John McCain's Campaign Enters the Spin Cycle
It's amazing how the Beltway politics/media merry-go-round feeds upon itself.
In just a few hours yesterday, the following vicious cycle occurred…
* In Monday morning's paper, The New York Times runs a story reporting on McCain campaign manager Rick Davis' consulting work for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which netted him $2 million.
* Davis and McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt hastily organize a conference call with political reporters, in which they accuse the Times of being "an organization that has made a decision to cast aside it's journalistic integrity to advocate for the defeat of John McCain."
* Blogger Ben Smith from Politico, who was in on the conference call, immediately writes a blog piece criticizing the McCain camp for several inaccurate statements made during the call.
* McCain spokesman Brian Rogers announces that Politico is also "in the tank" for Barack Obama.
* The New York Times writes an online news article about how the McCain camp "lashed out at The New York Times on Monday, accusing it of dropping its journalistic standards."
* Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Times, does an interview with Politico defending his paper.
* Hundreds of media sources, from The Wall Street Journal to The Atlantic to The Washington Post report on the brouhaha.
* Everyone takes a break and has lunch.
I'm not sure what happened after that because I got a really bad headache and had to lie down.
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McCain just told us not to judge his vote on the bailout and factor it into his campaign for presidency. So… if the media reports on his record or statements, I guess they can fuck off?
The Times is seen by McCain supporters as elitist, so McCain loses nothing by bashing them.
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/28937/Steve-Schmidt/Steve-Schmidt-On-First-Amendment/Steve-Schmidt-On-New-York-Times/Pro-Obama-advocacy
What a bunch of whiners. Seriously now. Get some balls, McCain camp. Either admit or refute the charges made by the Times in the article instead of trying to distract the public with your incessant whining.
Geez.
the new york times is an abomination. so is the washington post, chicago tribune, newsweek, time, the economist, the weekly standard, etc. thank god for the new york post and the washington times. everything else is just "comedy central."
It's like the financial system, but with news. If we keep lending back and forth to each other, we don't have to actually produce anything to make millions.