Blockbuster: McCain campaign manager took Freddie money up until last month
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 11:00am
The New York Times and Newsweek are reporting that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac as recently as last month, directly contradicting statements made by the entire campaign as late as Tuesday.
One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure contradicts a statement Sunday night by Mr. McCain that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had no involvement with the company for the last several years. Mr. Davis's firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae.
Rachel sat down with Newsweek's Michael Isikoff last night to talk about the revelations, including the fact that Davis appears to have been paid all this money for nothing other than his access to John McCain.
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How are we supposed to believe McCain will root out corruption in Washington when his campaign is run by the people doing all the corrupting?
What's even worse is that for the past two weeks, the McCain campaign has been trying to tie Obama to disgraced former Freddie Mac CEO Franklin Raines, arguing that their "relationship" (a single contact from an Obama campaign official that both parties deny amounted to anything) somehow taints Obama. Nevermind the fact that McCain's most senior campaign official was on Freddie's payroll as late as last month. The hypocrisy couldn't be more glaring.
I'm with Anonymous Liberal when he says:
"If Guinness gave out world records for political hypocrisy, this particular line of attack would have to make the book. It really is incredible."
UPDATE: (Nicole) DNC Rapid Response Manager Jesse Lee has more:
The two sources, who requested anonymity discussing sensitive information, told NEWSWEEK that Davis himself approached Freddie Mac in 2006 and asked for a new consulting arrangement that would allow his firm to continue to be paid. The arrangement was approved by Hollis McLoughlin, Freddie Mac's senior vice president for external relations, because 'he [Davis] was John McCain's campaign manager and it was felt you couldn't say no,' said one of the sources.
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thank you mcstupid, i mean, mcLIAR....
you are making this easier. thanks mcINSANE.
Whoops, McLiar got caught again.
it just gets crazier by the day doesn't it? what's next?
Ya know the real sad thing about McCain is this is the way of life for him. All I know if this was Obama the republicans would be bitching from the hightest building. How sad.
Some signs from yesterday:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/09/some-from-yesterday.html
Bay area again today. Anyone have any good 700 bilion dollar sign ideas?
Expose the Frauds. And keep doing it :)
Is it TIME yet?
Is anyone else getting sick of the disgustingly liberal bias that reality has??
It appears we have a new synonym for the "whopper" or outright obvious lie. We can now say: " that's a real McCain"
Why is it that McCain has such a big lead in ten RED states?
ANY question......who's going to run the country while
mcLiar remains in a 'cone of silence'.
Great! Now try to get the majority of the electorate to listen.
Nothing, absolutely nothing against Rachel and Michael but their voices are lost in the wind. Many people who are here now and who watch Rachel's show are only a small percentage of the voting public. MSM has to step up big time with MAJOR CAPITAL BANNER HEADLINES calling out Sen. McCain on all of this. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly isn't going to do it. I'm amazed that people still believe that Sen. Obama is not a Christian (to put that statement any other way only seems to make people believe he is not a Christian).
This story will have zero impact on the race. Nobody will care.
It just keeps getting better. After Graham,s statement we are a 'Nation of Whiners' or better yet we have a 'Mental Recession', McCains surrogates show themselves for what they are. Elitists who have no idea what it like to be middle class. Ferrina was a rep for HP. And they lost millions. Didn't stop her from collecting about 40 million while employees lost their jobs.
But will even stories like this make it through to the likely voters, who are still pushing McSame's numbers within 10 points of Obamas?
Is it simple racism? Blind party loyalty? Or wilful ignorance of the state of the world?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...
Meanwhile, another Politico writer, Ben Smith, wrote a tough piece declaring that several facts put forth by the McCain team in the same conference call were false. This inspired a McCain aide to state that Smith, like the Times, was "in the tank" for Obama.
In a piece later in the day, Politico pointed out that McCain is an avid reader of the Times and "has enjoyed a very friendly relationship with the paper and many of its biggest stars – as recently as 24 hours before the Schmidt attack."
