Lanny Davis sets the McCain lobbyist record straight

Lanny Davis, former Clinton White House special counsel and devout Hillary Clinton supporter, today at the Huffington Post:

I have direct knowledge of a part of the issue reported in today’s New York Times and Washington Post.

I was a lobbyist for one of the parties, WQED, a Pittsburgh public television station, which sought help from Senator John McCain with the FCC on its matter. The other two parties involved in this matter were Cornerstone Broadcasting and Paxson Broadcasting.

Bottom line: what was omitted from both the Times and the Post stories was that what I wanted Senator McCain to do, he refused to do. And he did so out of a concern of appearances of impropriety. That is a fact.

In the spring of 2000, I was quoted in the Washington Post stating that fact or something close to it when this story was first written - I believe shortly after Senator McCain had defeated then Governor Bush in the 2000 New Hampshire Primary.

I repeated that fact to a Washington Post reporter several weeks ago. I never heard from the New York Times, even though, as just stated, I was on-the-record in 2000 with the Post. Yet neither newspaper, for whatever reason, included that fact in either story.

I have no ax to grind on behalf of Senator McCain. I have a high regard for him and often say so when I do TV appearances to discuss the presidential campaign. I disagree with him on most issues - especially the Iraq War. I am known to be a pretty strong liberal Democrat. I do not plan on voting for Senator McCain for president.

I make this post only to set the record straight. Senator McCain did not include in his letter what we hoped he would.

Read it all. Needless to say, the HuffPo readers didn’t, based on the atrocious comments there. Just ignore that filth.

Okay, so the affair thing…that’s just ridiculous innuendo, and I don’t think anyone really buys that trash. Keating Five? Long ago deemed groundless, despite what the demagogues are saying this year (no doubt they don’t even remember that scandal from 20 years ago or care that McCain was cleared). The new “story” the Dems are trying to push is that he pressured the FCC because of his lobbyist connections. In fact, the DNC is flat-out lying about this non-story. Shocker. Er…not so much. Hilariously, left-wingers are howling about fundraising appeals going out. Please. These are the same tools asking for money because of Michelle Obama! (Good for me, but not for thee!) Even more hilariously, they’re wailing about the “politics of personal destruction,” because of Michelle Obama–as if that’s even close to the libelous trash being said about John McCain.

I guess the word of both Lanny Davis and Bob Bennett are now worthless among Democrats, as long as they aren’t joining in the attacks on Republicans. Funny how that works. These braying jackass (il)liberals have absolutely no shame or brains.

Speaking of fundraising, McCain apparently could use some money. PLEASE help out with what you can. Even if you can’t, don’t let these liars get away with this libelous garbage.


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