Meet The New McCain
Same as the Old McCain, just repackaged and caricatured by … who else? Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Mark Salter at The Atlantic:
“I think the media is driven by a need to see this history happen,” he said. “And I think they’ve rationalized it, they think they’re on the level with McCain, that he’s not the old McCain. But he is the old McCain. He just doesn’t know what happened to the old press corps.”
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MS: Look, I think, starting with the Democratic primary, there has been a different standard for Obama than there has been for any candidate running against Barack Obama. And maybe this should have set off more warning bells with me. I think much of the media has a thumb on the scale for Obama. I think the thumb has been there the entire time. There are many honorable exceptions, I don’t mean to tar everybody, but I think there’s one standard for us, and one standard for Obama. He has run more negative ads than McCain has run ads. They run from the quite misleading to the blatantly untrue.
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MS: Does she have vast foreign policy experience? No. No, she does not have vast foreign policy experience. What appealed to McCain about her was, you know, everybody was talking about a change election. Every challenger who ever has run a race has run on a change platform. Everybody essentially runs as a reformer. When you’re a guy like McCain who really has fought for reform, he found enormously appealing a woman who ran as a change agent and then fought to be one in office. If it was going to be a foreign policy pick, then it would be somebody else, I guess, but it wasn’t. And she learns quickly. She learns quickly.
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JG: Do you agree with Bill Kristol when he said that McCain should open up to the press in the final weeks?
MS: So we can get stories that McCain is answering questions that aren’t of interest to the voters?
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:00 pm Comments (0) on Monday, October 20, 2008
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