2008 Maverick Moment of the Day
posted by on August 19 at 9:05 AM
Here’s a long, interesting story from a writer for the Phoenix New Times who is decidedly not part of the McCain fan club. She’s been on the McCain beat forever:
I’ve been a writer and editor at New Times for 15 years. For much of that time, I wrote about Arizona politics, which is to say that I wrote about John McCain. It’s still odd to see the guy in the spotlight, because for quite a while, I was pretty much the only one covering him.I never did fall for him in the way reporters fall for politicians, probably because he wasn’t much to fall for back in the early 1990s. In those days, McCain was still rehabilitating the image he’d later sell to the national media. He was known then for cavorting in the Bahamas with Charlie Keating, rather than for fighting for campaign finance reform and limited government spending…
I never saw this here, but apparently McCain had a bout with plagiarism last week, too, when he cribbed his speech on Georgia from Wikipedia.
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I think someone let him out of his cone of silence - and put him in the cone of stupidity.
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McCain is a better choice than some empty-suit w/ no experience. Fuk No-Bama
Ah, my home town alt-weekly. Definitely not up to the standards of The Stranger.
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