23 March 2008

Keating Five Redux? Don't Think So

I am not a fan of John McCain.  Not at all.  I am less a fan of the MSM and hate dishonest smears against anyone., even those I disagree with politically.

McCain wrote two letters in late 1999 to the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of Florida-based Paxson Communications. He urged quick consideration of a proposal to buy a television station license in Pittsburgh, although he did not ask the FCC commissioners to approve the proposal. At the time, one FCC commissioner's formal nomination was pending before McCain's Senate committee, and the FCC chairman complained that McCain's letters were improper.

Why was it improper?  Because the FCC chairman felt pressured to do his job?  I think that's an appropriate use of Senatorial influence.  Telling someone it's time to make a decision is much different than telling them what the decision will/should be.

So who was this FCC Chairman?  According to wiki, it was
William E. Kennard, a Democrat from California who is now a member of the Board of Directors of Sprint Nextel Corporation,  The New York Times Company, Hawaiian Telcom and Insight Communications.  Funny how that "reaching across the aisle" only works one way, isn't it?  Democrats are all about the "bipartisanship" when Republicans do the reaching... the other way, not so much.

I've got to give McCain a pass on this.  The Keating Five scandal is still his to own however.

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