Is it possible that the press just doesn’t love John McCain anymore?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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No.
No way.
Too much money involved in a close race. McCain has nothing but pathos and “Get off my lawn” stuff. The Media can’t let that stand.
I think that they are getting his number, without prompting from their corporate masters…
well when joe klein has turned:
and long-time friends and confidants have “had enough”. it’s probably safe to say that the print media, and it’s internet versions, infatuation with him isn’t holding up too well.
however, it doesn’t seem to have afflicted the tv talking heads to a major extent… yet.
maybe they found out Karl Rove is an outside advisor to John McCain.
The New York Times finds that McCain going negative is Worrying some in GOP
it’s the lack of civility that offends them. They think civility is the greatest virtue, as if you could get elected president by being civil to someone calling you a drug-dealing, playa.
C’mon, you don’t really believe that do you BooMan?
Pardon my French, but there is absolutely no way in the fucking world…the fucking solar system……the fucking galaxy…….the fucking UNIVERSE!!! that the media will not get seriously down for John McCain in this election!!! Bet on it my friend. For all the tut-tutting that they are doing right now, it is only a momentary smoke screen. The McCain camp will get on message, McCain will get some serious fast-track tutoring, just like the Shrub did, and the machine will get in gear. They have too many Rovian members in their inner circle to even consider anything but the worst, most vile campaign waged in modern times.
It is coming. We are all standing and staring right now at the weird way that the tide has gone out. It is so unusual that we are hypnotized by it. Remember all those people in Indonesia standing and staring out at the ocean in amazement? That is many of us right now. But make no mistake, the tsunami is coming. And when it does it will dwarf anything that is imaginable in our worst nightmares.
On that you can bet the bank my friend.
Lock and load, people. The fight has not even begun.
That’s the most depressing thing I’ve read in a while. 🙁
Hey Mike, looks like the INFJ’s are firing on all cylinders. Keep blazing away.
Different people perceive different things differently.
Ooh, you feed my innermost fears and darkest thoughts. Damn you for your cogent forecast!
That’s what Billmon sez.
Linky link
Part of me thinks that McCain won’t be changing his tune, but rather the media will follow a playbook kind of like this:
Let’s call McCain and his campaign “A”.
Step 1: Demonize and knock down “A”
Step 2: Begin to introduce doubt that “A” is really all that bad
Step 3: Allow for the possibility that “A” may have actually been right in some way, and ahead of the curve at that
Step 4: Hail the visionary “A”
But then I am an optimist, and really, I think McCain and his campaign are just pretty damn unlikeable in general. Like most Republicans.
John McShame is completely, totally, 100% bereft of the slightest scintilla of honor. He is with blame to the nth degree. There is nothing he won’t do to win the White House even if it involves destroying the White House. Representing the nadir of the American civilization, he adds a new corollary to Darwin’s famous theory: survival of the worst. His campaign will, I am sure, live on in infamy.
And, the Republicans and their lackeys in the media will glory in his filth. Woe to the United States should he win. Maybe, woe to America anyway.
What are the chances of McCain having an “incident” – a “stroke” or a “fall” down some stairs or something – that incapacitates him in such a way that he has to step aside just prior to the GOP convention? I’d say that it’s probably less than 1 in 20, but a part of me wonders if the GOP would seriously consider throwing McSame overboard.
throw McCain from the Train…GOPer’s are probably working on it.
I’ve had the very same thoughts myself, some sort of heath incident that makes it possible for him to step aside. I even did a mark my words with my friend Shirl about this yesterday.
Have to agree with the other posters. The press wants a horse race and with a few exceptions they want McCain to win it. Its about color and the color is green.
Want to keep in touch with Obama’s response to the lies, low blows and desperate crap that McCain and his minions are putting out?
Notice stuff like this in NY Times Editorials??? :
Visit McCain’s Low Road Express and arm yourself for the dirty street fight that the Old Man is starting to wage!
Under The LobsterScope
that the press doesn’t love John McCain anymore.
But I’ll bet they don’t love him any less either.
Atrios had a great video today of Mrs. Greenspan just being amazed at the crap McFraud’s campaign chair Rick Davis was spewing. She could not hold back her dismay for his crazy remarks.
Of course this does not mean the media’s man crush on the maverick is over but I do feel the tide is turning.
Could well be. The media would have preferred McCain, but if he behaves like a crazy old coot they would have a really hard time doing this.
As long as pundits are repeating McCain’s talking points about Obama (overconfident, arrogant, etc. etc.) they’re still showing that they’re in love with McCain.
Meanwhile, after seven years of heavy investigating a multiple murder case the FBI (with a little time out for investigating what whorehouses Dem governors frequent, or what athletes are lying about steroids or running dogfights) had narrowed down among less than two dozen employees their suspect working in the small anthrax lab at Fort Detrick. Seven years to figure out the diabolical pyschopath on the staff in the anthrax lab. And just before they indict him he commits suicide! Nice and clean. I guess we’ll eventually get his name, maybe even a why.
Move along, model citizen. Nothing here to see.
This was a crime aimed at the two politicians who were standing in the way of our glorious Homeland Security Act. Now we have that wonderful law to protect us. Don’t we all feel safer now? Yes? Good. Now move along.
this from the LAT:
no motive given although his brother who “sang like a canary to the fbi” had this to say: “”He had in his mind that he was omnipotent.”
the latest version of the old dead men tell no tales scenario.