Frank Rich really covers my disgust of the media Sunday, Aug 17 2008 

Media Jonathan 2:24 pm

in writes, that on the campaign trail “McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries’ names wrong, forgets things he’s said only hours or days before and is frequently just confused.” Most Americans still don’t know it is precisely for this reason that the McCain campaign has now shut down the press’s previously unfettered access to the candidate on the Straight Talk Express.

One can only hope that the media rights itself (no pun intended) before the election so that the country doesn’t make an even larger tragedy happen than the media helped cause by getting Bush elected, twice.

 

 

McCain really isn’t liked or respected Tuesday, Aug 5 2008 

McCain Jonathan 2:25 pm

Even among Republicans; (Note that I stole this list from a commenter on politico. I don’t vouch for it, though I have heard of most of these.)

Republicants comments about the party’s presumptive nominee, John McCain.

“His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, that should disqualify him.” - Former Senator Bob Smith, R-NH
“The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic.” - Senator Thad Cochran, R-MS
“I decided I didn’t want this guy anywhere near a trigger.” - Senator Pete Domenici, R-NM
“There’s nothing redeeming about John McCain…he’s a hypocrite.” - Former House GOP Whip Tom DeLay
“He is a vicious person. They so disliked him that they wouldn’t support him.” - Former Representative Charles LeBoutillier, R-NY
“What happens if he gets angry in crisis in the presidency? It’s the president’s job to negotiate and stay calm. I just don’t see that he has that quality.” - Former Arizona GOP Chairman John Hinz
“John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism, and youth. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in ’straight talk.’” - Conservative blowhard Ann Coulter
“Hardheaded is one way to say it. Arrogant is another way to say it. Hubristic is another way to say it. Too proud for his own good is another way to say it. It’s a quality about him that disturbs me.” - Larry Wilkerson, former chief aide to Colin Powell
An “embarrassment to the party.” - Arizona GOP State Senator Susan Johnson
“I don’t like him at all.” - Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-CO
“It just seems like everything we did, John was someplace else…In my mind, he is not a conservative.” - Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IL
“He is the anti-conservative. He instinctively sides against conservatives and relishes poking them in the eye.” - Conservative blowhard David Limbaugh
“If either John McCain or Mike Huckabee gets the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party, it’s going to change it forever, be the end of it.” - Conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh