Re: Holy Toledo!

A couple weeks ago on The Wire, as a couple of Baltimore police officers were manipulating crime scenes to get the city to pay attention to the city's murder problem, one of the characters who was central to the manipulation, McNulty, went to the press. He told the Baltimore Sun that there was a serial killer on the loose.

There was a scene where he was talking with the reporters in a bar, trying to demonstrate that the murders were a big story, and that the reporters should put it on page 1. The reporters said they needed "juicy" details. So McNulty said there was evidence of sexual activity. The next day, the story was on page 1.

It seems that this is what we have with this McCain Times story. It's a story because McCain has had relations with, and wrote letters on behalf of, lobbyists. The story is that McCain, the man who champions the cause of ending politicians' relationships with lobbyists, had, at the minimum, a professional relationship with lobbyists. But that story doesn't run on page 1. So they threw in some "juicy" details about sexual activity.