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All three newscasts assigned a correspondent to the political shenanigans in the Empire State. Yet finding a source who was willing to go on the record about Caroline Kennedy's decision to withdraw from consideration from New York's vacant Senate seat was like finding hen's teeth. Consider the blind quotes in Kelly Wallace's report on CBS. An unidentified Kennedy aide said the former First Daughter was "made aware of a personal situation that was occurring that does not have anything to do with her uncle." An unidentified source "close" to Kennedy said she was withdrawing for personal reasons that are "serious and something only she and her immediate family really know." Another unidentified aide "disputed reports" that she had backed out because Gov David Paterson "was not going to choose her."
NBC's Mike Taibbi quoted The New York Times as one of his sources. The newspaper reported that "problems involving taxes and a household employee surfaced during the vetting process." ABC's John Berman quoted unidentified sources close to Paterson as describing "friction" over "financial disclosure forms" while an unidentified Kennedy aide decried "mudslinging." Kennedy's quest, observed Berman, "ended with one cryptic sentence and a crateload of conflicting explanations."
NBC's Taibbi summarized that Kennedy-for-Senate seemed like the "classic good idea at the time" when it was first floated. Now Kennedy-for-Private-Citizen even has her supporters saying "it is a good idea at this time."
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