Edited sentence: "  McCain spoke in a press conference on February 21, saying: "I'm very disappointed in the article."  One of the issues, letters to the FCC, had been examined in 2000 for connections to campaign contributors, not lobbyists."Anybody who knows anything about Washington knows that if there is one senator who will not honor the requests of his friends when it comes to various pieces of legislation, it is John McCain.After investigating him for a year and a half, Bennett suggested that the committee cut McCain out of the case because he felt he was "an honest man" and alleged that he was left on because otherwise the case would have indicted only Democrats.And I suspect it's only because John McCain is winning so much that we are even reading this story.And, unfortunately, they have just obviously disregarded all of the hard evidence that we presented.Bennett talked about The Times' article on McCain: "All of the matters that they allude to – I mean, they are not even very specific – we answered fully to the New York Times.Bennett went on to defend McCain:.Bennett, who had been scheduled to talk about his new book on Hannity and Colmes, talked about how he was asked by the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate McCain during the Keating Five scandal.Bob Bennett, a registered Democrat whom McCain hired to represent him in this incident, criticized The Times for printing the article based on innuendo and felt that they had only published it because they had been threatened by The New Republic magazine.But they certainly have allowed themselves to be a vehicle for a repeat of what happened in South Carolina.I will let others conclude that.It's not true.Now, I'm not suggesting that the New York Times has an agenda here.Some of the people that I know very well who are lobbyists, Republican lobbyists, will tell me, and they will tell anybody who asks, McCain calls it the way he sees it on the merits.We showed them that there was just nothing there.You can be his friend for 25 years and if he doesn't agree with it, he'll say no