McCain and the lobbyists

It makes one despair that the media dwell on the 'cherchez la femme' aspect of the 'New York Times' scoop that the senator from Arizona and shoe in for the Republican nomination for the presidency schagged Vicki Iseman, leaving the meat of McCain's troubles aside. It is a sad commentary on the press. It throws sand in viewers or readers eyes, blurring issues. Many in the press thought that it was distasteful to go after McCain for playing in someone else's bed, yet the 'Washington Post', 'Newsweek', 'The New Republic', among others, were hot on the senator's trail of a soiled passed. What is undeniable although McCain is on high moral horse of indignation, is that he dances to the tune of lobbies and powerful corporations who use elected official, willingly elected officals, for private gains. Had the press taken a leaf out of Ida Tarbell's book, it would have brought back to the laser eye of public scrutiny McCain's involvement with Charles Keating and the savings & loan scandal of the 1990's which almost cost this 'squeaky clean', 'straight talking' man his seat in congress. You've to look into the inside pages of newspapers to find proof positive that McCain wrote letters, strong letters with a not so shaded hint of threats, that he would fight any tightening of loopholes which wouldn't allow Paxson Communications its way in enlarging its growing grip on the public airwaves. McCain is now treading water to save himself, and the press is a willing accomplish for it talks endlessly on his May September frolic with Vicki Iseman but not really on the powers behind her to bribe a besotted senator now running for the presidenct of the US.