first wife to soon thereafter marry a millionaire beer heiress, there of course can be NO truth to the The Times piece.......hmmmm.

Noah: I've ready your posts on here before and you certainly are good at finding the Obama stories and spewing your hatred all over them.

As far as this story goes, maybe she did and maybe she didn't. I said it before about Clinton...a politician's indiscretions are really none of my business so I don't care as long as it isn't affecting me.

She definitely does look like his type though.

Great lookin' babe – Wouldn't blame ole' John boy for chasing after that if he did...

Good for her! The media manipulators substitute Fiction for facts and have failed to do their job consistently. Their corporate owners picked the "winning candidate"–and misogyny rules, as evident from the readers anti-Iseman comments here! Shame....

If Vicki Iseman's self worth can be damaged by a newpaper article, she must be mentally unhinged to begin with and should be closely monitored during a trial when everything she's ever said & done will be scrutinized. Had McCain won the election would this lawsuit see the light of day?

CNN: why is it that my commets are always awaiting moderation?

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Vicki: did you or did you not have a romantic or otherwise relationship with Senator McCain? That's question one. Secondly, did you or did you not use your relationship (in any shape or from) with Senator McCain, to further your business, or gain access on behalf of, or for any of your clients? The third question is: how does the article destroy the heart and soul of your professional identity and sense of personal self-worth? Unless you did not have any self-worth at all in the first place!

Once a cheater, always a cheater...... John McCain is way too old
to change his colors now.

He might not have cheated on her but he did cheat with Cindy. Must of maried Cindy for her personal self worth.

ahhh, the bitterness of Republicans, it uses to anger me now I just get a warm fuzzy. It feels good when your choice for President is in control.

uhh, you can't get sued if its true...can you?

Wouldn't surprise me if it was true. I'm sure her lawsuit will turn over all kinds of rocks.

Yet another one of McShame's bimbos running wild. Can't he keep them tame already? Just look at her, we all know she went THERE! She is now upset because he was the loser in the election. Had he become President, she would be bragging about it.

Even i as a liberal will admit the NYT has gone too far. Anyone who dafame's someone's character soly for the purpose of selling newspapers needs to be taught a lesson. One that they will hopefully never forget........now, if that could only be extended to fox.

Bimbo!

Good! John Mccain should also sue.

They look so good together; I thought they were very close? If it's too good to be true; it maybe true.

Go get a life woman! You want 27 Million for what; this is not Wall Street and no share of the 700 Billion.

Who the heck cares about politicians personal and sexual lives?!!? The NYT is just like any other paper in the country in that it's trying to survive and SELL PAPERS! It makes more money printing this irrelevant trash because this country eats it up...

I didn't care when Clinton did it, I don't care if McCain did it... Most great leaders probably have. Nothing but irrelevant distractions to the electorate...

Noah and David are idiots. Wow Richard, how did you see that coming? Because its true?

I hear lobbyists make alot of money selling their souls.Sounds like a great k street job when ever you get done stealing from the people for years.

this would not be the first time McCain has had an affair. Cindy his current wife was the other woman at one time

I WILL ONLY SAY --SEE HOW JOHN MCCAIN TREATED HIS FIRST WIFE WHILE HE WAS DATING HIS SECOND. THE OLD FELLOW IS A MEAT LOVER--TYPICAL REPUBLICAN--YOUNG AND OLD. NO SHAME, NO PRIDE,NO AMBITION.

Wait a minute, I thought the GOP was for tort reform?
I guess not when it's there turn to file a frivolous lawsuit.

Look in Webster's Dictionary under "hypocrisy", and you'll see a picture of the symbol of the Republican Party. If I had enough shoes, I would be throwing them at every Republican out there. "Family Values", my dyin' a$$!

I am with you sg, I hope this puts the NY Times under. Even the National Enquirer would not want to buy them.

Seems like a personal issue that no one, especially one posting on a website, is really qualified to interject their opinion.

