This week, the media continued to bend over backwards to repeat whatever narrative McCain wants them to. He even refurnished his airplane with a VIP section for the most obedient reporters.
Top McCain aide Mark Salter said "‘only the good reporters’ would get to sit in the specially-configured section for interviews. ‘You’ll have to earn it,’ he said." So how can these reporters "earn" a seat? Never challenge the Senator,
Full Lineup and lots of other goodies below...
But to understand why the press is reacting with such outrage, you have to understand what they've been saying about McCain for the last decade.
There's a myth out there that the McCain campaign and the media have cooperated to create. It says that John McCain is reluctant to exploit his Vietnam POW story for political advantage, so modest and full of integrity is he. We've seen this repeated again and again, not just by McCain and his supporters but by reporters who ought to know better.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
From the first time he ran for Congress in 1982 up to the present day, McCain has made his POW story the centerpiece of his entire political career. - Author Paul Waldman
THE LINEUP -
Meet The Wimbeldon.
Tweety: Hillary Duff fan David Gregory, Katty Kay, Gloria Borger, Elite columnist David Brooks. Quotes here.
This Weak: Sen. Joe Lieberman (R-McSame), Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI). Possible Georgia savior Bob Barr. WaPo's Jonathan Capeheart, Michelle Cottle, Ted Koppel and the Worst Political Journalist on Earth Mark Halperin talk shop.
Face The Nation: Huckleberry Graham weeps for Charlie Crist, Senator John Kerry.
Faux News: Only a roundtable of their regular pundits, no real people.
Late Edition with Wolf: Ten Years of The Beard. Clips and gratuitous reacharounds abound.
60 Minutes: Anderson Cooper on endangered Congo gorillas, Stupidest F*ing Guy On The Planet, rerun of copper penny segment.
NOTEABLES -
More Hard-Working Americans want to have a BBQ with Obama
than Old Man McCain. Someone check Chris Matthews. He may be having a massive brain aneurism from narrative failure.
Tampa Bay news nails McSame
Former young gop official is now a registered sex offender, serving six years in jail for assault on another man.
Bon Jovi (D-NJ) set to perform free in Central Park.
Is it just me or is John Avarosis and AmericaBlog just getting better and better?
Best rationale for not dwelling on Jesse Helms' death:
Not planning to let a dead bigot ruin my 4th of July.
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- Obamamania Eye Candy
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McSAME is capturing the imaginations of millions!
Americans are very worried that McCain is too McSame as Bush.
Old Man McCain confused again:
McSame doesn't know the difference between Somalia and Sudan, has to be corrected by an aide.
DEMOTED!
McSame's failing presidential campaign once used a unique regional structure where each region of the country had its own somewhat independent director. Now? Not so much. Wonder if he personally called all his regional directors to let them know they were stripped of their power?
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Epic Reference Sheet: The MOTHER of all McCain Flip-Flop lists.
The 'Banana Terrorist' Flip-Flop:
McSame takes campaign money from terrorist financier, while bringing up Ayers to Obama.
McCain attends fundraiser by former CEO of Chiquita Banana, which paid $1.7 Million to FARC, which McSame calls "One of the worst terrorist groups".
And where there is a shady foreign entity, there is McCain campaign guru Charlie Black:
McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black, lobbied for Chiquita on two separate occasions in 2001...From 2001 through 2007, his work brought his firm more than $1.6 million in lobbying fees from Occidental Petroleum, a company whose security arm was accused of bombing a Colombian village and killing 17 civilians in 1998.
The Water's Edge Partisanship Flip-Flop:
"I believe that partisanship ends at the water’s edge," McCain said emphatically...
But on the inaugural flight of the Straight Talk Express – airborne edition – McCain felt freer to let loose.
He also went on to subtly criticize Obama on Columbian soil as well. But It's Okay if You Are John McCain.
THE TAPE DOESN'T LIE:
Keith Olbermann counts down McCain's Greatest Flips:
And Finally....
McSame tries his Jedi Mind Trick to hide his flip flops on economic expertise, but the tape doesn't lie:
This has been another small sample of John McCain's Flip-Flops and dishonesty that the traditional media lapdogs refuse to tell you, lest they lose their comfortable airplane seating or miss out on some great BBQ at his home.
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SLIDESHOW - Beauty and Pride
Photos via ObamaFlickr
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Hard Times:
Old Man McSame is having such a hard time courting the elite Bush donors,
he is reduced to doing newspaper ads to pick up a few extra bucks shilling for his favorite products.