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January 2009
- McCain Crushes Cindy's Dancing Dreams
  
  New York Post | Jan 16, 09 11:09 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Sorry, McCain fans. Your candidate is back in the Senate rather than moving into the White House, and you can't even take solace by watching his wife on Dancing With the Stars. Cindy McCain had been in talks with producers since Thanksgiving and “wanted to do it very badly,” a source tells the New York Post, but her hubby “put the kibosh on it.” More »
November 2008
- NYT Slaps Reporter for Facebook Source
  
  New York Times | Nov 16, 08 11:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Backlash against the New York Times reporter who contacted minors on Facebook to locate sources has led Times public editor Clark Hoyt to declare, “I would not have sent the messages.” Jodi Kantor, author of last month’s unflattering front-page profile of Cindy McCain, reached out to classmates of McCain's daughter to find parents who knew McCain. Her efforts were labeled by some as “disgusting.” More »
- Enquirer 'Catches' Cindy McCain in Tryst
  
  National Enquirer | Nov 12, 08 2:01 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The National Enquirer says it has caught Cindy McCain “passionately” locking lips with a long-haired, “washed-up ‘80s rock musician” type. The tabloid revealed its “world exclusive” spy photos—admittedly grainy—of the pair at a 2006 music festival in Phoenix. A Huffington Post reader shed doubt on the allegation, pointing out that McCain was in Kosovo during the concert. More »
October 2008
- The Makeover Palin Should Have Had
  
  Washington Post | Oct 23, 08 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - That the GOP dressed up “a no-frills hockey mom” for her star turn is fine, but that they dressed her up in Neiman's, Saks, and Barneys is “mind-boggling evidence of a tin ear for the symbolism of popular culture,” style maven Robin Givhan wails in the Washington Post . It doesn’t take much fashion knowledge to know a $10,000 handbag represents “exclusivity, success, and classiness”—not Jane Six-Pack. More »
- McCain to NYT : Don't Mess With the Missus
  
  Chicago Sun-Times | Oct 18, 08 4:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The McCain campaign and the New York Times are at it again after the paper published a partly unflattering profile of Cindy McCain today, Lynn Sweet reports for the Chicago Sun-Times . Mrs. McCain’s lawyer fired off an angry letter at the Times , asking why it drudged up old stories on Cindy's drug use and charitable life. "You have not tried to find Barack Obama's drug dealer that he wrote about in his book," he wrote. “There is a terrific lack of balance here." More »
- Cindy McCain Seeks Return to City That Shunned Her
  
  New York Times | Oct 18, 08 11:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain is giving her all to get her husband into the White House despite the tough time the capital has given her in the past, the New York Times reports. When she moved there early in her marriage, the young political wife found herself ostracized by cliquey congressional wives outraged that McCain had dumped the popular Carol McCain for a younger, richer woman. More »
- McCains Get Free Cell Towers at Ranch
  
  Washington Post | Oct 16, 08 12:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Verizon and AT&T provided portable cell phone towers to John McCain's Arizona ranch free of charge soon after he launched his presidential bid, the Washington Post reports. The companies say it's a unique situation—a modern candidate has to be plugged in, after all—but ethics lawyers say it's questionable because McCain is chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the FCC and the telecom industry. More »
- Confident Palin: 'You Got to Read the Report'
  
  CNN | Oct 11, 08 12:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sarah Palin says she did not abuse her power as governor, despite the findings of an ethics investigation, CNN reports. “If you read the report, you will see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member,” she said. The report, however, did not fault Palin for firing her public safety commissioner; it criticized her for using her office to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. She did not address that issue in brief remarks to reporters. More »
September 2008
- Guess How Many Cars I Own?
  
  Newsweek | Sep 22, 08 8:53 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The McCains own almost twice as many cars as they do houses, and a few members of the fleet are foreign—despite John McCain’s recent assurances to Detroit that "I've bought American literally all my life.” Thirteen cars are registered to John and Cindy McCain, Newsweek discovered in a search of public records.The number of vehicles registered to Barack and Michelle Obama? One. More »
- Cindy McCain Blasts View After Grilling
  
  ABC News | Sep 15, 08 2:52 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Newspapers and TV shows like The View are out of sync with the average American’s political beliefs, wannabe first lady Cindy McCain has declared. She blasted the media the day after she and hubby John McCain were grilled on The View about misleading campaign ads and the undisclosed number of homes the McCains own, reports ABC. More »
- Cindy's Addiction: It Claimed Several Other Victims
  
  Washington Post | Sep 12, 08 11:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain is open about her painkiller addiction in the early 1990s—to a point, the Washington Post reports in an account of that period. Though she speaks of it frequently as a story of personal struggle, what she doesn't say is that she was in serious legal jeopardy for using her charity as a front to procure the drugs, and that her conduct affected a number of people outside her family. More »
- McCains Dish About Family Life
  
  People | Sep 11, 08 1:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The McCains are hardly the average American family, but Cindy still wants that gas tank filled when the car comes back. Cindy, a reticent John, and eldest daughter, Meghan, 23, spilled the beans to People about McCain family life: On messing with mom: “Sometimes I just like to shock her and say the dirtiest jokes I can possibly think of and she's like, ‘Oh, Meghan!’ I think she secretly enjoys them.” More »
- Cindy McCain, Lonesome Cowgirl
  
  New Yorker | Sep 10, 08 3:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain is a classic Western loner who chose to raise her kids as a self-styled “single parent” in Phoenix rather than join John in Washington as he served in the Senate. She may be a size zero, but she has "unusual grit": she drives a race car, flies a plane, and she likes to tell stories of making big decisions and then springing them on John, Ariel Levy writes in the New Yorker . More »
- For Political Wives, It's All in the Dress
  
  Washington Post | Sep 6, 08 3:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - First lady fashions are more than trivial concerns: Their choices reflect on presidential campaigns and hold the power to spark new trends, writes Robin Givhan in the Washington Post . Cindy McCain "has endorsed the status quo" by turning to White House veteran Oscar de la Renta, while Michelle Obama "has shown her willingness to embrace a new generation of designers." More »
- Cindy Cries 'Sexism' in Palin Uproar
  
  ABC News | Sep 3, 08 12:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain "absolutely" believes sexism is behind the media scrutiny of Sarah Palin, the beer heiress told ABC's Good Morning America , complaining that the Palin coverage is "insulting" and "outlandish." McCain, however, said she didn't remember Palin deriding Clinton's "whine about that excess criticism" as doing women no favors. More »
August 2008
- ‘Kindred Spirit’ Palin Wowed McCain Right From Start
  
  Washington Post | Aug 31, 08 6:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was a strong contender to be John McCain's running mate all along, his campaign has revealed. Looking to diffuse speculation that Palin was a hasty, last-minute choice, aides told the Washington Pos t that she was high on McCain’s list since their first meeting in February. Advisers also divulged that Cindy McCain played a major role in the veepstakes. More »
- Cindy McCain's Half-Sister Goes for Obama
  
  Us Weekly | Aug 28, 08 4:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain’s estranged half-sister is not voting Republican, Us Magazine reports. “I’m voting for Obama,” says Kathleen Hensley Portalski, 65, adding she has “a different political standpoint. I’m not a big war believer.” More »
- The Private Wealth Behind McCain's Public Life
  
  New York Times | Aug 23, 08 7:13 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain is one of the wealthiest men in the Senate, but the McCain fortune is less open to scrutiny than that of most lawmakers, the New York Times reports, since the vast bulk of it remains solely in the name of wife Cindy. She has a controlling stake in the privately held beer distribution company inherited from her father, which nets her an estimated $5 million a year, and her investments carry few disclosure requirements. More »
- 'Only Child' Cindy McCain Has Half-Sister
  
  NPR | Aug 19, 08 10:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cindy McCain has publicly referred to herself as an only child—and her half-sister isn’t happy about it, NPR reports. “I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, ” said Kathleen Hensley Portalski, whose dad, Arizona multi-millionaire Jim Hensley, is also Cindy's father. Kathleen is 11 years older than her campaigning half-sister. More »
- Go Figure: Candidates Differ Wildly on What 'Rich' Means
  
  Los Angeles Times | Aug 18, 08 4:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If there was a "gotcha" question in Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren's interviews with the presidential candidates Saturday, it was asking them each to take a shot at defining "rich." Barack Obama said people making more than $250,000 per year. John McCain went with $5 million—a figure he immediately regretted—"I'm sure that comment will be distorted," he added—and his campaign later claimed was a joke. More »