Clinton was impeached for lying to investigators, lying under oath etc. Clinton was not impeached for being a jerk scounderal woman abuser puke.

Newspapers (and all media) needs to be held accountable for the scurilious words they print or utter.

Did anyone see the round table on MSNBC where Chris Mathews blasted the media for not sending teams of reporters to Chicago to investigate Obama last summer?

Wasn't he the guy that reported shivers up his leg after he heard Obama speak?

Hmmm..., Ms. Iseman looks kind of like Cindy McCain.

Actually, this will never go to trial. The 27 Million is a figure guaranteed to produce a settlement as opposed to trial.

Civil litigation will go on for about 2-3 years for discovery and if it goes to trial the NY Times will appeal, and that adds another 5-7 years.

She has a strong case. They will settle or NY Times will file bankruptcy.

This is not news. McCain has always been a Womanizer...ask Carol McCain!

Hmmm ... she could be Cindy McCain's daughter!

Please Noah, just like many repubs who spend their days on here bashing liberals and Obama 24/7.

I guess I could be considered a liberal, but I don't blame this woman, true or not, I could care less who sleeps with who.

Wendy,

Former President Clinton was impeached for commiting perjury, not for his indiscretions.

The liberal media had been way too far to legitimate everything for their own candidate during the election. I hope Ms. Iseman will win and give the lesson to other liberal media for what they had done during the election.

If Ms. Iseman wins, I think Senator McCain has the right to also sue NYT even much bigger because the damage that NYT has caused to the senator was much much bigger than Ms. Iseman's damage.

The NYT does not print without fact checking – if the facts are wrong then the Times was being lied to by all their sources?! Since they are standing by the story, this tells me that they feel they have credible facts and their sources believed there was something more going on.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time McCain's done this....such an honorable man.

Countdown until the crazy Right-Wingers blame the left for everything they don't like. Who has been in power the last 8 years? Are you better off now than 8 years ago?... Didn't think so!

The NYT was pro maverick [non conservative] McCain until it was apparent he had the nomination. The NYT then did all it could to sink him without regard to facts. They endorsed Obama as the education candidate but would not investigate his Annenberg activities in Chicago. NYT = dying partisan rag.

You notice that John McCain is not trying to sue them, he is probably the one who leaked the story......

Some of these comments crack me up...especially the person who thinks a $27 mil. law suit will force the NYT's into bankruptcy.

I'm still waiting for Pickens to pay out on his promise after the Swift Boat Attacks were proven false. Like the NYT or not, they're not known for running bogus stories...far less than most major papers.

The list of politicians guilty of what McCain was accused of is a mile long. I question why anyone cares.

Here we going taking the right and left side of anything political, lets wait for the outcome before we judge the NYT or V. Iseman. This name may ring a bell when a certain paper reported on him "JOHN EDWARDS" but it doesn't matter to the right or the left because people think their opinion is the only one that matters right.

Directed to the 11 people who have commented so far.

Oh hey, you unlocked the 'Add Comments", I thought 11 comments was pretty small.

So, why does she do this now instead of Nov 5?

Noah, David, Rohde, you're all the same person aren't you? Your posts suggest you graduated from a bible-thumper school. Your ignorance is so fundamental, it's that or you likely didn't make it through an accredited high school.

Too bad the Ayrian Nation compound in Sandpoint, Idaho was bulldozed, they would have given you a home there.

No matter what newspaper the story came from, if someone (man or woman) cheats WITH you, he/she will also cheat ON you. Mccain's advisors in 2000 should come out in public to confirm or deny this story. IMO, Vicki is looking for cold hard cash, but money can't restore her "sense of personal self-worth." That can only come from within. She's barking up the wrong tree. She need therapy to regain her "sense of personal self-worth."

This woman is a disgrace and should be run out of town along with all the right wing God clingers.

