<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/39fd3cfe-a112-4bb5-a630-2310fe73a3ce/8C79B9B4-4EDD-4F9E-AF3A-C34E132FE9C5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.concernedjournalists.org/mccain-times-ii-story-shifts" href="http://www.concernedjournalists.org/mccain-times-ii-story-shifts" style="font-size: 11px;">www.concernedjournalists.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concernedjournalists.org/mccain-times-ii-story-shifts"><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P>Friday’s wording seems to significantly recast both the proffered fact and dramatic tone of <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?hp">the original characterization</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concernedjournalists.org/mccain-times-ii-story-shifts"><EM>“A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.”<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.concernedjournalists.org/mccain-times-ii-story-shifts"><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P>This appears to be more than just a good writer’s attempt to say the same thing with fresh prose. A central point has simply been removed. In the original, the greatest insinuated fear is that McCain was having an affair – indisputably a conflict of interest (among other things). In the re-characterization, it is merely that Iseman’s ubiquity gave the appearance of a conflict of interest.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8C79B9B4-4EDD-4F9E-AF3A-C34E132FE9C5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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