Politics | John McCain McCain to NYT: Don't Mess With the Missus Fuming campaign suggests paper find Obama's 'drug dealer' By Wesley Oliver Posted Oct 18, 2008 4:16 PM CDT Copied Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife Cindy McCain pause on the tarmac after they deplane in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) 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." A McCain spokesman echoed the sentiment, calling the Times' article "gutter journalism at its worst—an unprecedented attack on a presidential candidate's spouse. The New York Times has stooped lower than this campaign ever imagined possible in an attempt to discredit a woman whose only apparent sin is being married to the man that would oppose that paper’s preferred candidate, Barack Obama, in his quest for the Presidency." Read These Next Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. Actor Sam Rockwell gets residuals from movie he wasn't in. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. Raw-meat-eating 'Liver King' arrested for Joe Rogan threats. Report an error