MRC/NB's Motley on FNC to Discuss NYT Hit Job on Cindy McCain

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The Media Research Center's Director of Communications and NewsBusters.org Contributing Editor Seton Motley appeared on the Fox News Channel's Fox News Live yesterday to discuss another New York Times hit job on the McCains, this one on wife Cindy.

Included in the Times outrages was co-author Jodi Kantor contacting friends of the McCains's youngest daughter Bridgette via Facebook email "trying to get a sense of what she is like as a mother."

Motley decries the Times sleazy, sub-tabloid tactics, points out their total fealty to Michelle Obama in a June profile and delineates the proper bounds to be observed in what is and is not fair game for the media regarding the spouses and families of candidates.


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Strength

As I mentioned in a post for another article, Cindy McCain kicked her addiction
to pain killers but Barry cannot kick his addiction to cigarettes.  What
does that say about Cindy vs. the Democrats' messiah?  I think Barry
cited the stress of campaigning as the reason why he cannot kick his cigarette
habit.  Maybe he doesn't know that it ain't gonna get any easier as
President.

"Fight the good fight every moment
It's your only way"  Triumph

As long as we are comparing

As long as we are comparing weaknesses, let's compare "stealing medication" to "stealing elections". Never mind that one of them is NOT a candidate, and the other is. Sheesh. 

"We just want truth, we want fairness. We want that balance." ~ Sarah Palin (re: hypocricy of the press)

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Among the multitude of

Among the multitude of things I hate about the NYT is that you have become a 'member' and login just to read one of their crap articles.

Something I refuse to do on principle. 

LOGIN

I didn't have to login and become a member to read this piece of crap article about Cindy McCain.  

You know, she sounds to me like a thousand other Washington wives. Betty Ford, from my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI, was an alcoholic for many years - because of the loneliness of a Capital Hill spouse and the vicious environment that Washington is.  Many Congressional spouses never move to Washington, and if she started out there being snubbed by the "rest of the wives" and had to contend with living in the real and virtual shadow of his first wife, I can understand why she might say "Screw this!" and move back home.  

And as far as their attempt to portray the McCain marriage as something less than happy, as I read the description (they like to take different kinds of vacations, he's not big on public displays of affection - like that ridiculous kiss from Al and Tipper Gore at the 2000 convention) heck, it sounds like MY marriage to a West Point grad, former career Green Beret, Vietnam Vet. And mine is NOT an unhappy marriage!

Nothing this article says about her is all that bad, but once again, the Times is true to its liberal agenda in the tone of the article which is nasty.

One Additional Thought

It's articles like this one in the Times that has made Cindy McCain shy away from life in Washington.  SHE is not the person running for President.  The NYT writes glowing articles about Michelle Obama, Vanity Fair does a cover on Joe Biden's wife and daughters and calls it "All the Vice President's Women" - a bit premature, don't you think?  But the liberal media try to portray Cindy as an unhappily married drug addict who is overly ambitious for her husband.  Disgusting.

Well, we ended up with Betty

Well, we ended up with Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse, so I guess we can look forward to the Michelle Obama Institute for Anger Management.

we ended up with

after the civil war, in the south, a lot of inexperienced people were placed in political offices they were totally unfit for thus setting back civil rights and reconciliation 150 years .. or more .. do we really want to try that again just for some liberal p.c. guilt trip about reparations ?

never look a gift skunk in the tail ..