How much trouble is the New York Times in for their story yesterday alleging an affair between GOP near-nominee John McCain and a female lobbyist and subsequent unethical actions taken on her client's behalf?Quite a bit. It seems that many on the left are echoing the right in the same kind of criticisms levelled at editor Bill Keller and the 4 reporters who worked on the story. This astonishing op-ed appeared in the ultra-liberal Seattle Post-Intelligencer and points up the reasons the story never should have seen the light of day:I chose not to run the New York Times story on John McCain in Thursday's P-I, even though it was available to us on the New York Times News Service. I thought I'd take a shot at explaining why. To me, the story had serious flaws. It did not convincingly make the case that McCain either had an affair with a lobbyist, or was improperly influenced by her. It used a raft of unnamed sources to assert that members of McCain's campaign staff -- not this campaign...(Read Full Post)