Liberty Maven

Apparently, I’m not the only one noticing John McCain’s free pass by the main stream media. Matt Welch the editor-in-chief of Reason Magazine authored  an article for the New York Post eloquently describing the very same thing.

For those of us who have been writing critically about John McCain over the years, keeping tabs on the 2008 presidential campaign through the media is a bit like getting your war news via Saddam Hussein’s old information minister: The street names may be right, but the big picture looks funny. “No other modern politician has received as much favorable press as John McCain has in the past decade,” write (plainly irritated) David Brock and Paul Waldman in “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media.” “The rules are simply different for McCain.”

Boy, are they. Though he flip-flops and prevaricates like any politician, McCain all but has the phrase “straight talker” tattooed on his skull-plate. A lifetime Beltway insider and third-generation naval officer with an heiress wife and an heiress mother is still referred to, without irony, as a “Man of the People.” And though his heavily interventionist governing philosophy, both at home and abroad, is spelled out in his five easy-to-find books, he continues to receive mash notes from newspapers like the Des Moines Register for being a man who, because “he knows war,” would be “reluctant to start one.”

Welch is certainly an authority when it comes to John McCain. He authored, “McCain: The Myth of a Maverick“, which examines the McCain phenomenon in depth.

If McCain were actually researched by each voter it is hard to believe his opponent would not win in a landslide.