The Daily Obsession: Un-Maverick-y McCain
Yesterday, John McCain took the media on a revisionist time travel trip to reminding everyone of what a maverick he is by telling Newsweek, “I don’t consider myself a maverick.” This comment was, shockingly, taken with a grain of salt to anyone who lived the 2008 presidential election. How many raised pundit eyebrows can you count in the following video?
The Morning Joe crew were first in line to call McCain out on his backtracking, with Way Too Early host Willie Geist being almost too flabbergasted to comment. Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann didn’t let the comment die on primetime, and the CNN crew reported their own shock through Campbell Brown and John King. Fox News, on the other hand, was conspicuously silent on the matter—they were apparently still stuck on yesterday’s daily obsession: nuclear weapons.
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