McCain's moderators, the AP's Ron Fournier and Liz Sidoti, greeted McCain with a box of Dunkin' Donuts. "We spend quite a bit of time with you on the back of the Straight Talk Express asking you questions, and what we've decided to do today was invite everyone else along on the ride," Sidoti explained. "We even brought you your favorite treat."
McCain opened the offering. "Oh, yes, with sprinkles!" he said.
Sidoti passed him a cup. "A little coffee with a little cream and a little sugar,"
she said.
and felt free to intimate that reporters better be nice to get good seats on the new straight talk express plane:
McCain senior aide Mark Salter quipped this morning that "only the good reporters" would get to sit in the specially-configured section for interviews. "You'll have to earn it," he said..
and after much of Obama's coverage had been incessant pounding on fist bumps and pastors and after McCain had made a huge point that Obama had not been to Iraq recently, now that Obama has gone to Iraq and gotten much good press, McCain is very angry and accuses the press of being in love with Obama, when prior to his visit coming off well the press had endlessly speculated that he would have a huge gaffe on the trip.
McCain has previously called the national media "his base" and is feeling a little cheated upon.
Meanwhile, the press covers up for McCain(as usual)as he frequently refers to Czechoslovakia and gets the dates and sequence of events wrong on the surge.
But now that McCain has thrown the MSM under the Straight Talk Express, he is going to get a little more even-handed coverage and will discover that the media can bite back.
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