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Update: McCain's FCC Remark
Jake Tapper over at ABC takes a look at John McCain's remark during this morning's press conference that we noted earlier.
And the McCain campaign tells him that when McCain said "the former chairman of the FCC at the time in 2000 said that was more than an appropriate role for me to play," he meant the then-former chairman, Reed Hundt (a frequent TPMCafe contributor) -- not the FCC chairman in 2000, William Kennard. Kennard, obviously, felt unduly pressured by the letter. Hundt, apparently, thought "nothing was objectionable."
As we noted in another post, the McCain camp has stretched to the limit of credibility in trying to downplay McCain's role in the Paxson letters. But certainly this meaning of the line would have substantially changed the way we approached our earlier post.
Josh
Zachary
Source documents would be helpful for both Hundt and Kennard's comments.
I'm finding McCain fans resistant to Kennard's disapproving comments, refusing even to accept the notion that he disapproved in even some measure. Why? Because what's shown on the NYTimes page is labeled as an excerpt. Who knows? Maybe at the top of the letter he noted that everything written below was in negativespeak.
February 21, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
the spin thats getting put on this everywhere is just ludicrous. in fact, a lobbyist's client gave McCain $20k and asked for his personal intervention on a matter before the FCC and got it. money, request, results.
February 22, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
>in fact, a lobbyist's client gave McCain $20k and
>asked for his personal intervention on a matter
>before the FCC and got it.
Wow, if that claim can be documented, it is quite d@mning to his credibility of being squeaky-clean. I, for one, would be most interested in seeing proof of this. Cites, if you please.
February 22, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink