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Article: Vicki Iseman, the lobbyist whose friendship with Sen. John McCain was the subject of an insinuendo-filled New York Times article last February, has filed suit against the Times for libel.(The Week)(Brief article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 26, 2009
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Vicki Iseman, the lobbyist whose friendship with Sen. John McCain was the subject of an insinuendo-filled New York Times article last February, has filed suit against the Times for libel. While we sympathize with Miss Iseman, she faces a difficult road ahead. In the first place, the story's very lameness, its hedging and arm's-length accusations, will work to the paper's benefit. Times lawyers will surely attempt to portray the lobbyist as a public figure, which would make a libel suit virtually impossible to win, and during discovery they will dig up the names of every co-worker she's ever smiled at and every classmate she flirted with in ...