J.P. Freire, managing editor of the conservative American Spectator magazine, is outraged. Simply outraged that the New York Times would have the sheer audacity to run a questionable article about a possible tawdry affair between Sen. John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman. That the so-called Paper of Record would dare hint at a sex scandal.

“If you want to have reliable journalism, or any sort of standards when it comes to reporting the right things, maybe what you should do is…avoid going to the New York Times,” Freire said last Thursday on Neil Cavuto’s FOX News program (YouTube below). “They can’t be relied on to tell a decent story, especially when it comes to John McCain.”

Freire went further. He wants people to boycott the publication. Cancel their subscriptions. Rip the paper to shreds.

“It’s sloppy work,” Freire insisted. “It’s not properly attributed.”

Stop the presses. Doesn’t Freire work for the same American Spectator that unabashedly pursued a story involving someone named Paula Jones (they only referred to her by first name in the beginning) and her allegations of an affair with President Bill Clinton? Didn’t the American Spectator rely on several unnamed sources in that situation? Didn’t employees of the American Spectator long pursue a whispering campaign, fostering rumors that President Clinton fathered a child out of wedlock with a young African American woman? Didn’t they leak that unfounded story to Matt Drudge in 1999?

The magazine, it turns out, is a verifiable glass house.

Still, we have no doubt that Freire’s outrage is real. But, perhaps, it stems from a source other than indignity over journalistic standards. After all, before working for the American Spectator, Freire did work at the New York Times. And he was forced to move on when his boss got demoted.

Now he’s throwing stones.

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Big Head DC has obtained a copy of a tax warrant for Bill Keller, the editor of the controversial New York Times Sen. John McCain / Vicki Iseman story:

The warrant indicates that as of early this month Keller owed almost $1,000 in unpaid taxes, according to the New York Tax Commissioner. h/t: webofdeception.com

Earlier: NY Times Editor Bill Keller Had an Affair, Too?

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Bill Keller, the New York Times’ top editor who bears responsibility for the publication of the Sen. John McCain / Vicki Iseman affair article, may have once had an extramarital affair himself — with his current wife Emma Gilbey, according to research dug up by Deceiver.com. Which would go far in partially explaining why Keller was pretty reticent to unload this piece in the first place. Guilty hearts, and all. FYI: Gilbey was once romantically involved with Sen. John Kerry.

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Just as they have done for Sen. Barack Obama’s accuser Larry Sinclair, WhiteHouse.com is now offering Vicki Iseman $100,000 if she will take a polygraph and it shows that she did not have an affair with Sen. John McCain.

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Bob Bennett, otherwise known as John McCain’s lawyer, happened to be scheduled to appear on Hannity & Colmes on Wednesdy evening — before anyone knew the New York Times McCain / Vicki Iseman would break:

From the program:

“You know, I’m in a pretty unique position to talk about John McCain. First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on his side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five, which, by the way, this New York Times article goes back to and discusses, goes back years and years. And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him, and I think for the “New York Times” to dig this up just shows that Senator McCain’s public statement about this is correct. It’s a smear job.”

“Ironically, you guys were kind enough to invite me on to talk about my book. This story broke, you know, an hour ago. And this was not my intention here, you know, to come on and defend John McCain. I think it’s the right thing to do. One thing I concluded, he is an honest man. This is a real hit job. “

“And after representing him the last few months, answering all the questions of the New York Times, looking into the allegations they wanted us to respond to, I cannot find, nor can they, a single instance where John McCain did something contrary to his beliefs.”

“I only began representing Senator McCain a couple of months ago in connection with some dirty tricks, which has now resulted in this article, I believe. I investigated John McCain. I was investigating him as counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee. It was after a year and a half year of investigating him, I decided that he was a very honest man and recommended to the Senate that they not go after him. So, you know, I didn’t ever represent him before. I don’t know, you know, John McCain is winning an awful lot. And just a repeat of South Carolina, if you ask me.”

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