[ChristopherHall]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Bob Bennett, a high-profile Democratic attorney who represented former President Bill Clinton during the Paula Jones scandal and has investigated McCain’s Senate Ethics activities said the story was “shameless, just shameless” on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" Wednesday night.

Bennett said, “I'm in a pretty unique position to talk about John McCain. First, I should tell your listeners I'm a registered Democrat, so I'm not on his side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five, which, by the way, this ‘New York Times’ article goes back to and discusses, goes back years and years. And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest and honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him, and I think for the ‘New York Times’ to dig this up just shows that Senator McCain's public statement about this is correct. It's a smear job. I'm sorry.”

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/A...new_york_times

I agree. It's a smear job. Nothing of substance can be verified.

But I think McCain could benefit somewhat from this. It certainly takes the press' attention off Obama and Hillary. McCain's campaign might want to lead a push for press reform in how things are reported during the campaign. For example, when CBS anchor man Dan Rather reported false information about Bush's National Guard activities, it too blew up in their face. The Bush campaign used that to capitalize on pushing for greater accuracy in reporting during the election and the pressure applied to CBS lead to Dan Rather resigning and a big shakeup at CBS. I think this could be used to make some major changes with the New York Times and make the press more careful during this election season...if McCain knows how to cash in on it.

Just my thoughts.