I wonder if any of you have even bothered to read the original article in the NYT. It does not say that she definitively had an affair. It says that McCain staffers feared there was a "perception" of impropriety.

Before commention, read the original article, idiots.

Sen McCain brought this on himself with his past record of womanizing. What does his first wife have to say? Anyone want to take a chance and ask her?

I believe them especially if theyre standing by it but i want to see proof lol. Ew who would want to be with MCCAIN- yuck x100

First question is WAS she romantically involved with him? We know he has a history...i.e., how he left wife 1 for the beer babe after wife 1 got messed up in a car accident.

I find this POSSIBLE ROMANTIC interest Funny as Hell!

To say that McCain is a "Romantic interest" of this younger pretty woman is laughable at best.

He's an OLD barely viagra man and she is a young woman who could do MUCH better!

Its laughable NOT damaging. NYT needs to stick to what IS wrong with America..not make stuff up!

Just scum tabloid writing that should be found in a paper like the National Inquirer... I am a lib and I think that trashing "private" citizens should be a crime (well I guess getting sued kinda makes it a crime, in a way)...

I HOPE THE LADY SUES NYT AND WINS THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET FOR THE WAY THEY TREATE SARAH PALIN. SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST VP OR PRES. FOR THE USA

If this statement is true,The lengthy report, which ran February 21, said McCain aides became so concerned about the relationship between the two that they blocked her access to the senator during his first campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Vicki Iseman is sueing the wrong she be sueing the McCain aide that blocked her access to the senator, not New York Times Company and writers and editors

Noah...go walk with a dinosaur you naive little twit

Maybe Mac got confused and thought she was Cindy.

hmmm... I thought republican geezers only liked 13 year old boys. Or other white guys.

This women was chasing the Big John and got caught. Now she is having issues of self worth. So I guess the $27 mill is suppose to improve her self worth? Conservatives are the only ones who hate the courts until there is money or a presidency in the balance. Suck it up Noah. She gets caught so now she gets paid? Sounds like white women privilege to me.

What a maverick.

Let's talk about the party of scandals and coverups:

Bill Clinton –

Whitewater – Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate – Filegate – Vince Fostergate – Whitewater Billing Recordsgate – Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate – Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate – Lippogate – Chinagate – The Lewinsky Affair – Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate – Kathleen Willeygate – Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate – Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate – Jaunita Broaddrick Gate – Lootergate – Pardongate
Charles Rangel – under indictment for inappropriate ways and means committee behavior
Tim Mahoney – admitted to affair in office
John Edwards – admitted to affair
Rod Blagojevich – attempted to sell senate seat
Barney Frank – admitted to having paid Stephen Gobie (a male prostitute) to have sex with him
Ted Kennedy – pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crime after killing his girlfriend by plunging a car off of a cliff and into the water
Eliot Spitzer – paid a prostitute to have sex with him/cheated on wife
The "Reverand" Jesse Jackson – admitted to affair and illegitimate child (maybe not so reverend)
The DNC – fined $719,000 for fundraising scandals in 1996 involving donations from China, Korea, and other foreign sources
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.

Wow...great party – the new party of ethics eh? NICE!!!

Pretty sure the far-left CNN wont post this!

The NYT should hire John Edwards as its attorney!

I would like to see more conservatives suing liberal establishments for spreading lies and propaganda.

considering mcshame left his crippled 1st wife for a multi-millionaire beer baroness, I wonder .... hhhmmm

Did the article break her legs, or arms or impair her sight or audition, or damage her brain and spoil her knowledge? Give me a freaking break here! That's ridiculous. She should get not a red penny.

Good for her. The press needs to realize that words have power and should not be written without honesty and thorough investigations.

I hope she wins. I am sick of seeing "Freedom of the Press" being abused. Newspapers are able to make outlandish claims, and then the retraction is in the bottom corner of page 8.

there is more to this story than john mcsame was telling. the ny times coulnd't have the balls the spill the whole beans...this what u get for cozying up to the right-wing nuts!

Yet ANOTHER example of how the left wing media decided that they were going to smear anyone who wasn't the great Obama.

It was totally utterly irresponsible of them to print something which wasn't validated. I'm sure that if it had been a Democrat with potential damage, they would have researched to the nth degree.

I hope that she wins and puts the NYT out of business!!!

Only in the paper are people guilty until proven innocent. And when they are found to be innocent, the paper rarely admits it and in most cases the damage is already done. It's a shame...

How can McCain pick it up? he looks too old and messed up, not even viagra would work for him. did the NY Times thought about it? i guess they are too stupid. Put them under, she has to win.

My cat would like to eat your bird.....

Well I'm a liberal and I'm not going to bash her. This is defamation of someone's character and if the story wasn't true, NYT shouldn't have printed it esp without lengthy fact checking.

To Wendy:

This isn't about McCain lying under oath, as Clinton did. He is not even involved in the suit. Typical of the liberal left to invent circumstances. I'm glad the NYT is being sued. Not that they will have the money to pay off when they lose. LOL Such a financially broke liberal rag!! HaHaha

Good for you. Get 'em.

Even though the New York times has now officially become nothing but a Gossip rag, filling the paper with biased views and personal opinions portraying that as news or fact, they are a NEWSPAPER, not a magazine and must be held accountable.

At least you can do it, unlike poiiticians falsely smeared and attacked can't seem to do it for fear of retaliation from the habitual smearing and lying papers that they are.

I would imagine that having the world find out she slept with a scumbag like John McCain probably didn't do much for "Ms. Isemans's professional identity and sense of self-worth," but it isn't the Times' fault that she did it.

I just wonder if she was as good at having McCain cheat as Cindy was............

I love it when those right wingers get their panties in a bunch. They are the same people who gloated over Clinton's "indiscretion." They never talk about the nasty politics of destruction the Republican party has used for the last 12 years....you guys live with blinders on.

It should come as no shock that mcCain would cheat on a wife...he did it to the lady who waited out his POW time....Now that's a real man!

I didn't think the article had substance, personally. This woman probably has a good case. But the NYT is still the best paper in country.

With 27 million, she'll be sitting pretty for the rest of her life....if she wins!!!

Kind of funny how the "crazy conservatives" have jumped all over this story in preparation for the "crazy liberals". Notice you comment on CNN and read the comments expecting an onslaught of "liberal craziness". So exactly who is the crazy one here? Most of us have moved on now that we can finally see the end of what our entire society has had to endure for the past 8 years. Isn't it time for you to check in with Rush and find out what you think today?

She has a valid point,you can see it on her head.Lets hope we can get to the bottom of this story.She looks like a very gifted woman,I can see why John was drawn to her.Its in her wide smile.

Since Bush will not be in office after Jan. 20, the NYT will loose a lot of readership. They have been a anti-Republican political rag for the last eight years. Now that the Dems hold total power, the NYT will have to find another bogyman or the Libs will have to find a rag that is even farther to the left.

wendy-the "Sexual Predator" in Chief was rightfully impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. It was the manicially partisian Congress that failed to remove him from office that ended up allowing Bush to be elected. That's the last 8 year legacy that the democrats have to live with. Sorry to burst the bubble of another liberal myth.

What makes the difference if she had an affair with him, or not ?
After so much time goes by, the issue will be gone....and she can go on with her life, no problem.........She probably should sue McCain, if she has any issue with him, because between him & his wife, they are worth hundreds of millions of dollars......remember ? 9 houses
and 15 automobiles ?

Larry C.
Houston Texas

when we get rid of all republicans our nation will move forward.

What is there to sue, that dump of a paper is going out of business. Might as well read US weekly. Its just like talk radio nobody cares what liberals have to say.

