By now, we’ve all heard that The New York Times has hinted that U.S. presidential candidate John McCain may have had an inappropriate romantic relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago. McCain denied this morning that he cheated on his wife Cindy, appearing with her at a press conference to insist: “I am very disappointed in the New York Times piece. It’s not true.” He also explained that he had spoken with Times Executive Editor Bill Keller in an attempt to set the record straight and persuade the paper to spike the story. Keller appears to have made the decision to run it.
This is where it gets interesting.
In a September 2006 New York magazine story, journalist Joe Hagan described the circumstances behind Keller’s marriage to his second wife, the French gin-namesake Emma Gilbey (who is also an ex-something of U.S. Senator John Kerry, but I digress…) and his divorce from National Public Radio reporter Ann Cooper.
Here’s the important bit from the 2006 New York piece:
… Keller wrote one last piece on South Africa, an article for the Times Magazine about Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie, in which he cited a book called The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela. The following week, the magazine published a letter by the book’s author [Emma Gilbey] …
After reading the letter, Keller called Gilbey, a British journalist living in New York, and asked her to coffee at the Times cafeteria. Gilbey, at the time, had a reputation as something of a power-dater; her exes included Senator John Kerry and Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. An affair ensued, which shocked Keller’s friends. “I felt bad for everyone involved,” says Stephen Engelberg, a former Times reporter. “This was not characteristic behavior at all. I wouldn’t pretend to be Bill’s psychologist, but he didn’t get a red sports car, so …”
… Two years after they met, Gilbey was pregnant, Keller was divorced from Cooper, and he had a new job as [Times] managing editor.
Glass houses. I’m just saying.
Um, didn’t McCain have loads of affairs on his first wife after he came back form Viet Nam?
haha that republican c— mccain got caught with his little nob in some slag
why are all Americans so fat and stupid anyway??
let the good times roll
But not like the glass skyscraper the entire GOP apparently lives in.
let me know when Keller runs for president
Keller is in many ways more powerful than the President because the Editor of the NYT remains in place for years. And, although, like many NYT informers, I am anonymous, I have personal knowledge that allegations of Keller’s affair are true. Children’s lives were hurt.
let me know when Keller runs for president
So, Bill Clinton really was unfit?
The New York Times is engaged in a mud-swigging against McCain?
Looks like it might helps McCain’s cause. After all, since the NWT is a Leftist Bastion, it almost give him a seal of approval from the Democratic side. Now the Conservative side of the Republican party can see them as one of theirs.
Yet more leftist-communist moonbattery! What else is new??
Children’s live were hurt!? When Daddy has an affair, the kids get more toys.
A well placed associate at the NYT, on condition of anonymity, of course, told me Keller got paid $500,000 to run the story.
Here come the partisans who blindly believe this ’story’.
Here we have 2 anonymous people who *think* something might have happened 10 years ago and HAVE NO EVIDENCE of it.
The result: the New York times runs it on the front page.
You Democrats still think the media isn’t biased?
Had an affair? Maybe. Did you see her pic? You gotta admit at least he has better taste in women than Clinton. Allegedly.
Doesn’t matter whether Keller had the affair (or not). The IRS is going to audit his tax returns for the last 7 years either way.
You’re playing in the big leagues now.
Keller maintains that the story was published because it showed Mccain deviating from his stand on lobbyists. By the same token, the public are well-justified in knowing about keller’s affairs too, since he is so sanctimonious about Mccain’s affairs. And is his affair with his mistress–who happened to be John Kerry’s ex–the reason why the NYT endorsed Kerry. We have a right to know.
BTW, I heard that Keller’s wife had cancer when he dumped her for a woman 15 years younger than him. And his mistress had a well-earned reputation for dating married guys. scums, both of them.
I don’t get it, Libtards loved Billy-Bob “B—job” Clinton for having affairs, so shouldn’t this be a credit to McCain in their eyes?