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thinkprogress.org - 8/21/2008

Media Defends McCain: It’s Not ‘A Huge Deal’ That He Doesn’t Know How Many Houses He Owns

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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said yesterday in an interview with Politico that he did not know how many houses he and his wife Cindy own. “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain said. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.” His staff has since said “the correct answer is at least four,” but the McCains actually own 7 ...

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skippy the bush kangaroo — who are clueless as to how many houses they own? sen. john mccain (r-az) said yesterday in an interview with politico that he did not know how many houses he and his wife cindy own. “i think — i’ll have my staff get to you,” mccain said. “it’s condominiums where — i’ll have them get to you.” his staff has since said “the correct answer is at least four,” but the mccains actually own 7 houses. - think progress

Stuck in the dog house(s)
Political Animal — ... he owns was that McCain's charge "reflects an existential reality," where Obama's charges "attack Cindy. She owns the homes. I thought he said the wives were off-limits." Does that make any sense at all? Mocking McCain for not knowing how many homes he owns, and tying this together with McCain's bizarre economic agenda, is necessarily an "attack" on the senator's wife? How very odd, even by McCain standards. Just to add a brief coda to this, Fox News' reaction to the story was especially entertaining : "Martha MacCallum justified McCain's comments, saying the reason he ...

McCain’s Media Shield Sets the Rule; Let’s See Them Apply It to Obama
Firedoglake — ... But when it comes to McCain, some media types already know the answer, so it's not a worthwhile question. ThinkProgress cites a few opinions on McCain's embarrasing housing collection: ...

About That Household Staff, Richie…
Firedoglake — ... to nearly six times the US median household income. Yet McCain's defenders in the elite media, the comfortably-well-off ones who passed on bogus GOP "elitism" smears used against the self-made Bill Clinton in the past and now pass on these same smears against the self-made Barack Obama in the present, think it's oh-so-unfair that these smear chickens have come home to roost to John Sidney McCain III, ...

Sen. Bond: Banks Provide ‘Too Much Information,’ So We Don’t Need Consumer Protection
Wonk Room — ... So, Sen. Bond, how many houses do you own? But more importantly, isn’t the fact that mortgage contracts are getting larger and more complex an argument for the creation of a consumer protection agency? It would seem that the overabundance of material would make it more likely that a consumer gets unwittingly ripped off. ...