McCain Plays Fast & Loose With The Truth About Ethics

4:51 pm EST February 22nd, 2008 | News | 1 Comment

A Hole in McCain’s Defense?

“A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist.”

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Just hours after the Times’s story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff—and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. “No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC,” the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.

But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. “I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,” McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. “He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.”

Maverick!

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One Response to “McCain Plays Fast & Loose With The Truth About Ethics”

  1. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    February 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Is lying about ethics considered ironic?