ALONG WITH RATFUCKING COMES THE WHINING

The GOP has been whining about unfair press coverage for decades so its no surprise that McCain is beginning to do the same, especially because the polls show he and the GOP will have a bad time this Fall. From Jonathan Martin in Politico:

Since winning the GOP nomination, McCain has been on the receiving end of a number of tough investigatory articles. With no horse race to cover, the press has devoted much of its coverage of the Republican nominee to scrutinizing McCain’s 25 years in Congress.

At the same time, there has not been similar such treatment of Obama — because reporters have been largely focused on the daily back-and-forth of the epic Democratic primary, and also because Obama’s shorter stay on the national stage has left him with less of a record to defend.

Whatever the reasons, McCain aides are exasperated at the difference in coverage.

Despite all we've heard about McCain's temper problem, McCain's hacks insist that there's no issue there:

And when The Washington Post printed a lengthy piece in April revisiting McCain’s well-known and well-documented outbursts of temper, Salter described it as “99 percent fiction.”

“In sum, this is one of the more shoddy examples of journalism I've ever encountered,” he wrote in an e-mail that was published by National Review. “But for the infamous [Times] story, I'd say it was the worst smear job on McCain I'd ever seen.”

I think Martin is flat-out wrong about the coverage Obama has received. If you look at the Rev. Wright coverage, you'll see that it was MASSIVE.