John McCain and Charlie Keating: Remember?

By Amy Silverman If Tom Fitzpatrick were alive today, the guy wouldn't believe his eyes. In 1991, the late New Times columnist devoted one of his classic diatribes to the notion that no one would ever forget the role Arizona's U.S. senators, John McCain and Dennis DeConcini, had played as...
By Amy SilvermanSeptember 17, 2008
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By Amy Silverman

If Tom Fitzpatrick were alive today, the guy wouldn’t believe his eyes.

In 1991, the late New Times columnist devoted one of his classic diatribes to the notion that no one would ever forget the role Arizona’s U.S. senators, John McCain and Dennis DeConcini, had played as two of the Keating Five.

Here we are, 17 years later. America stands on the edge of a cliff, on the verge of toppling John McCain into the presidency — and the role of addressing a tremendous financial crisis.

Maybe it’s a good time to remember the Keating Five and the role McCain played.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.

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