It’s time to say it. Keating Five.
Last night Jonathan Alter debunked McCain’s whine that the press is picking on him.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTniK95Vfhs[/youtube]
So far the press has given McCain a pass on his role in the last financial crisis. It’s time to break the silence. McCain = Keating Five.
Tags: 2008 Presidential, John McCain
“McCain = Keating Five”
Wait, John McCain was on ‘Family Ties’?????
I don’t remember that episode. Was that before or after they added the cursory little tyke?
The press gives him a pass because the Keating Five business is part of the McCain mythology. The problem is — like many contemporary myths — it is pretty shallow. He emerged from all of that ready to deal with campaign finance reform (the rules of which he is delighted to bypass when he needs to) but not ready to regulate the financial institutions interested in buying his vote.
McCain is up to his eyeballs with lobbyists, banks, insurance companies, credit card companies…same as McCastle.