Guilt by association, that's the trick that the AP just pulled on the wife of GOP presidential candidate John McCain. In a story about the non-story du jour, AP writer Libby Quaid has placed Cindy McCain in with jilted political wives of the likes of Hillary Clinton, Suzanne Craig, Dina McGreevey, and Carlita Kilpatrick. They even reached back into the graveyard of political careers and dug up Lee Hart, wife of Donna Rice's paramour Gary Hart.
The AP got all weepy eyed over how Cindy McCain "did not hesitate" to step forward to take "her place in the history of political wives who stood by their men in the face of rumored or alleged marital infidelity." The AP then states her first lines as "Well, obviously I'm disappointed." AP thinks this is interesting because, "A coterie of wives has confronted the public pain of such an accusation. Smaller still is the band who, like Cindy McCain, have spoken out."
As the AP begins the story, you'd think that John McCain is exactly the same as Bill Clinton or Gary Hart... in other words guilty of screwin' around on his wife. Even the way they quote Cindy McCain could be taken as that she is "disappointed" in her husband if the reader stops there!
Then the AP's writer details the trials and tribulations of Hillary Clinton who's husband, Bill, "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica." Quaid tells us how Hillary stood firm beside her man, just like Cindy McCain.
And then they give us a list of other recently jilted political wives.
- Suzanne Craig stood silently as her husband, Larry, denied last summer that he had propositioned a man in the stall of an airport bathroom. Her expression was obscured by large sunglasses.
- Louisiana Rep. David Vitter apologized last summer after being linked to a Washington escort service. As reporters demanded to know whether he had any sexual relationship, his wife, Wendy, seized the podium, calling her husband "my best friend" and saying that forgiveness "is the right choice for me." Ironically, Wendy Vitter had predicted years ago that she would act more like knife-wielding Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary Clinton if her husband strayed.
- Carlita Kilpatrick, seated next to her husband, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, touched his knee as he publicly apologized to his family amid a scandal over intimate and sexually explicit text messages involving him and his top aide. "Yes, I am angry, I am hurt, and I am disappointed. But there is no question that I love my husband."
- Dina Matos McGreevey stood, obviously shell-shocked, next to her husband, then-Gov. McGreevey, as he announced in 2004 he was "a gay American" and would resign. He said later he stepped down rather than succumb to a $50 million blackmail threat from a male former lover. She wrote a tell-all book after they divorced.
- Lee Hart, after husband Gary Hart was linked to model Donna Rice during his presidential campaign, insisted to reporters in 1987: "When Gary says nothing happened, nothing happened."
Next the AP gives us the dubious analysis of one Stanley Renshon, who's equally dubious expertise is "political psychologist" at City University of New York. Renshon says:
"The allegation of infidelity is still a powerful allegation, and it remains powerful because it's about trust and responsibility, the idea that if you're cheating on your spouse, what can we expect of you in the presidency," he said.
But, wait. There is one major distinction between Cindy McCain and all these other long-suffering wives. THEIR husbands were GUILTY of infidelity!
For the AP to place Cindy McCain, for whom there isn't a shred of proof is married to a cheating husband, is quite misleading. The other wives that the AP mentioned stood beside husbands who they knew were cheaters, liars, and cads. Yet, Cindy McCain is standing next to her husband who is innocent of those charges as far as anyone can tell.
Even the original New York Times story detailing the tale of John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman does not come right out and say that there was a sexual relationship between the two, only that McCain's aides worried about the impression that there was such a relationship. And, if this story has not come out and been proven in the 8 years that everyone has known about it, doesn't that say something about how important this story is?
No, this is an absurd grouping of one wife married to an innocent man and a bunch of suffering wives married to serial cheaters. But, the AP had no problem with lumping Cindy McCain among wives of guilty husbands. It's bad enough that the McCain/Iseman story is all smoke and no fire in the first place, but for the AP to go after Cindy McCain like this is really is beyond the pale.
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When I watched Cindy McCain this morning,
February 21, 2008 - 19:56 ET by IamTinmanShe said she was disappointed all right, disappointed in the New York Times!
This is such a non-story, except that dealing with it may keep McCain from hammering on the democratic candidates. Right now they are too busy running against each other to deal with him so they have their surrogates at the NY Times carry their water for them. Too bad, it was once a great paper, now it's just another ratings hungry rag!
watch out
February 21, 2008 - 20:42 ET by dronetekWatch out, the MSM has gone in to "repeat until its ture" mode.
Yes, all those women were betrayed.
February 21, 2008 - 20:04 ET by WhoIsJohnGaltAnd so are the readers of that AP article. In fact, the writer, although he may not have printed anything technically incorrect, he betrayed the truth of the story, and he did so knowingly.
No one but the two involved in this story know the truth, but with no proof whatsoever, this should not be a story. I'm no fan of John McCain, but I do believe that he, as any other R or D in this situation deserves more than the benefit of the doubt, but deserves not to be accused publicly like this with no credible story to back up the accusations.
"The allegation of
February 21, 2008 - 20:12 ET by motherbelt"The allegation of infidelity is still a powerful allegation, and it remains powerful because it's about trust and responsibility, the idea that if you're cheating on your spouse, what can we expect of you in the presidency," he said.
Whoa!! Wait a minute!!! Back the truck up!!
Weren't we told, when Bill Clinton admitted he was messing around (no mere "allegation) in the Oval Office, in the house where he lived with his wife and daughter, that infidelity was a "personal matter" and had nothing to do with his performance as President? That, even if he was being "serviced" while discussing troop deployments on the phone, it didn't matter?
Now, all of a sudden, an allegation has ramifications on someone's fitness for the office?
It begins
February 21, 2008 - 22:02 ET by celatorThe deconstruction of McCain is upon us. As we predicted. It looks like the strategy is to get him to explode publically with his famous temper.
Liberal's Basic Rule For Discourse: I don't care if you agree with my premises, but I demand that you agree with my conclusions.
MAC & CINDY
February 21, 2008 - 23:24 ET by DarlaI couldn't agree more with the e-mail that you sent. Maybe something is wrong with me because I want TRUTH. I don't want to hear I THINK or YES MY BEST FRIEND TOLD ME THAT or DID YOU OVER HEAR THAT????? I WANT FACTS.Everyone is so fast to judge and spread the most bizarre story's without facts.I just wonder how much money the NYT'S got to print this fairytale? I DEMAND PROOF and the money behind the story.I heard this crap 8 years ago and their was no proof then.I thought newspaper's and journalist were not supposed to be biased.That's what I got for not thinking.I will once again,check out THE REAL TRUTH and be awfully careful about WHO I believe and search for better non biased places to look.
WTH, nice job
February 21, 2008 - 21:02 ET by Tom BlumerLumping in "rumored and alleged" with "actual" is beneath comtempt.
I so loathe AP and the fact that they're usually the first word for most national news reports.
Um, I don't know about "serial"
February 21, 2008 - 21:16 ET by sarcasmoBut to be fair, Cindy just might have known John McCain was still married to wife#1 when their relationship started, since he was cheating with her at the time. Additionally, all we've officially got on Sen. Larry Craig is that he's a serial denier of being bisexual -- he's just not an especially convincing one these days, in view of the facts!! The neverending "debate" between TM & me goes TM: "He's not gay." Me: "Yeah, he's bi!"
And when McCain got married to wife#2 (following the adultery) Sen. Gary Hart was a groomsman. 1 standard, folks. I know how bad many of you want Sen. McCain to be elected despite his past betrayals, but the only way you'll ever have a (very-minimal) chance of that is with honesty about every aspect of him. Even the betrayals, whether of conservativism in general or of wife#1 in particular.
JMR
A corruption-story the TV media will-not cover.
Remember George HW Bush was a horn dog too
February 21, 2008 - 21:28 ET by Lame CherryPeople need to remember that Pop Bush was a horn dog too according to the press.........remember he was nailing that spinster twin looker of the Silver Fox they were saying.
And Kitty Kelly had Nancy Reagan getting it from Frank Sinatra.
And you can visit the Jeff Rense archives and find George Bush has a homosexual whatever too.
I do not believe that John McCain was out tooling this telecom babe as he was hauling her around to parties......the reason is Cindy McCain is RICH. Her parents are RICH and connected. Connected in breaking one's knees, breaking one's career and breaking ones appendage, nailing it to the wall and never being able to use it again.
Those are the facts that the MSM fails to appreciate. They are wrong about as often as they are Monkey Business set up right.
There is a second reason I believe McCain this time. It would be political suicide in telling the world nothing happened and then have a picture show up of him in his BVD's doing the telecom dance in her bedroom.