Joe Klein at Time's Swampland joined in, writing that Schmidt has jumped the shark here: "[I]t should be remembered that Steve Schmidt is doing this for two (nefarious) reasons: 1. He's hoping to work the refs: if he complains enough about press bias, we mainstream sorts will cower, cringe and try to seek false equivalences between the two campaigns. 2. The more time we spend covering this nonsense, the less we'll spend on the real issues in this campaign."
Also, Sam Stein at Huffington Post pointed out that Team McCain has cited the discredited New York Times in at least 60 emails in its rapid-response messages to the media: "For a party that rails against the New York Times, the Republicans sure depend on the Grey Lady to score political points."
For a laugh, check out the FoxNews report on this subject. Their 15 paragraph story devotes 9 paragraphs to McCain's defense. It includes the McCain camp's escalated assault on the NYTimes.
It must be nice to have a big media conglomerate help you to spread lies.
John McCain - NOPE
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 10:
Because the people in those states are reality-challenged, low-information morons.
Thump! That was the sound of a Bible being smacked ...
scarlet p. @ 5:
How about $700 Billion LIES
They'll continue to state that he had no dealings with Freddie Mac.
"I said 'Thanks but no thanks' to the Bridge To Nowhere"
They lie.
BigIslandDave @ 18:
Knowledge is the work of the Devil and Libruls.
Republicans. Beyond hypocrisy, beneath contempt.
Johnny2Bad @ 13:
He could push his mother in a wheelchair down a set of stairs and it won't matter.
He was a POW.
$30K a month? And my sister makes chump change for looking after the elderly. Where do I tell her to send her resume?
lucid fiction @ 7:
1984 anyone?
Marvin@23, McCain actually did push a woman in a wheelchair. She was with a group of protesters who claim he didn't do enough for POW's. Eerie, huh?
MCkEATINGFIVE: "I'll be glad to have anyone examine that."
How are we supposed to believe McCain will root out corruption in Washington when his campaign is run by the people doing all the corrupting?
Newsflash for McCain....
If you really are going to clean up the corruption in washington ...as you claim.
Why not prove it right now by firing all the Lobbyist / Criminals running your campaign?
The problem is .....who do replace them with? More crooked republicant's?
I don't know how anybody can know absolutely that this story won't have any impact on the 'race'.
Big Surprise that another Reslug crook got busted for illegal pay-offs.
Oh, It gets even better than that....
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/home_ownership_r...
Like, wayyyy better......
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/2008-09-22_hoa_davis.jpg
John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis:
"We have an opportunity in the next decade to increase minority homeownership and significantly reduce the minority homeownership gap," Davis is quoted saying here. "The future of the housing market rests heavily on the economic success of minorities. Homeownership is likely to grow faster among minority Americans in the next decade if all the stakeholders in the housing industry work together to make it happen. The Homeownership Alliance is working toward this goal."
"Davis was president for several years of the Homeownership Alliance, an industry advocacy organization formed mainly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Alliance's core mission is to boost the number of mortgages granted".
We really need to clean washington out!
Johnny2bad@13
I knew eventually one of you McFraud apologists would crawl from under the bridge to attempt to justify the avalanche of bullshit coming from the GOP candidate(that the Nation is clearly rejecting). Normally you front runners only show up when you get some trivial news to pound on(lipstick, lapel pins, other fake single issues, etc.). Listen TROLL, it's not just one mistake by your man Grandpa, every time he opens his stupid, rusty mouth he makes a dumb, assinine comment. YOU SHOULD BE ANGRY WITH HIM.
How much lower can McCain go? Every day he shows us more ways.
The voters who still love and admire McCain are obviously racists. They will never vote for Obama because he is black. That is the sad truth we are facing in this country right now. These voters can't possibly be so stupid to think McCain/Palin (I shudder even writing their names) can run this country legally and in the right direction. The Republicans have shown and continue to show what they think about this country. It is all about themselves; how much will I gain, how much money will I get. Never if it is good for the country or the American people.
I can't get excited. I raced to cnn.com just KNOWING I would see this splashed on the front page. But instead I see "Biden, Obama helped keep 'Bridge to Nowhere' alive". Will these McCain stories ever go mainstream?
This doesn't surprise me one bit. In fact, this whole financial mess is sounding more and more like the lies that were told in the lead up to the Iraq war. Except this time, people like Paulson and Bernanke are talking financial instead of nuclear "mushroom clouds". Notice how forcefully they are pushing this massive bailout in Congress which they know will go right onto taxpayers backs? That is no accident and McCain will be right there to get his cut to that is for sure.
I'm not sure any of this matters at this point. If ever there was a time for Americans to take their civic duty seriously, this is the election....And yet, i am continuously reminded of how ignorant Americans are when asked to articulate why they are voting for a particular candidate. More often than not, we hear individuals recite misinformation or flat out falsehoods.
Let's hope the love affair between Palin and MSM is over. The woman has balls, or arrogance. Too state that there would only be photos of her meeting at the U.N. Conference is crazy. But then again I heard her husband actually stalked the ex-bother-in-law, so anything is possible.
This story, just like every other Team McCain whopper, will get no traction in the mainstream media.
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Shouldn't a "BLOCKBUSTER!" have more verifiability than "anonymous sources?"
P.D. @ 38:
I bet there will only be specific photos selected for the media to. They will throw out those photos of world leaders laughing when Palin makes a comment about how Russia invaded Georgia and took over Atlanta for example.
I like they say how he had nothing to do with it and he was on sabbatical. That might fly if Davis were merely an employee, but he owned the company.
Not to get too nit-picky, but the story does say it paid his firm and not Mr. Davis personally.
VK @ 35:
Yep. I was hoping to see live feed lying from Bernanke/Paulson today, but no go.
Please tell me this isn't surprising any more. How many more examples do we need?
Republican does X.
Republicans pin/accuse of/decry a Democrat of X.
Rinse and repeat. Again and again and again and again. Doesn't matter in the slightest about what.
Republican feeds his dog a Hershey bar? "Democrats hate animals and sicken dogs with chocolate. More on Fox in the Morning after the break."
Republican breaks his arm in a ski accident? "Democrats are weak and have no internal fortitude. They snap like twigs."
Republican caught in video, with subtitles and redubbing of voices thus proving authenticity and knowledge, blowing and being blown by lobbyists just before passing damning legislation that hands firms of lobbyists millions..."Democrats vote for special interests after accepting favors. News at 11."
Seriously. It's all Rove has and he wields it like a 3 year old with a hammer. It's clumsy and easy to spot but it's damn effective.
Start baying to the four corners of the Earth: "Any time you hear a Republican accusing a Democrat of ANYTHING...look into the Republican(s)...chances are..and here are the cites for the precedents...the REPUBLICANS ARE GUILTY OF SAID ACCUSATION!"
Rachel nails it at the end (so to speak). If Davis or anybody at his "former" company (the one with his name on the door) wasn't doing any work for Freddie Mac after 2006, WHY was his ("former") firm still taking money from them?
That's just outright thievery.
A follow-up to @45: "Former" counts for diddley to the power of squat with any bazillionaire's country club. Two words: Cheney. Halliburton. 'Nuff said.
Different Anonymous @ 46:
It was nothing more than the standard DC "insurance" payment.
But still, 6% of the voters will not vote for a black guy, regardless of the dishonesty of the white guy.
Just walking the dog @ 49:
yeah we know. some people like to bring this up
almost every thread......
And we need to ferret out those 6%, and recondition them.
And that 6% will deserve whatever they get if McCain is elected.
On last week's McLaughlin Report, Mort Zuckermanj, editor of us news and world report, ranted on about Barack receiving money from Fannie and Freddie, not mentioning the mccain connections. Zuckerman needs to be outed as a closet pro-McCain, probably due to Israeli political reasons. Email zuckerman c/o mclaughlin about this hypocrisy: comments@mclaughlin.com
Is it not odd though that on Monday O'Liarly had a big rant against the New York Times? McCain advisor Steve Schmidt complained: "Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today, not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Sen, McCain, attacks Gov. Palin, and excuses Sen. Obama".
Tuesday he had on Jon Meacham and ranted against the Far-Left Publication Newsweek. His main points were what he claims are the imbalance of columnists: 8 liberals and only 3 conservatives. He also singled out the Daily Kos guy, which is a hate site - is David Duke not available, he asks.
O'Liarly possibly does not know that the imbalance is because maybe only 3 out of every 11 know how to read, which is close to the percentage of die-hard Bush supporters.
Hey, can someone here--ANYONE-- tell me the source for this story? Not The New York Times, but their source. Cause it's all based on things they were told, right? Who are these people? ANYONE?
This is incredible. The 2008 campaign will be a case study in lies, propaganda and corruption for future generations. I pray that Americans see what McCain really is all about before Nov 5th...
Isn’t this typical Rovian strategy at it's finest though?
Blame your opponent of doing the exact thing that you are the guiltiest of doing?
That McCain fella is one stupid, stupid man.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
We've all met at least one person in life who will, literally, lie about anything. It doesn't matter if it's a big item or a small item, some people will lie just to be lying.
It also doesn't seem to matter to these people if the truth is easily checked and that they will be found out.
It appears that John McCain has come to be one of these people. It's easly provable that Davis' firm was doing nothing for Fannie and Freddie, yet receiving $15000 per month until last month. Yet, he goes on national television to deny this.
We've had a liar for the past 8 years who lied about some of the biggest issues facing the country, then brazened it out on other issues. McCain seems to feel that there is no downside to lying, even if you are exposed. That puts him in the same league as Bush and Cheney. They all need to be permanently retired from public life. They can sit around and lie to each other.
If the man with the greased palm is the one who can get things done
Then a teenaged boy with a greased palm should be able to get everything done.
Quick, look over there! It's a scary black preacher!
51 RH Potfry Says: But still, 6% of the voters will not vote for a black guy, regardless of the dishonesty of the white guy.
And we need to ferret out those 6%, and recondition them.
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They have split ends?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6oOxn1axw
Kathy in St. louis @ 60:
And what do we call all those "Christians" who ears these lies fall upon and still don't care? How about those white republicans and conservative Democrats who hear the lies and still want to vote against Obama because he's black, the truth be damned. Liars lie because they believe they have sympathetic or gullible ears. Shouldn't the blame be spread around?
Oh no... say it ain't so... another frickin' McPain lie!
Stickin' it to the Man!
You guys are missing the boat. Davis and McCain are populist heroes!
You would be right, it sure would look bad if this were a case of Davis taking money from Freddie Mac to get McCain to take positions favorable to Freddie. But that's not what happened. Davis took their money, but, of course, could not budge the Original Maverick from his rock-ribbed ballls-to-the-walls regulatory populism. Not that Davis would have wanted to do any such thing, so great is his own nearly Zapatista populism. So the two of them, far from doing the Man's bidding, conspired to stick it to the Man by taking his money while giving him the finger!
And that, my friends, is a fairy-tale you can believe in.
66 Glen Tomkins Says: Stickin’ it to the Man!
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Sounds kinda gay to me.
I hear some guys like a lady with a strap-on.
This guy is a real piece of work. I am an Arizonan and I am just disgusted with McLame and his buddy John Kyl too. I hope when this is all said and done Obama will be the victor and McLame will retire. I am sick of GOP lies and distortions.
Obama/Biden 08
This would be funny if this wasn't so disgusting.
McCain says:
"[...] and I'll be glad to have his record examined by anyone who wants to look at it."
As long as we can pre-screen you, force you to fly yourself to a different state to a private location, and let you look at it for 2 hours, no pictures.
Peter G @ 9:
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New American English :
Used Car Salesman : This car was kept in the garage all week every week except on Sundays when the old lady drove to church.
Customer : That's a Real McCain (noun)
Salesman : No, no. I'm not McCaining you. (verb)
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Wife : IT'S 11:45 p.m. !! Where were you ??
Husband : I had to work late.
Wife : What a McCain story (adjective)
Husband : Honey, I never speak McCainly (adverb)
poor McCain don't like gettin' busted, do he?
BaScOmBe hearts Rachel Maddow hates MSM @ 27:
I saw that and noticed that McCain has a 'tell', when he's lying he blinks like crazy as he's saying the lie and just after. I wonder if somebody/ies chronicly smacked him in the head when they caught him lying, it looks like it
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