’)The truth is… malleable.
Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson today contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf.
Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson’s quest to acquire a Pittsburgh television station.
Paxson also recalled that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, attended the meeting in McCain’s office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. “Was Vicki there? Probably,” Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post today. “The woman was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings.”
The recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided by McCain about two letters at the center of a controversy about the senator’s ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde & Fay.
A statement issued by the McCain campaign yesterday said that the senator had not met with Paxson or Iseman on the matter. “No representative of Paxson or Alcalde and Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC regarding this proceeding,” the statement said.
McCain lied? Holy shit!
Anyone surprised by this should go to the vet and get tutored.
10-1 McCain starts pretending he’s a member of the Bush administration soon. Pretty soon his responses will change to: “I don’t recall.” Then all his right wing defenders can drag out the Scooter Libby faulty memory defense.
Oh. Strike that. At his age I don’t think any supporter wants to talk about McCain having a faulty memory.
“Oh. Strike that. At his age I don’t think any supporter wants to talk about McCain having a faulty memory.”
That’s a good point. If he starts sounding evasive, it could hit him for being a typical politician, or it could hit him for being too old and starting to lose it upstairs.
Starting?