Oh How Journalists Hate John McCain

It just isn’t even fair.

     posted 25 August 2008 by Michael Scott Moore

  1. Fantastic YouTube find. Fantastic. But I don’t mean that in a mean way towards him…I genuinely thing they like him too much, and they are going through a bit of a break up as his campaign gets more aggressive. I heard it about a dozen times on all the morning shows I taped Sunday, that reporters are saying this “isn’t John McCain, but his campaign” or some version. I think there is a bit of a sad divorce happening. They really do like the guy and have fun around him. It’s kind of a ‘72 Kruse/Thompson throwback. They like the characters, they just can’t stand the staff…this will be fun.

    e

    — e    Aug 25, 10:34 am    #

  2. “Cabin”?

    Does that mean something different in American to English?

    — Bowleserised    Aug 26, 10:40 am    #

  3. That’s good old American understatement, like “school” for university. It probably is the most rustic of McCain’s seven homes.

    — Mike    Aug 26, 10:53 am    #

  4. I can’t fault the number of homes stumble just because my 65-year-old dad would probably stumble about the same question. He would think about rentals and places he actually lived, and then would get flighty over the details of all that, to the point I think he would sound like John McCain. Do investment properties count? I decided McCain gets a pass on this issue because my very smart, well-meaning father would have sounded just as bad.

    e

    — e    Aug 26, 11:39 am    #

  5. Oh, come on. If he wasn’t sure whether to count his investment properties, he can’t pretend to be a man of the people. The man’s wealth (and his wife’s) explains his tax policy.

    McCain is the real son of privilege, and he knows it. Obama is rich too, and he’s been labeled “elite,” but he had further to climb. McCain scraped through Annapolis on his father’s and his grandfather’s legacies.

    http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/at_annapolis_mccain_calls_for.html

    http://www.236.com/blog/w/alec_sokolow/middie_mccain_more_moron_than_5544.php

    — Mike    Aug 26, 11:58 am    #

  6. All very true. Hey, I am the first to point out to conservatives that the man was on his father’s coat tails and then his wife’s. Until last weekend, he said his Keating 5 meetings were his worst moral mistake, in his own biography, mind you. I think the Obama campaign needs to be more attack than they are (did you catch a certain Southern campaign consultant grinding his teeth into chalk today over this idea?). I am just saying that I give him a pass on the number of houses question…do you answer with the number you own or number you live in, or what? And it is a cabin. That is not a silly reference…I have called houses my dad own “cabins.” It’s privileged, but not elitist. There is much more to go after McCain for, I gues is my point.

    e

    — e    Aug 26, 01:53 pm    #

  7. This story reminds me of Newt Gingrich’s let-them-eat-cake moment, in which, as I recall, he argued to cut all federal funding for PBS since “most Americans have cable now.”

    I did think perhaps McCain just wanted to make sure he didn’t leave anything out, thus appearing to be hiding his wealth. But I have to agree that anyone who has to stop and classify the properties he owns, whether they’re homes vs vacation homes vs investment properties, is not one to understand how the typical U.S. citizen, let alone the majority of humans on the planet, lives.

    And I’m a little grossed out that his daughter thinks a drive from her Phoenix condo (one of the McCain’s 7 or so multi-million-dollar properties) to a ranch in Sedona counts as a Road Trip – it’s about an hour and a half (maaaayybbbee two) from any part of Phoenix to any part of Sedona. Thpbzzz.

    — na    Aug 27, 12:53 am    #