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Falling Off The Tire Swing...
So i'm working on a special project about pundits and journalists falling out of love with McCain. Drop me a comment with your favorite moments, either print or video.
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Joe Klein is the classic, but Josh has been all over that. Andrew Sullivan loved McCain during the primaries and claimed to be conflicted at the beginning of the general and has swung pretty hard against him since...
October 15, 2008 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Were either of them at the sedona press bbq? Any one have a complete list of names for the reporters there?
October 15, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
No clue.
October 15, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
check the mccain blogette post about it
October 15, 2008 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Problem is, if they were on the swing in the first place, they are second rate. And will show it again soon. Wouldn't it be nice if they proved me wrong. They should try, it's not hard.
October 15, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lila,
My man Chris Mathews would be one to consider in this category. Back in 2000 it was Chris IMHO who did more to help portray McCain as a "straight talker" than any other member of the MSM.
Now Chris not only gets a tingle running up his leg when he listens to Barack, he spends night after night on Hardball calling out McCain surrogates for:
- McCain's attacks on Barack's "association"
- McCain's nomination of Palin who Chris considers grossly unqualified to be VP
And on and on...
Gregory
October 15, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Foster Wallace wrote what you might call a poetic political travelogue about riding McCain's bus back in 2000.
I don't know exactly how Wallace's opinion of McCain played out before he committed suicide earlier this year, but there's a wild guess and some links here.
October 15, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't know if this is the full list or not, but a start at least:
Dana Bash,CNN
Washington Post reporter Michael Shear
Reuters' Jeff Mason
CBS's Dante Higgins
Newsweek's Holly Bailey
Libby Copeland Washington Post Staff Writer
Joseph Curl, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Dan Nowicki , The Arizona Republic
Scott Orr, Newark Star-Ledger
Michael Cooper
Kelly Shannon, AP
Politico's Jonathan Martin
Laura Meckler, WSJ
Ana Marie Cox, TIME
Gerald Herbert, AP
Khue Bui, Newsweek
Libby Quaid - AP
Jill Zuckman - Chicago Tribune
Sasha Issenberg - Boston Globe
Adam Aigner - NBC
Mosheh Oinounou - FOX
Brett Hovell - ABC
Tasha Diakides, CNN (bylined on blog article)
Evan Glass , CNN (bylined on blog article)
David Jackson USA Today
Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard
http://three-cents.blogspot.com/2008/03/surprise-mccain-bbq-attendees-skew.html
October 15, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hilary your list is an eye-opener!
What is more remarkable, that so many were in the swing originally or that so many have swung off?
October 15, 2008 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny, I was just asking TheraP this morning if she knew of any site that was tracking all the McCain supporters that were bashing McCain...would be interesting to get a count.
October 15, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Christopher Hitchens:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/theruckus/archive/2008/10/13/the-moderate-voice-quote-of-the-day-christopher-hitchens-endorses-obama.aspx
October 15, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink