McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

[Meshuga]

Published by the Phoenix New Times on November 29th, 1989 but worthy of a re-birth!

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal
rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate


By Tom Fitzpatrick

You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker.

Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

(...)

...Just keep telling everyone that it was your wife's money invested in that shopping center with Keating and that you knew nothing about it.

Keep saying that cynical newspaper people don't understand that every move you make has always been for the enrichment of Arizona . . . the education of our Native Americans on the reservations . . . for the love of the elderly in Sun City and Green Valley.

Keep telling them that it wasn't that you were bought off but that Charlie Keating got special help only because he was one of the biggest employers in the state.

Just keep sitting there and staring into the camera and denying that Keating bought you for money and jet plane trips and vacations.

So what if he gave you $112,000? Just keep smiling at the cameras and saying you did nothing wrong...

(...)

You're John McCain, clearly the guiltiest, most culpable and reprehensible of the Keating Five. But you know the power of television and you realize this is the only way you can possibly save your political career.


http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1

ON EDIT: I forgot to include the author's name. Doh!

[babylonsister]

1. Rec'd. Very worthy to repost; proves him to be the snake that he really is. nt

[Meshuga]

2. I really do hope this becomes an issue in October! n/t

[babylonsister]

3. Today would work, too. I do wish someone would bring up

McBush's complicity in this. Signed, forever hopeful.

[Overseas]

4. K&R -- to remember Charles Keating's central role in building John Sidney McCain III's career and

shaping the motto that drives his current campaign: COUNTRY CLUB FIRST !!

[LonelyLRLiberal]

5. I can't remember which show - but someone last night mentioned Keating Five.

This needs to be shouted - McCain has NO credibility when it comes to "cleaning up" anything to do with lying, cheating, greedy scumbags, since he IS one (and his son is one, too, via involvement with failed bank).

[Poiuyt]

6. It was Keith Olbermann

There may have been others, but that was the one I saw.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

7. Yes, I think it was on KO. Good for him. nt