Upgrade your browser!

Skip to Content

Videos / Random Videos /

McCain Role in Keating Five Censored by ...

The Keating Five scandal, and John McCain's role in it, has received relatively little mention in presidential campaign coverage, and at least one Fox News host seems dedicated to keeping it that way.

  • Views: 605
  • All Ages
  • All Ages

Related Media

  • Video:Freaked (1993)
  • Freaked (1993)
  • A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up a. . .
  • Votes 4.06/5 - Views 140 - Comments 3

View All


Trouble playing the media? Click here to manually download it.

Rate This Video:
Rate it 0.5 Rate it 1.0 Rate it 1.5 Rate it 2.0 Rate it 2.5 Rate it 3.0 Rate it 3.5 Rate it 4.0 Rate it 4.5 Rate it 5.0

3.62 out of 5 based on 105 votes

Rating Results:
Earn XP by sharing this video!
learn more

Video URL:

Embedded Link:

Send This Video To A Cell Phone! Digg

9 Comments

Current View: 15 / Show all Comments

darkangeledge : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

darkangeledge

5 votes NegativePositive

406 days 5 hours ago...

whats with the fox news people and telling everyone that doesn`t agree with them to shut up?

nerdicus : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

nerdicus

3 votes NegativePositive

406 days 1 hour ago...

That`s called Fox Reporting. They spew a skewed story with a slant to their agenda and if anyone else says anything different they talk over them until they give up. If that person tries doing the same thing to them they get rude and tell them to stick a cork in it or go to commercial. Makes me wish someone would just loose it and pop one of the fucks right in the kisser.

Mr Bitches : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Mr Bitches

-4 votes NegativePositive

405 days 21 hours ago...

John McCain was one of senators involved in this, and he was cleared of wrong doing. The other four were democrats. So I guess that means that in this case, dems are four times as corrupt as republicans. But then again, nobody here will acknowledge that fact.

truth-is-the-nemesis : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

truth-is-the-nemesis

4 votes NegativePositive

405 days 15 hours ago...

^
to claim that due to the ratio of democrats to republicans in the savings & loan crisis somehow makes john McCains part in it any less severe is alittle short-sighted to say the least.

John McCain is running for office when the economy is the most pressing issue effecting the majority of american people & was aiding Charles Keating back in the 1980s and early 1990s lincoln savings & loan scandle which had a profound effect on the economy.

the cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $160.1 billion, about $124.6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

The accompanying slowdown in the finance industry and the real estate market may have been a contributing cause of the 1990-1991 economic recession. Between 1986 and 1991, the number of new homes constructed per year dropped from 1.8 million to 1 million, the lowest rate since World War II.

McCain and Keating had become personal friends following their initial contacts in 1981, and McCain was the closest socially to Keating of the five senators. Like DeConcini, McCain considered Keating a constituent as he lived in Arizona.

Between 1982 and 1987, McCain had received $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates. In addition, McCain`s wife Cindy McCain and her father Jim Hensley had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators.

McCain, his family, and their baby-sitter had made nine trips at Keating`s expense, sometimes aboard Keating`s jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating`s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain did not pay Keating (in the amount of $13,433) for some of the trips until years after they were taken, when he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln

Mr Bitches : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Mr Bitches

-4 votes NegativePositive

405 days 13 hours ago...

Hmmm, you really want to try and claim that drivel as yours, or fess up to plagiarizing all of that. Some off of Wiki, some off of blog sites, your a real piece of work!

truth-is-the-nemesis : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

truth-is-the-nemesis

3 votes NegativePositive

405 days 10 hours ago...

blog sites???? no to that.

& wiki yes but whats your grevince with that, it goes through vigorous fact checking & i never claimed that it was my work that i was presenting to you so how is that plagiarizing.

i was actually going to source it as from `wiki`, but didnt think i needed to for a comment in a forum!!!

the fact that your debating me on `where` i got the information instead of what the information actually IS, tells me that you have nothing to dispute it & not a leg to stand on with your counter-evidence so instead you revert to easy & childish name calling when confronted with facts & evidence.

otherwise state your case to defend McCains record - i for one would like to hear it.

Omeko : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Omeko

3 votes NegativePositive

405 days 6 hours ago...

Fox is a republican station.
Everything on this station is rubbish, lies a democrat bashing.
FUCK FOX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EckJerome : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

EckJerome

-1 votes NegativePositive

399 days 22 hours ago...

Bleat on, liberals. The Keating Five is OLD news and McCain was exonerated of any wrongdoing. The Obama campaign doesn`t bring it up because, unlike the liberal fruitcakes around here, they know it`s a nonstarter and would only look bad on Obama to dredge it up.

But, yeah, you guys just go on preaching to the choir.

And as rybear noted, it`s just so hard to get the dozens of negative votes you guys used to give me. Traffic must be way down. Seriously, my record is like -150!! Now I`m lucky if ten of you notice me.

Oops, was that trolling? My bad.

ParticleMan420 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

ParticleMan420

3 votes NegativePositive

393 days 17 hours ago...

"thats`s the 80`s its now 2008...."

so its only "the past" and "irrelevant" when it has to do with republicans, but its all fair game on democrats?

stupid republicunts talking out of both sides of your mouths AND out of your asses

Post a Comment:

Avatar

The Spikedhumor Drawing!Drawing Coming Soon!
Prize
Entry Dates: 9/8/2007-9/14/2009

Recent Blog Posts

LOTS OF PENIS ABUSE [11.07/08...

Gifs [11.06.09]

Burglar Texts Own Photo To Ne...

Big Farting Bull In Little Ch...

Dead Man Turns Up At His Fune...

Woman Passes Driver's Exam On...

Recovered Van Stolen 35 Years...

Kids: Hitler Was A Football C...

Hotlinks on Spiked

Nerdcore Calendar Premiere Party 2010

6 Pick-Up ‘Negs’ Every Guy Needs To Be Aware Of

Funny eBay auctions

Favorite Comic Book Cliches

Kelly Brook Lingerie Pictures

Shauna Sand Sex Tape Clip

Spiked Classics of 2008

Russian Cameraman
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.7
  • 5
204734
killuminati555
View Profile
Level: 13
Voting Power: 2.2

Perfect Mini Golf Shot
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.6
  • 5
186540
mag1kr3zin
View Profile
Level: 38
Voting Power: 4.6

Saw 5 Trailer
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
4785
TheRepostPolice
View Profile
Level: 37
Voting Power: 4.5

Censored AGAIN!!! - Truth...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
184744
Ezay
View Profile
Level: 26
Voting Power: 3.5

How it's Made: Ceramic Kn...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.7
  • 5
215735
audrey
View Profile
Level: 34
Voting Power: 4.2

WTF Anime Momment
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
195415
elpapisimo
View Profile
Level: 34
Voting Power: 4.2

Dambusters Advert II
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.2
  • 5
11175
ShapeSphere
View Profile
Level: 63
Voting Power: 5

Crazy Rasberry Ants
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.2
  • 5
61228
ecko69x
View Profile
Level: 34
Voting Power: 4.2

Batman Begins

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.3
  • 5
162698
ShapeSphere
View Profile
Level: 63
Voting Power: 5

Half-Rat Half-Robot.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.7
  • 5
4310332
sstteevvee33
View Profile
Level: 33
Voting Power: 4.2

Ghost Riders in the Sky
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.1
  • 5
51140
ShapeSphere
View Profile
Level: 63
Voting Power: 5

Girl Produces Crystals Fr...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.3
  • 5
419421
idoubtit
View Profile
Level: 33
Voting Power: 4.2

Turkish News Crew Under H...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.1
  • 5
4339
Iron Mith
View Profile
Level: 21
Voting Power: 3

Fox News: 12 Year Old Gir...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
438382
GIB76
View Profile
Level: 33
Voting Power: 4.2

The Dark Knight
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
226580
Kingg
View Profile
Level: 35
Voting Power: 4.3

You Should Never Lie On Y...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
219924
reg4477
View Profile
Level: 63
Voting Power: 5

Spikedhumor's Weekly Pict...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.5
  • 5
27005
InsayneJayne
View Profile
Level: 65
Voting Power: 5

A New Heinz Commerical..S...
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4.4
  • 5
245399
reg4477
View Profile
Level: 63
Voting Power: 5