| The Ghost of RubangB said: McCain has been America's celebrity POW, celebrity senator, and celebrity maverick for decades. He was a media darling. First sitting senator to host SNL. The media ate out of his hands his whole career. When he said Chelsea Clinton was ugly because Janet Reno was her father, most media outlets refused to reprint the joke, and just said "McCain said a bad joke and had to apologize to the president."
EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention McCain's joke about a woman enjoying being raped. If that had more media coverage, McCain would've been hurting even more with the female vote. But instead, Al Franken's rape jokes were all over the news in Minnesota, when writing jokes was his fucking job.
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Indeed, especially before the main election season when McCain was replaced with a typical Republican fearmonger the media absolutely adored him. People who think the media hated McCain from the start must have amnesia.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
