The Press Corps’ Unshakeable Crush on McCain (Peter Hart, F.A.I.R.)

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Extra! May/June 2008

Howard Fineman et al barf alert...


The Press Corps’ Unshakeable Crush on McCain
Some straight talk about the media’s favorite ‘maverick’

By Peter Hart


If you pay even passing attention to national politics, you know that presumptive GOP presidential candidate John McCain is a maverick who bucks his own party’s line and never wavers in his political beliefs. At least, that’s what the corporate media say—reality tells a very different story.

A candidate could only get away with such an elaborate and long-running con with the media as willing accomplices. “The press loves McCain,” explained NBC host Chris Matthews (9/10/06). “We’re his base.”

For much of the press, the early stages of the 2008 presidential campaign were a chance to fall in love all over again. “Those of us on the Straight Talk Express eight years ago got a breathtaking journalistic opportunity: to be inside the lively mind and heart of a leading contender for president,” Newsweek’s Howard Fineman recalled (3/3/08). “McCain was as joyously combative as Popeye and as earnestly confessional as Oprah.”


(long good read at link: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3369

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1. Their doing it again

The "fair and balanced" system will cover McShame and ignore the Democratic candidate.

The news will be one comment from a Democrat and two from a republicon and so forth.

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2. I fear so, too. n/t