Fluffing Cindy McCain

By Libby

Yet another fluffer of a profile piece on Cindy McCain in the WaPo. It was so similar to one they ran recently, I had to check the date and make sure I wasn't reading the same piece again. That's okay. I don't really care if the WaPo wants to make the case that Cindy Lou is the perfect Republican political wife but is it too much to ask that traditional journalists like Ms. Copeland learn to use the google? I mean, this is just irritating.

John McCain had much the same reaction at a party in Honolulu in 1979. He was working as a naval liaison to the Senate and, by some accounts, was separated from his wife, Carol Shepp, who'd raised their three children alone during her husband's 5 1/2 years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. (Years later, McCain would acknowledge what biographer Robert Timberg called "dalliances" after his return from war. In one of his autobiographies, he would attribute the collapse of his first marriage largely to "my own selfishness and immaturity.")

Emphasis mine. The only people saying McCain was already separated when he was courting Cindy are Ms. Copeland and McCain himself in his memoirs. The court documents tell the true story. "In fact, when McCain obtained a marriage license to marry Cindy, on March 6, 1980, he was still married to Carol — and would be for nearly a month longer."

The first Mrs. McCain isn't talking, but either Cindy knew he was still very much married while he was courting her, or John McCain lied and she believed him. Either way, journalistic ethics would dictate that this be made clear in any account of the current Mr. and Mrs. McCain's history.

Comments

[Robert Lewis]

See who the first wife of John McCain is working for now and who she contributed to

http://webofdeception.com/#carolsheppmccain

[Libby]

Interesting Robert.

[Dan]

Hi Libby. You made me realize we need a term for the female equivalent of fluffing, but I have no idea where to even start.