McCain's campaign manager still on the Freddie payroll.
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was definitely still on the Freddie Mac payroll, (NYTimes, RollCall, WaPo.)
From the reporting it's becoming clearer and clearer that he wasn't doing any actual work for that money which means it was just "pay for access" which is about as slimy as it gets.
So, McCain's campaign manager was semi-secretly taking millions just to whisper in John McCain's ear. That's a story, right?
From the reporting it's becoming clearer and clearer that he wasn't doing any actual work for that money which means it was just "pay for access" which is about as slimy as it gets.
They said Mr. Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, had been kept on the payroll because of his close ties to Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who by 2006 was widely expected to run again for the White House.
Mr. Davis took a leave from Davis Manafort for the presidential campaign, but as an equity holder continues to benefit from its income. No one at Davis Manafort other than Mr. Davis was involved in efforts on Freddie Mac’s behalf, the people familiar with the arrangement said.
So, McCain's campaign manager was semi-secretly taking millions just to whisper in John McCain's ear. That's a story, right?
posted by mikevotes at
9:41 PM
2 Comments:
Yes, it's a story. It may even be criminal. But it's also a story, like so many others in the last 8 years, that will be invisible to the eyes of conservatives, because it isn't congruent with their views.
They see conservatism as a stalwart, clean, hard-eyed army holding the fort against the chaotic hordes of loplolly liberals, and since this doesn't support their self-image, it'll be ignored.
It works both ways, of course. I find myself often thinking that logic rules no one's life; that we're all prey to wishful thinking. In this election, most of us have already made up our minds.
In my own case, even if I didn't have solid reasons to vote for Obama and against McCain, I can look at McCain's flat-aspect face and find my decision made for me. I was watching him on the tube this evening, and noticed that his eyes somehow weren't reflecting light.
Again, no real logic there. My mind is already made up.
I also sometimes see liberals and conservatives as two sides of a tug-of-war. The liberals are on the leading edge of history, pulling more-or-less forward, the mainstream population is in the middle, not pulling at all, and the conservatives are at the back end with their heels dug in.
But I digress...
I'll be watching this Davis story with interest.
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r8r, at 10:20 PM
Technically, I don't think it's criminal, but it is very sleazy, and either McCain knew and he's sleazy, too, or he didn't, and he surrounded himself with a spy.
And you hit a really important point, that we all have election "beergoggles" where we don't see the flaws in our own candidates. We don't. Plus, you've got the niche media offering support for that viewpoint. (I don't think FoxNews leads with this story for instance.)
However, stuff like this can affect the broader tone of coverage and infiltrate into the characterizations of the candidates. In this example, McCain becomes more insidery, and the new claims of pro-regulation/anti-Washington aren't reported with the same credulity.
Alot of this stuff is important because it affects the media, and that puts a shading tinge on a whole lot of stuff. You know?
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mikevotes, at 10:33 PM
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