N.Y. Times under fire for McCain story: Critics question paper's suggestion that McCain had an inappropriate relationship with female lobbyist.

As near as I can tell, the gist of the NY Times story was that a couple of staffers thought that McCain was having an affair <i>back 8-10 years ago</i> but there is no proof and McCain and the woman both denied it.

Not exactly a major scandal. And the fact that the Times sat on the story for months (if not years), until McCain became the frontrunner, does tend to look like another example of "Republican hunting."

Heh. If anything, it could help dispel the Democrat argument that McCain is "too old" to be president if it turns out that he's getting it on with a young blonde thirty years his junior.