Believe this following statement:
ALL OF WASHINGTON, DC is under constant satellite photography. NSA files this stuff by the reams in digital. Our satellites can spot bald headed old Senators and count their pimples now......think of Hubble pointed at your swimming pool.
They GPS track everything as a matter of national security and that includes all communication.
IF John McCain had been tooling the phone gal, Hillary Clinton would have indeed blackmailed him by now and McCain would not have even entered this race as the Clintons have tons of blackmail files. Ron Brown told his lawyer he refused to use com systems as the Clintons were listening to everything.
There is no way that Hillary would have let his big tuna get away. We have listening systems which pick up sounds off of windows...and that was 20 years ago. It is more advanced now.
John McCain has one mistress he pets every night. It is his ego and he wants to bed her in the White House.
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surveillance
February 21, 2008 - 22:32 ET by Wesenyea, if that's true, how come it didn't pick up Hillary offing Vince?
Oh, Lord!!
February 22, 2008 - 07:04 ET by sentforth5Poor Vince. God rest his soul.
Dinosaurs? Job Ch. 40
They Gotta Have A Case
February 21, 2008 - 22:52 ET by rammingspeedThe "deconstruction" of John McCain can only take place if he's got the baggage the MSM needs to do him. They've led off with a pathetic attempt in the NYT, followed by this trash from the AP. It's a different day, a lot different than when Slick Willie was in charge. There are places like newsbusters to balance them off. The MSM will make a martyr out of McCain if they don't watch out.
Rush sez
February 22, 2008 - 06:30 ET by sentforth5And I agree, that the word 'disappointed' for the most part is a word used for or of loved ones. The McLames are disappointed that their beloved NYT would treat them this way.
Rush always hits the nail right on the head.
UFO's? Ezekiel Ch.1
To be clear it was a caller
February 22, 2008 - 06:53 ET by Warner Todd HustonTo be clear it was a caller on Rush's show that first said that "disappointed" was a "lover's term." Rush told the guy he had a brilliant point. It was sometime in the first half hour of his last hour if I recall correctly.
I rarely get to listen to Rush, but I had the occasion to be able to yesterday when that exchange occurred.
I listen
February 22, 2008 - 07:01 ET by sentforth5while I work and did not realize that was a caller's point.I must have just walked in the room where the radio is...go figger...still, a great observation!
Where are the dead? 1 Thess. Ch.4
You losers listen to Rush Limbaugh?
February 22, 2008 - 08:30 ET byWhen I registered for this group I thought I'd get to read and discuss with some righties what they think about the media.
I now know all all that I need to know.
See ya!
Hate to tell ya you won't be missed Long Island Lib Man
February 22, 2008 - 08:35 ET by Dee BunkYou sound like a liberal pompas a*s who is incapable of understanding any political view not popularized by Hollywood.
Have fun talking amongst yourselves!
February 22, 2008 - 08:44 ET byDee, you don't even know me. But that's OK -- trust your laser-sharp instincts and go by what I "sound like" to you.
What's the matter? Did I hurt your liwwle feewings because RL is fat, disgusting, drug-addicted, hypocritical blowhard?
For people fed up with the liberal media you sure seem to consume a lot of it.
Bye now!
Yeah right now you are just a bitter lurker - how loser is that?
February 22, 2008 - 09:00 ET by Dee BunkYeah right - now you are just a bitter lurker - how loser is that?
How funny that you think you hurt my feelings. I don't even listen to Rush but there is nothing wrong with him. It's also very funny and ironic that you accuse me of not knowing you. You are so thick in the head. You just judged a whole group of people you don't know.
buh bye ; ) enjoy your lurking you insecure Hollywood dreamer
from a Virginia bluesman:
February 22, 2008 - 08:41 ET by sentforth5See ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!
lol sentforth - that was cute
February 22, 2008 - 08:43 ET by Dee Bunklol sentforth - that was cute
Heh!
February 22, 2008 - 09:07 ET by sentforth5People like that bring me right back to the 9th grade.Luv ya, Dee.
One week and two days to run
February 22, 2008 - 09:16 ET by Ruths husband BenOne week and two days to run a troll off. We can do better folks!
It's not only a lover's
February 22, 2008 - 07:05 ET by motherbeltIt's not only a lover's term, but parent's term when the kids go astray.
I never hear the "disappointed" line without thinking of whiny Tom Daschle.
Another thing that escapes liberals....
February 22, 2008 - 07:02 ET by NavyBuckeyeis the fact that a wife/husband is supposed to stand by thier spouse. Especially if there is no proof behind the allegations that are being brought forward by the outside party. Remember libs live in the world of hyphenation and when their spouse is in a tough place they just drop the last name and get a divorce. It's hard having some kind of moral fortitude so they just live with out any at all.
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter” - Thomas Jefferson
"widely rumored to be the inspiration for Flip/Flop John McCain"
August 19, 2008 - 17:04 ET by EdwardThe mRERcurial Jim Olson, who is widely rumRERd to be the inspiration for Flip/FlopRER John McCain.
“Make any statement that is so true that it has been staring us in the face all of our lives, and the whole world will rise up and passionately contradict you. If you don't withdraw and apologize, it will be the worse for you. But just tell a thundering silly lie, and a murmur of pleased assent will hum up from every quarter of the globe.” — George Bernard Shaw. Truths/Flips and Lies/Flops from the mRERcurial Jim Olson, who is widely rumRERd to be the inspiration for Flip/FlopRER John McCain.
Flip: In February 1982, the soon to be Mrs. & Mrs. James K. Olson meet at a Redwood High School basketball game in Larkspur, California when they are introduced by one of his band students. That student thought they just might like each other. The student, Kim Perrotis, was the daughter of Redwood’s Spanish teacher John Perrotis. Love at first site, the Olsons then live together as husband and wife happily ever after for the next 9 years. FlipRER Jim certified their husband and wife living together on their February 16, 1991 Lake Tahoe, California marriage certificate.
Flop: FlopRER Jim chose a HL California Confidential Marriage Certificate for their February 16, 1991 marriage.
Flip: FlipRER Jim and Mrs. Olson live happily ever after.
Flop: A month later FlopRER Jim files for a divorce and restraining order against Mrs. Olson, while FlipRER Jim continues sex with her.
Flip: FlipRER Jim withdraws his first divorce and first restraining order. FlipRER Jim and Mrs. Olson live happily ever after.
Flop: In 1992, while still Redwood High School’s Music Teacher FlopRER Jim has a variety of misconduct charges against him by his Dominican College student teacher Cindy Wood. FlopRER Jim files for a second divorce (FL 6764) and second restraining order making same allegations against Mrs. Olson while FlipRER Jim continues sex with her. Being tired of Flip/FlopRER Jim, Judge Michael Dufficy orders marital counseling.
Flip: Although the Marin courts have no record of it, FlipRER Jim says he withdrew his second divorce and second restraining order (FL 6764), and FlipRER Jim and Mrs. Olson live happily ever after.
Flop: A couple months later, August 31, 1992, FlopRER Jim files for a third divorce (FL 7442) and third restraining order making same allegations against Mrs. Olson while FlipRER Jim continues sex with her. Mrs. Olson found out when she came home from college to discover that FlopRER Jim had packed her up, moved all her things into their RV, rented a space at the college’s student housing’s trailer park, set up utilities, phone, and honey wagon, all in FlipRER Jim’s name. FlopRER Jim then had her served, but Flip RER Jim spent nights with her at student housing. When caught by lawyer Cora Lancelle, to divert attention, FlopRER Jim filed a false Twin Cities police report that his car had been stolen. FlopRER Jim “forgets” to tell the police that the woman he told them had stolen his car was his wife, that the car’s title is in both of their names so she can’t steal her own car, the insurance on that car is in both their names, and that the telephone number FlopRER Jim gave the police to contact her at is in FlipRER Jim’s name. When the police contact her, she proves all these points to the police. The police then tell FlopRER Jim filing a false police report is a misdemeanor. Mrs. Olson refuses further action against Flip/FlopRER Jim. The next morning FlopRER Jim calls the Twin Cities police to report he was driving in to work and saw his car off to the side and had recovered it undamaged. A miracle it was! Judge Michael Dufficy orders marital counseling. FlopRER Jim admits in counseling he keeps divorcing his wife as he enjoys the increasingly intense level of emotion and sex brought on each time as he forces her to repeatedly prove she really loves him. That he finds it exciting when she “fights” for him. That sounds like an entry for The BrooWaha Sex Survey.
Flip: FlipRER Jim then immediately sold the RV, moved his wife back to their Sausalito home. Mrs. Olson found out when she came home from college to find the RV gone and the student housing manager told her that her husband had removed it. FlipRER Jim withdraws his third divorce and third restraining order in March 1993. FlipRER Jim and Mrs. Olson live happily ever after.
Flop: Eighteen months later, in 1994, FlopRER Jim files for a fourth divorce and fourth restraining order with same wild and crazy stories against Mrs. Olson but doesn’t get restraining order as his credibility was a big fat zero with eeryone.
Flip: In July 1995, Mrs. Olson buys a house in Reno and moves there August 1995 with Judge Dufficy’s blessing who wishes her “best of luck with Jim.” In September 1995, FlipRER Jim, as expected, follows Mrs. Olson and reconciles with her for the fourth time in July 1996. FlipRER Jim says he withdrew his fourth divorce in July 1996. FlipRER Jim and Mrs. Olson live happily ever after. FlipRER Jim lives in Reno every other weekend, holidays and summers. Mr. & Mrs. Olson both wear their wedding rings, the Olsons tell friends and colleagues in Reno they are husband and wife. FlipRER Jim gets homeowners insurance in his name with him as the primary, certifies Mrs. Olson as his wife and puts her on as additional insured on the Reno house. March 2000, FlipRER Jim forges her Olson name in his purchase of a car in Marin County, California. Fall 2000 FlipRER Jim executes a Nevada Living Trust with Mrs. Olson, and signs his acknowledgement of their plan for his early retirement with monies she gave him and her future retirement back to Marin County in their home there. Mrs. Olson had learned and now made Flip/FlopRER Jim put everything in writing.
Flop: After 10 1/2 years of that time living happily after, with no Flops, now together 25 Flip/Flop years, in October 2006, Mrs. Olson gets a call from a woman that Flip/FlopRER Jim died. Seems Flip/Flop Jim had been Caught In A Double Life when Mrs. Olson sent him two $10,000 checks in September 2006. On October 19, 2006, FlopRER Jim wrote a letter to Mrs. Olson that he is married to someone else and has been for a couple years!?! In it, he also wrote he voided the two recent $10,000 checks that Mrs. Olson had sent him per his recent request. The ones that exposed his Double Life.
Flip: FlipRER Jim writes Mrs. Olson several love letters.
Flop: FlopRER Jim breaks into their Reno home after Mrs. Olson changed its locks. According to TMCCs Pat Slavin and TMCC police, FlopRER Jim also tried to break into Mrs. Olson’s TMCC locker. FlopRER Jim was desperate to get all his original signature agreements that Mrs. Olson had learned to make him do.
Flip: Through attorney Jill K. Whitbeck, a 2008 Reno Better Business Bureau member, in Spring 2007, the Nevada Mrs. Olson files for a divorce in Reno. FlipRER Jim hires Drama Queen of The First Order John Springgate, (a future Among Us story in his own right, and not a 2008 Reno Better Business Bureau member) for the Reno Mrs. Olson’s divorce from Flip/FlopRER Jim to be dismissed. That’s right. Dismissed. How ‘bout that? FlipRER Jim doesn’t want a divorce from the Reno Mrs. Olson!! Add to that FlipRER Jim admits in court papers that July 1996 he reconciled with Mrs. Olson in Reno.
Flop: FlopRER Jim obtains a default ro with a falsified service date and proceeds forward with his million dollar !!?? strike against Mrs. Olson for his stupidity for being caught as a bigamist.
Flip: In Summer 2007, FlipRER Jim is successful at getting Mrs. Olson’s divorce from him dismissed. Roger with Eagle Electric sees FlipRER Jim with Mrs. Olson happily together at their Reno home, further invalidating FlopRER Jim’s now known to be fraudulently obtained default ro.
Flop: FlopRER Jim . . .
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Flip: FlipRER Jim . . .
Inspired by Broosters Bill Friday, Hurricane Dean, Edward, and RER. Sources and further readings: Washoe District Court, Marin County (California) Superior Court, Reno Police Department reports, Twin Cities (California) Police reports, Sausalito (California) Police reports, Marin (County California) General Hospital medical reports, Now You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love), A List of Questions I Promise Not To Pose, Cheaters Among Us, Olson, California’s Legal Secret Marriage Racket, Get All Those Instructors You Can – Or Maybe Not, Bigamists Among Us, Olson.
The painting Lust is part of The Seven Deadly Sins by Mario Donizetti.
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Edward, you copy and paste
August 19, 2008 - 17:17 ET by bassndudeEdward, you copy and paste well. What is your point? Or do you have one?
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!