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NYT reporter lurks outside of school gates trying to exploit children for political ends. Cindy McCain’s lawyer “pushes back”:

These allegations and efforts to hurt Cindy have been a matter of public record for sixteen years. Cindy has been quite open and frank about her issues for all these years. Any further attempts to harass and injure her based on the information from Gosinski and Clark will be met with an appropriate response. While she may be in the public eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse and defame.

It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here.

I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here.

Emphasis mine. (the middle line about the dug dealer is getting the most emphasising elsewhere, but I think the bit about the poor relatives in Kenya (hey, he sent her a campaign sign!) is rather pertinent, no?)

(seriously tho, if you read the letter sent to the kid on Facebook, its whole tone and approach (we’re talking to young people here so we have to flatter them while talking in baby talk) is so smarmy.)

(I wonder if they haven’t played up the relatives in Kenya because that would point out that he’s not “African-American” but Kenyan-American, and that as the son of an immigrant he’s actually done quite well for himself in just one generation rather than having overcome the discrimination of history.) (or maybe he just doesn’t want to bump into any Muslim aunties since we’re all such rubes here we’d think she was a Saudi flight-student.)