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.