By: E&P Staff The fallout from The New York Times bombshell linking John McCain will no doubt continue for quite some time. McCain, in responding to the Times, went on record with oral statements and his campaign released a lengthy written rebuttal. All of that is now grist for the media mill.
Michael Isikoff, the investigative writer for Newsweek and longtime McCain watcher, has come out with a report today that includes the following:
"Just hours after the Times' story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff--and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. 'No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC,' the campaign said in a statement emailed to reporters.
"But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. 'I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,' McCain said in the September 25, 2002 deposition obtained by Newsweek. 'He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint.'"
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