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McCain surprised by media bias?

This is one area where I don’t have any sympathy for McAmnesty.  From Bloomberg:

The longtime love affair between John McCain and what he once called his “base” — the national news media — is on the rocks.

McCain’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, yesterday lashed out at what he deemed “offensive” and “demeaning” coverage and questions from reporters after McCain’s running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, confirmed her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

“It used to be that a lot of those smears and the crap on the Internet stayed out of the newsrooms of serious journalists,” Schmidt said at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schmidt’s criticism is the latest example in the unraveling of what was once a fond relationship between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the media. Starting in the 2000 Republican primaries, the Arizona senator became a media sensation by chatting up the press in the back of his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus. The national press corps freely mingled with McCain for hours on the bus, with no topic off limits.

More recently, though, McCain, 72, has accused news organizations such as the New York Times, Time magazine and the NBC network of being unfair to him. The campaign even considered pulling out of one of the three presidential debates because it would be moderated by Tom Brokaw, a former NBC News anchorman. …

Don’t get me wrong: the MSM’s bias has been one reason that many of us on the right who have been underwhelmed by McLame have rallied around him.  The NYT‘s Page One smear job based on innuendos with no proof and tons of “anonymous sources” (not a single named source) have made people like me resolved to vote for McCain just to flip off the MSM.

Having said that, McCain should have learned a lesson from this: when you’re trashing fellow Republicans, the MSM loves you; but when you poormouth the Obamessiah or threaten his “birthright” of the Oval Office, you’re the MSM’s Public Enemy #1.

September 2, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | McCain, media bias