McCain blows it out his dough hole

Can someone explain to me just what in the hell has happened to the media in this country? It's a rhetorical question, of course, and one that I'll never likely get a satisfactory answer to, but I ask myself this on an almost daily basis.

I'm not a blow hard who can't take a joke, but this is NOT the sort of relationship any serious member of the press (so naturally, Fox News is out) should be enabling with a presidential candidate. And this is exactly the sort of treatment that Dubya, our National Embarrassment, courted and received during the 2000 election. (For example, about double the number of daily newspapers endorsed Bush over Gore that year.) To take it one step further, this is exactly the sort of coverage that allowed the seemingly infinite number of Bush outrages to take place, led, of course, by the War in Iraq and this administration's response appallingly inept response to Hurricane Katrina.

If McSame gets elected, you can expect more of the same - a press that lies down like an obedient dog, failing to adequately report on what will undoubtedly be Bush III in many ways, namely Iraq and absurd tax cuts.

How is McCain courting the press? I've already blogged about it Here. I'm working on a longer piece about the press, which I'll post later tonight or tomorrow.