Media Whores may not be in Bed with McCain.. but they love the FREE BOOZE!

<< To a greater degree than any candidate in thirty years, McCain offered reporters the three things they want most: total access all the time, an endless stream of amusing quotes, and vast quantities of free booze." >>

As quoted by Eric Alterman and George Zornik in their article in The Nation magazine, quoting an excerpt from _REPUBLICAN_ media personality Tucker Carlson's book, Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/alterman
Tucker's quote is just one of several dozen examples of how reporters put playing courtiers to McCain's campaign court as a far greater priority than analyzing how the senators policies, votes, and positions would impact the American economy and foreign policy... or even how McCain's positions have impacted America in the past. (For example, McCain's role as a KEATING FIVE Senator, running a WASHINGTON PROTECTION RACKET for Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan before it went belly-up during the S&L Crisis - a debacle that cost American taxpayers an estimated TWO BILLION DOLLARS for Keating's Lincoln S&L losses, alone.)
IN McCain's defense, THE OTHER FOUR of the "Keating Five" Senators.... WERE DEMOCRATS!
Nominal Democrat "leaders" NANCY PELOSI and HARRY REID this week REPRISE the role of the KEATING FOUR Democrats RUNNING A PROTECTION RACKET for Keating's S&L... Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (et al) all but bowing down and Kissing King Henry Paulson's feet, in order to shower Paulson with, not one billion, not two billion, but SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION taxpayer DOLLARS in the Paulson-Pelosi-Bush "CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY for Wall St. in 2008" WALL Street millionaires BAILOUT BILL!
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Loving John McCain
By Eric Alterman & George Zornick
June 19, 2008 (the July 7, 2008 edition of The Nation)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/alterman


<< But even though we might be taken with McCain personally, we would like to think that we would resist the urge to offer the sort of spontaneous testimonials to his character that have gushed from the pens of so many MSM journalists. These would include calling McCain "a cool dude" (Jake Tapper, Salon); "an original, imaginative, and at times inspiring candidate" (Jacob Weisberg, Slate); "a man of unshakable character, willing to stand up for his convictions" (the late R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times); "a man of intelligence, honor and enormous personal and political courage" (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek); "blunt, unyielding, deploying his principles.... What he does do is what he's always done, play it as straight as possible.... The maverick candidate still" (Terry Moran, ABC News's Nightline); "worldly-wise and witty, determined to follow the facts to the exclusion of ideology...willing to defy his own party and forge compromise...pragmatic in the service of the national interest...rises to passion when he believes that America's best values are at stake" (Michael Hirsch, Newsweek); "kind of like a Martin Luther" (Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball); "the perfect candidate to deal with what challenges we face as a country" (Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's Morning Joe); "rises above the pack...eloquent, as only a prisoner of war can be" (David Nyhan, Boston Globe); "the bravest candidate in the presidential race" (Dana Milbank, Washington Post); "an affable man of zealous, unbending beliefs" and "the hero [who] still does things his own way" (Richard Cohen, Washington Post); and who, in "an age of deep cynicism about politicians of both parties...is the rare exception who is not assumed to be willing to sacrifice personal credibility to prevail in any contest" (David Broder, Washington Post).

Believe us, we could go on (and on and on...). Suffice it to say that no candidate since John F. Kennedy, and perhaps none since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has enjoyed such cozy relations with the press. >>