She looks like she has had 'work' done to her face and if she wins the lawsuit, she'll be rich. Seems to me she would be EXACTLY the type of woman McCain would go for.

Goodness, really? Extra marital affairs, children out of wedlock to two high school dropouts, secession of Alaska, KKK hatred filed rallies. Who would have thunk it from the republicans?

Hey, who could blame McCain?
She sure beats that dingbat from Alaska he picked.
BTW, didn't Juan first meet Bristol Palin about 40 weeks ago?
That would sure explain a lot.

So this gal is worth $27 million. Ok, we know now what she is worth.
Great. I like it when girls put a price tag on themselves so its easier to shop for girls like her.

To "Wendy":

She's suing the NYT b/c this story was proven to be false. That's why the NYT has lost it's credibility. Do some research next time before posting on here.

I guess we should just forget the fact that John McCain has a history of this type of behavior. The guy walked out on his first wife at the worst of times for another woman, his current wife matter of fact. Tells me all I need to know about the guy. Just can't dismiss that this may be true. What's the big deal anyway? McCain is yesterday's news. Don't we have an inaugeration to get ready for?

NY Times reports things Faux News like to turn a blind eye to.

Oh, and why are we surprised about McShame cheating on his wife? That's what he did to his first. Cindy deserves what she got for stealing another woman's husband.

Poor Vicki. You should have gone for Ice Man, not Maverick.

"The article destroyed the heart and soul of Ms. Iseman's professional identity and sense of personal self-worth."

you had to have issues prior to this article if this ONE article 'destroyed your sense of personal self-worth" Move on people, move on.....

I find it hard to believe that there another human who would sleep with John McCain. She might have a real good case.

Art Michaelson December 31st, 2008 10:24 am ET

Hey Art,

Does the name Bill Clinton ring any bells????

You want to talk about a midshipman who liked the ladies, lets hear about a former president that admitted to it.

Look, just take the poliics out of it...remove the "crazy liberal" tags and all the others on both sides....and look at this from a totally objective viewpoint....wrong is wrong no matter who does it

Andy – pray tell, how does your bird get access the New York Times in order to defecate on it? The sign of contempt probably loses its sting when you fork over your money for the rag in the first place.

This woman is just one on the list of many affairs that's how he finally ended up with Cindy.

What ever happened to the right's fight against frivilous lawsuits?

Are there ever comments to CNN articles that aren't based on arrogant cynicism?

This is a wait and see situation. If the story is true, it is true... If it is false, then and only then, shame on the NYT.

I agree that the NY Times is the worst newspaper, except for all others. I think some of the right wingers posting to this site are guilty of highly selective perception and are enraged that the Times' reporting challenges some of the beliefs they hold so dear. Of course the Times has screwed up at times, though hardly only in its reporting on right wingers. The Times is held to a higher standard and perhaps it should be, but it is just silly to call it "the most corrupt paper in Ameria." The Wall Street Journal editorial and opinion pages are much more obviously biased.

What a Bimbo truth hurts!!!!!!!

Wendy, the fact is there were grounds for impeachment. The Times was just trying to destroy McCain by using this woman. I hope she wins the suit, but with such corruptness abounding I doubt she will.

I'd rather be a crazy liberal than a blind Republican who still believes Bush was good for this country and committed no acts of treason. And I'm sure that loyal Republicans Noah and David never posted one negative thought about Obama or Hillary in the past year.

I bought the NYT once, and never again. The Times prints complete BS and is without a doubt the most corrupted, biased newspaper in American history.

Happy New Year

Well i am glad that she knows her "sense of personal self-worth." to be at worth 27 million. Mine is probably around 6 million.

This ought to be interesting! How far must one go to convince the public that it was Professor Plum, with the candlestick, in the Hall! This is simply a defense mechanism by the lady to release far more information that she wants to have released. This is not the National Enquirer here, so don't expect much for the lady but complete loss of faith and total lack of decorum. The truth will out!

