McCain and INFLUENCE PEDDLING

So everyone knows about the NYTimes non-story about the affair between John McCain and a certain lobbyist that turned out to be more insinuation than fact and how the pundits spun the story afterwards to make it about McCain and the influence peddling of lobbyists - but the pressing question in my mind at least - was WHY? Why go with a story that was custom made to accomplish exactly nothing given that McCain was their choice of Republican candidates and the fact that he had the nomination all but sealed . . . . What did they hope to accomplish with this non-story?

Enter Tony Rezko - personal friend of Barach Obama and Democratic fundraiser who just so happens to be on trial for what? INFLUENCE PEDDLING. Seems that Mr. Rezko - a Chicago entrepreneur and restaurateur - who toured Sen. Obama's Chicago Mansion with him before the purchase was made - and seems to have laundered the money which bought said mansion and his wife bought the plot of land next door and the sold him a 10 foot strip of land so that Mr. Obama could have a bigger garden - at a very DEEP discount.

How much coverage by the MSM have you seen of this issue? Do a search of New York Times and the names of the two parties and mansion on google and check out the results. The McCain story is going to be drug out by the leftist media during the general election any time they need to distract from Obama's connections to Mr. Rezko. Never mind that there is no truth to the McCain story - and TONS to the Rezko story. Since when did the facts matter to the NYTimes or the rest of the MSM? The impression will stand amongst the democratic base that McCain is guilty because the story was in the Times.