The latest chapter in the rapidly unfolding McCain/lobbyist scandal is a familiar one in Washington: pleas for more campaign money to combat a growing controversy.
Hillary Clinton did it when the Washington Post ran a saucy column about her womanly endowments, the Republicans did it multiple times to capitalise on perceived terrorist threats to the country, and now both McCain and the Republican national committee have used today's quasi-bombshell about the senator's relationship with a blonde lobbyist for a fundraising appeal.
The quest for cash comes with a canny image of the New York Times logo with a giant red slash through it and an accusation of "the mainstream media's clear liberal bias". If this ends with Ann Coulter and McCain linking arms to symbolically trash their copies of the Times while singing "Kumbaya", how many of us will have seen it coming?
