LOTHM,

I’m glad you posted the “money passage” on the Keating Five, as the details had gotten kind of murky for me.

The NYT will typically act as “safety valve” for Obama, leading in their story with a vague reference to the “non-role” played by Senator McCain at the time, and thus seeming to discredit the Obama version of the Keating Five story.

And in the remaining paragraphs, the NYT will manage to cast doubt upon and discredit their own “headline” thesis, and manage to slip in and twist the knife on McCain and the Republicans.

This is precisely how NYT “managed” the Obama-Ayers association story, although in reverse (at first seeming to verify McCain’s allegations, but then dismissing them) and manifests classic Pravda/CBS disinformation technique.