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Entry: Bill Keller Re-Unites GOP Coalition Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/bill_keller_re_unites_gop_coalition#18055 Post contents: I don't think the NYT publication of the lobbyist story was intended as a scheme by the NYT to help McCain rather it was an attempt to save face. TNR was set to go with its own story about NYT's suppression of the story and one of the reporters working on the lobbyist story at NYT was set to leave the paper for the Washington Post who was publishing their own story on this affair. This forced the NYT's hand. Besides McCain has pretty much the GOP nomination locked up anyway so publishing it now makes little difference politically. Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest of neocons talking heads know the NYT piece wasn't a smear. They are just looking for a pretext to support fellow neocon McCain after he discredited their supposed influence over the GOP electorate in the poor showing of their candidate, Mitt Romney, and McCain's failure to kowtow tow to the great Limbaugh. As for the NYT lobbyist story, I think NYT reporters make a good point that the holier-than-thou McCain looks like a big hypocrite. Isn't he the one who is always making a big deal about the "appearance of impropriety"? McCain clearly wrote that letter to the FCC on behalf of Paxson Comm. because of the influence of his lobbyist girlfriend. And there is evidence McCain may have lied under oath about his meeting with the Paxson Comm CEO. As for the adultery issue, it is well known that McCain has a history of womanizing and treated his first (and much older) wife like garbage, so it isn't too hard to imagine that he might have had some inappropriate relations with this young blonde lobbyist. Sent at: 2008 11 22