Again this morning, David Gregory and a parade of adoring "analysts" on MSNBC are asserting that John McCain has, of course, established his credentials and experience on foreign policy, while Barack Obama "still needs to pass the foreign policy test."
And yet, these same reporters and analysts overlook the rather inconvenient fact, that for someone who supposedly is so knowledgeable about the world, John McCain makes constant, blatant, serious mistakes about fundamental things that happen to be about ... the world.
He doesn't grasp the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, something he has demonstrated repeatedly, to the collective yawns of the mainstream press.
Just yesterday, he once again demonstrated that his knowledge of Europe comes to a screeching halt shortly after the Reagan administration. For instance, McCain still thinks there is a Czechoslovakia, a country that ceased to exist in 1993, when the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (a/k/a Slovakia) were born. Not only does McCain think that Czechoslovakia still exits, he wants to put a missile shield there, "and he doesn't care who objects." Well who would object? There are no people in that country to object, because it doesn't exist anymore... And does this pause the media narrative? Not a bit. The MSM continue to give McCain the benefit of the doubt, for no other reason than because they find McCain so very likable, and "authentic." McCain has built his media base by giving them the one thing, besides perks like box seats at ballgames and invites to the White House Christmas party, that they crave more than anything else: access, and even that, he has begun to retract, by forcing brown nosing reporters to "earn" their way into the good seats on the Straight Talk Air Express...) I'm guessing Gregory and his colleagues are only too happy to oblige.
For more on the media's determination to give McCain a free ride, see Media Matters. Learn more about the real John McCain here. |
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