McCain Needs To Host Another Media BBQ
Oh...oh. If these reactions by Politico's Roger Simon and Time's Joe Klein are any indication, the McCain campaign may be overreaching in its attacks on his former base, the press.
As Klein writes:
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.
Yes, they are. But such tactics have been all too effective in the past.