Frank Rich at The New York Times draws a bead on John “Wrong Way” McCain, whom he deems chief among “the unrepentant blunderers” who dug us deeply into the twin holes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Notes Rich: “Americans … want to see the fine print after eight years of fiasco with little accounting. While McCain and company remain frozen where they were in 2001, many of their fellow citizens have learned from the Iraq tragedy.”
In noting Rich’s broadside, Steve Benen at Political Animal wonders why, given his long record of bellicose ineptitude, Wrong-Way McCain keeps getting invited to broadcast his ignorance of foreign policy via the Sunday morning political talk shows. Today marks McCain’s 14th Sunday-morning appearance since President Obama’s inauguration, notes Benen: “Not bad for a senator in the minority, who isn’t in the party leadership, who has no role in any important negotiations, and who has offered no significant pieces of legislation.”
The mainstream media often mistakes septic tanks for oracles, but McCain is a particularly odiferous sack of effluent — a military man with the boundless ego, lust for publicity and tactical genius of Gen. George Armstrong Custer.
At least Custer was among those with boots on the ground when the deal went down. McCain’s clearly spent too much time in — and on — the air to have a real sense of the real costs of warfare.
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Interesting notes about Magoo and the media. This is the same left-wing media that supposedly coddles Obama, describes anti-Obama ideas as racist and hides huge scandals like Acorn. Read (why I don’t exactly know) yesterday a Bill O’Really? column lauding Faux New’s 13th birthday, where he admits FNC is slanted to the conservative/right wing. What happened to “Fair and balanced, we report, you decide” as they used to say? I guess they’be been lying all along then…which is probably why nobody in his/her right mind considers Faux News a credible news source.
A note to Larry, too many old people believe Fox’s shit. A long, long time ago in a different America the media was believable. Not necessarily true today.
Maybe McCain pays the media for time; that is about the only reasonable answer.
He’s the head of the loyal opposition or at least the legal one. He could be an even bigger jibbering idiot an still get plenty of airtime. It’s called public discourse in the market place of ideas. Which being a “free market” means Republicans can bring any idiocy to their stall they want to push. It up to the rest of us to buy or not. Caveate emptor.
Everything you say is right on except your last sentence. McCain (unlike Cheney – Dick or Liz, W, etc.) has combat experience, and it’s fair to say that he’s familiar w/the cost of war. It doesn’t make his views any more useful to the public debate, though.