New York Times Reporter Trolling 16-Year-Olds On Facebook For Dirt On Cindy McCain

• October 19, 2008

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I saw on facebook that you went to Xavier, and if you don’t mind, I’d love to ask you some advice about a story. I’m a reporter at the New York Times, writing a profile of Cindy McCain, and we are trying to get a sense of what she is like as a mother. So I’m reaching out to fellow parents at her kids’ schools. My understanding is that some of her older kids went to Brophy/Xavier, but I’m trying to figure out what school her 16 year old daughter Bridget attends– and a few people said it was PCDS. Do you know if that’s right? Again, we’re not really reporting on the kids, just seeking some fellow parents who can talk about what Mrs. McCain is like.
Also, if you know anyone else who I should talk to– basically anyone who has encountered Mrs. McCain and might be able to share impressions– that would be great.
Thanks so much for any help you can give me.
Jodi Kantor
Political correspondent
New York Times
kantor@nytimes.com
212 556 4596

Pretty scummy stuff, and the McCain campaign is firing back noting that the New York Times never put any effort into figuring out who Barack Obama’s drug dealer was in college:

It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here.
I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here.

Mudslinging is par for the course with any political campaign, but it’s not exactly fair when supposedly objective reporters do the liberals’ mud-slinging for them.
Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald (while condemning the Times) says that “the right” doesn’t have any room to object to this sort of muckraking because they went after the Clinton and Edwards affairs. Marc Ambinder excerpts Greenwald approvingly.
Of course, there’s a bit of a difference between the two situations isn’t there? Diddling interns in the White House, and putting your mistress on your campaign staff while your wife battles cancer, aren’t exactly the actions of people with sound judgment. And isn’t sound judgment exactly the sort of thing we want in a leader?

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http://Array James

Spread the wealth is Obama’s Willy Horton!
Bat One

Jodi Kantor, huh?

I wonder if we can find out just who she’s been sleeping with these past few years, whether or not she’s ever had an abortion, who may have performed it and whether the US taxpayers subsidized the “procedure”, how many outstanding traffic tickets or warrants there may have been against her, what her credit score is, where her parents live, and who her friends and associates were when she was younger and what has become of each of them since?
Jerry

I think you’re right Bullwinkle.. It’s got to be pretty easy to find out what Cindy is like without digging that deep..

However, the following comment from above;

Obama will win McCain and then have to battle against financial crisis.

It’s looking better for McCain every day, “my friend”..
And, Obama’s his own walking, talking financial crisis with his Communistic plans for America.. Things will only get “much” worse with Obama in the White House..
And if you disagree with him, once he’s there, it looking more and more like he’ll have a legion of Thugs to keep the peace..
http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

Was she really fishing for dirt on Cindy McCain or her daughter Meghan?

Cindy has been a public for 20+ years so my money is on she was fishing for dirt on Meghan, under the guise of fishing for dirt on Cindy.
Sara Dependon

I have seen many lows in this campaign from the media, TV and print. However, if this is today’s journalism then I am glad that my children opted out of the programs at college.
A new all time low for the esteemed New York Times. With McCain closing the gap on Obama they are now attacking Cindy McCain. When ex-esteemed media like MSNBC, NBS, CNN, CBS, and newsprint like the infamous New York Times try to get their ratings up, they only fall lower and lower till they are in the gutters. And to think they represent America — a country where FREEDOM is hard won by our troops throughout history, and a nation that prides itself on the country’s integrity by “monitoring other countries and their elections”. What a sad commentary on our great nation and kind of a joke when we have to monitor our own elections for voter fraud! It’s fall and the ACORNS are being gathered for sure.
Does anyone recall IF this rabid media sources EVER asked Obama any questions about his experience??? Oh no, they were taken up by his charm, charisma and hypnotic talk. You have to look at Katie Couric’s face filled with adoration, when she questions Obama, and the difference when she questions McCain. That tells it all. This seems like we are back to the David Koresh days or the Jim Jones followers………….. well the Obama people are sure sipping the cool aid and soon will be drinking it when they realize that America is a satellite nation to Russia and Venezuela, because this is where we will be under Obama.
And to think I stood up for a blogger who called Michelle Obama a “monkey in a red Christmas dress” after the Tom Brokaw debate, responding that unkind words were not necessary. So while Obama wants to lock Michelle and his kids in the ivory tower, Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain and McCain’s personal life, his health (cancer) are fair game? Cindy who is called a Barbie Doll is what every single girl in America WANTS, unless you are the daughter of a NY Times Editor or staff member! Michelle Obama is the angry hateful person that people DO NOT WANT representing their country. Jackie-O — give me a break Caroline Kennedy!! Your dead mother must be turning in her grave.
You don’t need a college degree from a fancy or non-fancy school, just plain good old common sense. It is time for all DECENT CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY to write to the New York Times and protest this despicable article and the despicable writers. I am sure they all have wives and daughters and what they do now will come back as karma to them. NBC/MSNBC has already felt the karma hit them, and karma can be an itch till you have paid the price…….and the good old adage “what goes around comes around”…… well the media need to keep this in mind, especially the writers and anchors who dabble in the despicable.
So Kitty Bennett and Mark Leibovich you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Go take a shower you are covered in scum.
Oh, by the way do you have any CHARITABLE contributions to Darfur or any African country that Michele Obama has taken part in like Cindy McCain has? Not the elitist sitting on the Board of a Childrens’ Hospital – real rolling up your sleeves and working in the fields of Africa? Do let your readers know. IF all Barbies, black or white could do half the charitable work Cindy McCain has done, do let our nation know this fact too. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.
http://avenidacentral.blogspot.com/ Pedro Morgado

It’s time to decide . Obama will win McCain and then have to battle against financial crisis.
b

Could any Obama supporters (i.e. members of the press) point me to the facebook wall posts Ms Kantor or other NYT reporters have left on the pages of Barack or Michelle’s former classmates? Have the intense investigations at the Obama girls’ school yielded any damaging information? Has anyone been able to locate Barack’s drug dealer?

But then I should remember, as Mr Hoyt has recently instructed, that the NYT is not in fact biased, rather I am projecting my biases onto their coverage and seeing a leftist, Marxist bent where really there is nothing but straight reporting.
Jdestro

Of course, there’s a bit of a difference between the two situations isn’t there?

A difference which you don’t mention is that “the right” which went after Clinton consisted of things like the American Spectator, a self-declared conservative magazine. The people digging up dirt on McCain and Palin are not “The Nation”, but the NYT, WaPo, and the rest of the supposedly impartial and unbiased MSM.

So Greenwald and Armbinder are conceding that the MSM are the functional left-wing equal of the American Spectator. Which is true, of course, but it’s refreshing to see people on the left admitting it, even if accidently.
di butler

Is this a picture of Kantor? Is she a man? She looks like a hairy little man. I thought King Obama decreed, “Families are off-limits!” Did his shills at NYT not get the message? Best way to hurt the NYT and MSM, don’t buy the paper, don’t watch their shows.

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