"The UGLY New McCain" by Richard Cohen - Former "In the Bag for McCain" Reporter now has doubts

[symbolman]

Richard Cohen admits he was In the Bag for McCain.. I guess he's always written favorably for the old McCreep.. but NO MORE..

This is eviscerating.

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McCain has turned ugly. His dishonesty would be unacceptable in any politician, but McCain has always set his own bar higher than most. He has contempt for most of his colleagues for that very reason: They lie. He tells the truth. He internalizes the code of the McCains -- his grandfather, his father: both admirals of the shining sea. He serves his country differently, that's all -- but just as honorably. No more, though.

I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain. Guilty. Those doing the accusing usually attributed my feelings to McCain being accessible. This is the journalist-as-puppy school of thought: Give us a treat, and we will leap into a politician's lap.

Not so. What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he packaged it in the McCain story -- that man, beaten to a pulp, who chose honor over freedom. This had nothing to do with access. It had to do with integrity.

McCain has soiled all that. His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[napi21]

1. There have been several reporters who published nasty articles

about McNuts recently. Here's a link to one that was in the Pgh. Post Gazette the other day. The Gazette usually is pretty RW, so this one really surprised ME!


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08256/911583-153.stm

[symbolman]

3. Thanks for that

I think that some of the cable guys were talking this one up in advance as being The Shit on McCain's Fan :)

[WinkyDink]

4. "Nasty" is a pejorative, as in "mean, unwarranted".

[symbolman]

2. Has everyone already seen this?

This is a total turnaround for this guy.. a real slap in McCain's face.

Good question: Did McCain spend all that time in a BOX as a POW fighting for a future where he will LIE to the American people, and invite someone on the ticket who is, as this man says, performing nearly a TREASONOUS function ala McCain?

Heavy stuff folks.