It’s not enough for America’s “newspaper of wretched” to smear John McCain and Sarah Palin. In an October 18 “news” story, it went after the candidate’s wife, Cindy McCain.
In the guise of a profile piece, The Times rehashed Mrs. McCain’s past addiction to pain-killers – a story that was old news 20 years ago.
It also reported that John and Cindy spend much of their time apart – he in Washington, she in their Arizona home. This is so common for Congressmen and their wives that’s it’s hardly worth noting. But The Times does so in such a way as to insinuate that there’s a problem with their marriage.
Jodi Cantor, co-author of the profile, even tried to contact a friend of the McCains’ 16-year-old daughter, to see what dirt she could dig up on the family.
The Times barely noted Cindy McCain’s charitable work, bringing much-needed medical supplies to some of the most dangerous corners of the world, except to charge that the McCain campaign misrepresented one of Cindy’s visits to Bangladesh.
Michael Goldfarb, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, charged, “The New York Times has stooped lower than this campaign ever imagined possible in an attempt to discredit a woman whose only apparent sin is being married to the man that would oppose that paper’s preferred candidate, Barack Obama, in his quest for the presidency.”
We will wait in vain for The Times to unleash its investigative pit bulls on the personal lives of Barack and Michelle Obama, including: 1. Who supplied Obama with drugs when he was an addict? 2. What substances did he use besides cocaine? 3. When did his addiction end? Was he still doing drugs as an Illinois state senator? 4. Why has “Mr. Compassion” done nothing to help his poor relatives in Kenya? 5. How close is Michelle to former terrorist Bernardine Dohrn? And 6. How did the “black power” ideology Michelle embraced as an undergraduate at Princeton – combined with 19 years of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons – shape her attitudes toward America and white people?
How low will The New York Times go to trash John McCain and his wife Cindy? Think the bellies of snakes – lower than which you cannot go.
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