I definitely called that one right. According to Jamison Forser of Media Matters:
Well, guess who owns John McCain's "rustic cabin" -- the one with the guest house and the pool? Cindy McCain, the wealthy and politically connected Arizona beer heiress McCain married shortly after leaving his first wife, and just in time to move to Arizona to run for Congress.
But this is where liberal journalists like Forser and bloggers like Digby go wrong. For liberals, the only point about McCain is the media's "hypocrisy" in ignoring McCain's finances while they obsess about the finances and lifestyle of Democrats like John Kerry and John Edwards. Why not focus more on the media's romance novel-like swooning over McCain, their determined efforts to nurture his campaign, and make everything comfortable for him. John McCain is the media's "StudMuffin" just as much as he's Cindy McCain's StudMuffin and he leads the coddled life of someone who expects everyone to love him the same way his wife and the media love him.
And if people treat McCain any other kind of way, he'll throw a fit.
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Oh, the media loves McCain, the media loves McCain … why didn't he win last time he ran if this was true? This fickle media love affair with McCain is an indication of just where the media has ended up in the US state of affairs. It is said he is a maverick and works outside the box. No, Ron Paul is a maverick and works outside the box and the media doesn't give him the time of day. McCain is a war hero and can see the US still in Iraq in a hundred years. I thought that was what Bush was doing and the media hates Bush but dotes on McCain. The media always gets their feathers ruffled when a candidate gets mad and loses his or her temper. McCain has a short fuse but the media just looks at that as an endearing quality of straight talking. If Hillary blew her fuse the media would be all over that. The only reason that the media is in love with McCain is that he is liberal on the same issues that the press is and not in bed with the religious right. The guy is 72 years old. Didn't everyone make fun of Reagan and his sleeping during meetings and forgetting where he was in the White House? Or has everyone forgot about that and still worship him as the great communicator? Let's see what happens after the primaries.
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