The McCain Mutiny--WaPo

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The McCain Mutiny

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 10, 2006; 8:12 AM

John McCain was expecting journalists to start slapping him around, and he hasn't been disappointed.

As he gears up for a likely presidential campaign, the Arizona senator knows that reporters and columnists -- whom he jokingly described last year as "my base" -- have to prove their independence this time around. Media folks spent so much time riding on McCain's bus and listening to his rolling press conferences in the 2000 campaign that they were often mocked for swooning over the candidate.

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McCain said he fights for what he believes in and defended his rapprochement with the Rev. Jerry Falwell, whom he had branded an "agent of intolerance" six years ago.

As a cultural watershed, though, nothing compares with Jon Stewart asking McCain last week on the "Daily Show": "Are you freaking out on us? . . . You're killing me. I feel it's a condoning of Falwell's crazy-making."

KURTZ'S THESIS IS MCCAIN GOT A FREE RIDE WITH THE PRESS LAST TIME, BUT THE 4TH ESTATE IS IN MUTINY NOW. GOOD. THEY BOTH DESERVE IT. EXCELLENT SNAPSHOT OF WHERE MCCAIN IS IN ALL THIS MESS.

:crazy:

lock-step party, a safeguard from this administration's dangerous, destructive policies.

I'm convinced now that McCain has either been the victim of extortion or he has been bought.

Huffington speaks for me: