Alter: Media giving McCain a 'free ride' by ignoring Keating involvement

Nick Juliano and David Edwards
from The Raw Story
Published: Tuesday September 23, 2008

While John McCain and his aides can complain all they want about the treatment they've received in the press over the last few days, the Republican presidential candidate should be thankful that one unfortunate episode from his past hasn't reemerged on the nation's front pages, says Newsweek's Jonathan Alter.

McCain's involvement in the Keating Five scandal, during the Savings & Loan collapse that wreaked havoc on the economy in the late 1980s, has gone virtually unmentioned as the Arizona Senator tries to argue he can get America out of its current fiscal funk.

"It's crazy, but there has been very little about it in the press in the last few weeks," Alter told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Monday night. "McCain thinks he's getting a hard time, he's really getting a free ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial scandal in our country.

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