Brooks: The Media Has Made John McCain Evil
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
So David Brooks wrote an annoying little column today about this: “McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he used to woo the press back in 2000. It didn’t work. This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment to set off little blog scandals.” Those 25-year-old reporters and “little blog” rats should be proud of themselves, wouldn’t you think, if they were the ones not whorish enough to buy John McCain’s offers of friendship and let him get away with everything? MORE »
So David Brooks wrote an annoying little column today about this: “McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he used to woo the press back in 2000. It didn’t work. This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment to set off little blog scandals.” Those 25-year-old reporters and “little blog” rats should be proud of themselves, wouldn’t you think, if they were the ones not whorish enough to buy John McCain’s offers of friendship and let him get away with everything? MORE »
As everybody in America knows, John McCain 
Wonkette Curseword-Monitoring Operative “Jared” sends us this screenshot of CNN’s Political Ticker from yesterday, back when Joe Biden was saying “bullshit” all over the place. The click-through is properly figleafed with a double asterisk, though. 
John McCain’s favorite friend-with-benefits, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, today brought to the world’s attention an interesting fact: WALNUTS! has done more for Global Warming Change than Al “Global Warming = Peace” Gore. 
Hi babies! Let’s get it going, Myrtle Beach style. Hey, that’s Kayton Dawson! He’s the head of the South Carolina GOP. And where’s that other bigshot, the S.C. state treasurer and Rudy co-chairman who got busted running a massive cocaine trafficking operation? 
John “The Artist Formerly Known As Maverick” McCain got a nice big kiss from the Post magazine yesterday, with a lengthy profile that paints him, improbably, as both the inevitable “heir” to the Bush dynasty and someone who can get elected. McCain, the only man in the country besides Joe Lieberman who manages to out-hawk the President on Iraq, which is currently polling slightly less popular than RJ Reynolds’ “cigarettes for school kids” program, also portrays himself, to great effect, as the Senate’s single most gullible member: