MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and Fox News’ Special Report with Brit Hume — referred to an AP story quoting McCain’s March 2003 prediction on Hardball that U.S. forces would “absolutely, absolutely” be greeted as liberators. http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/McCain_media_creation/2008/02/03/69766.htmlYea I know...newsmax. But this is the kind of stuff we need to keep as reference material in case McCain is the Pub nominee!
According to a former McCain aide, the media adore him because he gives reporters total access and because, while he is admirably strong on national security issues, he is as liberal as a Democrat on many key domestic issues. A December 13, 1999 profile of McCain in Time magazine actually admitted that reporters sometimes cover for him by not reporting controversial things he tells them on the record “because they don’t want to see him flame out and burn up a great story.”
“Romney was from the very beginning tagged by the media as a plastic candidate who would do anything to get elected,” Keene says. “Reporters didn’t like the fact that he had a lot of his own money, liberals—and some conservatives—didn’t like the idea of an observant religious candidate and particularly a Mormon running for president, and everyone joined in to label the man a flip-flopper.” If he makes it as the nominee, he will have defied all the odds of going against the establishment elite and winning!