McCain Turns Sour on His Onetime Media `Base' as Election Nears

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McCain Turns Sour on His Onetime Media `Base' as Election Nears

By Heidi Przybyla
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The longtime love affair between John McCain and what he once called his ``base'' -- the national news media -- is on the rocks.

McCain's campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, yesterday lashed out at what he deemed ``offensive'' and ``demeaning'' coverage and questions from reporters after McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, confirmed her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

``It used to be that a lot of those smears and the crap on the Internet stayed out of the newsrooms of serious journalists,'' Schmidt said at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schmidt's criticism is the latest example in the unraveling of what was once a fond relationship between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the media. Starting in the 2000 Republican primaries, the Arizona senator became a media sensation by chatting up the press in the back of his ``Straight Talk Express'' campaign bus. The national press corps freely mingled with McCain for hours on the bus, with no topic off limits.

More recently, though, McCain, 72, has accused news organizations such as the New York Times, Time magazine and the NBC network of being unfair to him. The campaign even considered pulling out of one of the three presidential debates because it would be moderated by Tom Brokaw, a former NBC News anchorman.

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[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Yeah...serious journalists never smeared a Dem

So, why pick on McSame and Failin'?

:sarcasm:

[KharmaTrain]

2. That All Changed When Drugdge Put Up His First Siren

The irony here is beyond description...the hypocrisy so glaring that one can't help to sit back and just watch these goons fall on their own petards.

The pick of Palin was one of the most callous and cynical moves in American political history...Gramps desperation to get the fundies votes and money was his undoing, not the blogs. But it's always fun to shoot the messenger.

Now, where was Mr. Schmidt's criticisms about the Obama is a Muslim smears? Wanna bet he did handsprings when that started to get viral and show up in polling?

What a WATB...

:nopity: