As Politico reported earlier this AM, wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain.
It will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
If you aren't familiar with David Brock, he is the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
He has since made peace with the Clintons.
Brock later apologized to Clinton in a public letter and broke publicly with the conservative movement. He wrote about his disillusionment in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right, and Hillary Clinton later helped him establish Media Matters, which criticizes reporters for alleged right-wing "misinformation."
Brock is now seen in political circles as closer to Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign than to Senator Barack Obama's, but Brock said he has already met with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close Obama ally.
"This is a unity play," Brock said.
With all the scrutiny squarely focused on Obama v. Clinton, it is blatantly obvious that John McCain is getting a pass by the media. He has made numerous publicly stated blunders that fly under the radar as the MSM nitpick over anything related to the Dems.
Good news...big money is about to change that.
Brock suggested that the group could do the work of a press corps that, he says, has "fallen down on the job" when it comes to McCain.
"A void that might be filled, while the Democrats fight it, out by the press is not going to be filled, because the press is in love with John McCain," Brock said in an interview at the Regency Hotel in Manhattan. "It's what McCain is allowed to say without being challenged by facts that will show him to have said something different in the past."
Brock's most recent book is called "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media."
This should get fun...for a Change. ;-)