A FREE PASS FOR McCAIN -- by Steve Nadis
Yesterday I heard an interesting interview of the authors (David Brock and Paul Waldman) of a book critical of John McCain. The media, they claim, has given McCain a free pass. In one month, they found that he was referred to as a "maverick" 1200 times--not by his staff but by so-called journalists who are not paid to do PR for the candidate. Has McCain earned that moniker? Not according to the authors who say that McCain has voted with his party 85% of the time, which puts him squarely in the middle of the pack. By that standard if he’s a maverick so are most of the people in Congress, and we know that’s not true.