Conservative, republican and GOP posters are so funny to me. They really don't know what Dems and liberals care about. Don't you know that January the 20th we will be swearing in a new and improved POTUS?!?
No, I have nothing negative to say about this woman's lawsuit or McCain. The Times is newspaper. I want them to be unbiased, give the news all facts, no hype, no spin. If I want that I'll go the editorials pages. Besides any time in media outlet runs a story that makes repugs look bad they call them liberal. (you make yourself look bad)
By the way that chic looks ALOT like Cindy McCain. I think McCain has a thing for blondes like Hugh Heffner.

Settle down….all of you to the right!!! What party made it their mission to impeach a president for improper conduct. This would be the pot calling the kettle black.
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Yes but Bill did cheat and then lied to the american people, In this case it's the NYT's that lied.

Actually I was flattered.

Fantastic, I hope she wins and bankrupts the Times. The Slobbering Love Affair with Barack New York Times.

Girl..take them to the cleaners!

This would sad but funny if it backfires on her.

usually where there's smoke there's fire, but money can cover a multitude of sins.

First of all Noah, please how about the people spending their days on this forum bashing libs/dems and Obama nonstop? Hate flows from both sides and you know it.

Second, I seriously could care less about who is sleeping with who and I don't blame this woman for suing.

@ NOAH......... why don't you go blog on the far-right-nut blogs?

HOPE WON.......HOPE WON.........HOPE WON.........HOPE WON........

My bird likes to crap on the New York Times

Noah+++It seems that you are good at it also.

Excellent points Noah & David, but stand by, you know you will soon be called an idiot and be attacked. The thugocracy is feeling heady right now.

To; Noah and David:

Of course you dont' to hear that being a possibility as McCain is such an honorable man right, well,if it's true it won't be McCain's first time will it....still, we'll have to wait and see.

I hope she wins the 27 million bucks and puts the NYT under. They'll have no one to blame but themselves.

Settle down....all of you to the right!!! What party made it their mission to impeach a president for improper conduct. This would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Talk to the old ballarina in South America who knew (?) McVain while he was a midshipman. It is just a fact that he always liked the LADIES maybe a little too much.

sense of personal self-worth? GIMME A BREAK

she's a lobbyist after all! but a victim just the same.... LOL

Noah, It is people like you that will continue to try to divide this nation with stupit comments like that. To you it is us and them, instead of US. Grow up. Before you accuse, read what you write, and then think before you blog. Happy New Year. And Grow up.

Business is business.

Noah......did you even WATCH the campaigns this year?

Who was bad mouthing WHO again?

Republicans never cease to amaze me....

I don't understand the comment by Noah, but as a self identified 'crazy Liberal', I would say the woman is seeking relief from the judiciary for a wrong that she believes was perpetrated against her. Access to the courts is one of the things that I love about my country.

As for bad mouthing Senator McCain, some of us spent more time supporting our candidate than tearing the other down. The measure of our success can be seen on Inauguration Day.

Fox news to me is the worst, most biased, self rightious media outlet in the country. I am a moderate and used to watch fox but now, i will rather watch the discovery channel. Atleast i will hear something positive and educative.

'...damaged her ... "sense of personal self-worth."'? McCain THAT detestable?

Good, She should have sued them for $100 million. It's about time someone held the NYT accountable for telling lies...it's not the first time they've be caught telling lies in order to sell papers, I think she should sue them for all the profit they made and then some.

Though I am a Democrat, I never believed this story. The timing of the story's release is questionable and only seemed probable because so many other poltical figures were encroached in scandal. It is not fair to accuse anyone of infidelity because the allegation in itself is extremely damaging even if the accused is innocent.

So is she mad because they talked about it or because she didnt do it? These people 9 times out of 10 sue because someone dared to print the truth about them. The crime itself, the unethical behavior, gets lost in the battle which is just what they want. They want to act badly and not have to answer for it. They want to do, what they want to do and have everyone look the other way......then make the people who tell on them into the criminal. It is always the guy who tells who ends up looking like the jerk....they want it that way.....so people will be reluctant to tell....but the truth really is....the guy who tells, who stands up and says what he/she knows to be the truth...is the real hero and these sleeze bags shouldnt be able to do their sleezy crap and have everyone turn their heads.

Hey Noah and David, I'm a liberal and could care less about McCain, his alleged affairs, Palin, ect.. and I love reading the NYT. I'm looking forward to Jan 20, 2009 and plan on looking towards the future and not living in the past like the other party. Happy New Year!

Vicki: did you or did you not have a romantic or otherwise relationship with Senator McCain? That's question one. Secondly, did you or did you not use your relationship (in any shape or from) with Senator McCain, to further your business, or gain access on behalf of, or for any of your clients? The third question is: how does the article destroy the heart and soul of your professional identity and sense of personal self-worth? Unless you did not have any self-worth at all in the first place!

My "personal sense of self worth" would have been adversely affected if I was accused of sleeping with John McCain too.

He couldn't keep his eyes off of Palin's butt and boobs either. It was sickening to watch. Why can't women have more respect for themselves and tell the old womanizer to stop it.

Dang!!!! They look so much alike, she and Cindy could be sisters...

Noah–are you familiar with the concept of projection? That's when you attribute to others your own characteristics. Certainly, there are some people who claim to be liberal who "bad mouth" John McCain. There are just as many who claim to be conservative who have written horrible things about the Obamas. The fact is that, by posting about the "crazy liberals" who you claim will start posting ugliness, you are doing exactly the same thing. Or do you believe that it's ok when it's you?

Good for her. Being slimed by the times has to make her skin crawl. I hope she is able to hold individuals personally responsible for the slander and it would be good to see the NY Slimes take an extra-ordinary financial hit over this.

The NY Times is corrupt and disgusting and should not be afforded the respect that an unbiased news organization should have.

Yellow journalism is becoming a way of the past and newspapers will disappear just like the Dinosaurs and they will be missed only by their advertisers. Yellow journalism has destroyed way to many lives and where they leave off, the television media such as FOX and CNN will take up the slack. How can we ever forget the days of OJ and all the women and children that have disappeared and the endless stories as if there was nothing else to talk about...endless drivel about negative stuff of little relevance.

3,2,1,.... Oh and a right wing paper NEVER exaggerated ANYTHING about a Democratic person...what a laugh!!! Oh and David, try reading the NY Post. That rag isn't worth the cheap paper it's printed on.

Really??????? An affair?????? Really?????? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Noah the crazy conservative who criticizes liberals before anything happens. Get a life

Noah...

Just like you are so good at hunting out the Obama stories to spew your hatred all over them?

As far as this story is concerned...innocent until proved guilty and all that, but she certainly looks like McCain's type.

the New York Times editorial staff has never claimed to be unbiased or honest, everyone is well aware of it.

It will be interesting to see what she does on the witness stand! Especially if the Times lawyers remind her of the definition of perjury before they ask her the "delicate" question of whether or not she had a relationship with McCain. If yes, then her case has no standing as the Times merely reported the truth. If no, then the Times better be prepared to pony up! If she refuses to answer, then the Times lawyers need to hammer away at her and drag up every questionable statement and relationship she ever had!

Who really believes this? Does it really matter if she did or didn't "sleep" with McCain? What job could it really affect? I'd like to know which jobs have been lost by the NYTimes article because I have trouble believing her problems getting a job. If the lobbyist job is a problem, then go back to school to learn another job if you need additional points on your resume. What about think tanks or other policy groups?

Countdown until the crazy Liberals who spend their entire days posting on this forum show up and start bad mouthing this lady and John McCain. That is what they are good at doing.

The NYT is the most corrupt newspaper in America.