Posted on 02/21/2008 10:23:53 PM PST by melt
Anytime John McCain declines to speak to the press, something horrible must be happening.
Back in New Hampshire, McCain held press conferences after every event, taking questions from reporters more often than he'd rub his lucky nickel. In Iowa, he would talk to scribes for hours on his bus, get off and then 30 minutes later hold an avail. The journalists would look at each other, bemused and defeated, with no questions left.
But Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chasse and tried to approach him.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Look at it on the bright side. After he loses the election, he can always do Viagra commercials, no?
What a load. Poor reporting by an idiot who knows nothing of Wayne, Michigan.
This is old bullshit, nothing more!
It delights me to no end, that Time is hitching itself to the stratospheric soaring potential of the leaden-weight crash of the New Joke Times.
May they, also, slide into this tar pit. LOL
Could not have happened to a nicer guy, except maybe Clinton.
Hey Songbird,
you lie with democrat dogs and you get fleas.
Dumbass ol` fart.
Time magazine died when Henry Luce did.
Times contains a cesspool of liberal ink spillers.
Not as bad as Hillary’s and Obama’s will be when they are defeated!
Oh man...That image is not right. lol
Songird looks like a constipated burn victim.
The NYT is doing what I (and I'm sure many) knew it would do.
It is playing McCain like a piano.
I'm not a huge fan of his, but I will vote for him, but he will not win. On this site just days ago, I posted how I thought it would play out: The press will start writing attack stories, and then McCain would feel betrayed. He has good qualities, but he has been an utter fool who, due to vanity, bathes in the love of the press--he LOVES being seen as "above the fray" and "talking straight to the American people" (as if there is some actual American Voter who is pure and non-partisan, who can see only the good qualities of both parties and buy into just those) and all that happy Chris Matthews crap.
But he has never understood that he is loved by the press because HE IS USEFUL TO THEM. Now that he has the Republican nomination, due in large part to independents voting in open primaries, his usefulness to them is over.
The press know that this story is ALL they need. No attribution, no real facts, just a story that does what it needs to--make McCain seem "like all the rest," like a plain old dirty politician who is in the back room dealing with "special interests".
I've predicted that next we will see McCain "Himbo Eruptions"--except it won't be over women he's slept with, it will be about HIM. Wolf and Chris and Keith will be showing us video of McCain tossing reporters out of the bus, red-faced, screaming like a lunatic about "my integrity."
McCain will self-destruct because the press KNOW HIM. They know EXACTLY what to do to tick him off. And they will do this over the next months enough times so the American people will think (realize?) he is deranged, and that having this guy in charge of the military is a scary possibility.
I don't believe in the complex theories being floated. I think it's very simple. The lib media know that all they have to do to win is let McCain BE McCain--his self-righteousness will be his undoing.
I’d say the NYT’s day was much worse than McCain’s.
McCain was chosen by the media, and the boys in the smokey back room——not us. He’s a loser.
The future is never what we expect. It’s usually much stranger.
I expect Obama’s bad day is coming when the NYT reports on the first hand account of his crack smoking gay tryst.
It’s at least as credible as their McCain hit piece.
Yeah.
Man,,, that is disgusting
LMAO!!
Therein lies your explanation.
Deal with it.
We don't all go lockstep off the cliff like unthinking lemmings in support of a womanizing liberal (or moderate at best) politician just because he is the GOP standardbearer gained through abject lib media blockout and GOP state party-level obstruction of some of his more conservative primary opponents.
You should know better than that.
And you are welcome to examine my own nine solid years of posting conservative philosophy and comments here on FR--through "in Forum" archives, or in examining my nearly 40 years of supporting only conservative candidates, ballot propositions, legislation and social action unequivocably.
I do not support John McCain.
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