NY Daily News : "[M]averick" McCain "immediately accepted" adopted
 
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:23:03 -0400


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<p><b>NY <em>Daily News</em>: "[M]averick" McCain "immediately accepted" adopted
daughter </b></p>
<p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706180004?src=clip200706180004">http://mediamatters.org/items/200706180004</a></p>

<p>In a June 18 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=clip200706180004&http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/06/18/2007-06-18_campaign_trail_will_be_nothin_for_cindy.html">article</a>
profiling Sen. John McCain&#39;s (R-AZ) wife, Cindy,
 New York <i>Daily News</i> reporter Rich Schapiro referred
to the GOP presidential candidate as a "maverick" in the context of
his willingness to accept an adopted daughter into his family. Schapiro wrote
that after Cindy McCain adopted a baby in Bangladesh without informing her
husband, "the maverick senator immediately accepted his new daughter,
Cindy McCain said."</p>

<p>Schapiro is only among
the very latest to refer to McCain a
"maverick," a descriptor used by the media <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705030002?src=clip200706180004">with</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704130006?src=clip200706180004">great</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200612060005?src=clip200706180004">frequency</a>,
despite numerous instances in which McCain has aligned himself with the Bush administration or the GOP
congressional leadership,
and -- as in this case -- without providing an explanation for its relevance to the
information being conveyed.</p>

<p>From the June 18 New
  York <i>Daily News</i> article<i>:</i> </p><blockquote>

<p>And then, in 1991, Cindy McCain
traveled to Bangladesh
with a nonprofit group she had founded and ended up securing medical visas for
two sickly babies she had come across at an orphanage.</p>

<p>

She came home with one of the
babies, Bridget, without telling her husband. <b>But
the maverick senator immediately accepted his new daughter, Cindy McCain said.</b> </p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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