McCain campaign loses its shit

Yesterday the New York Time broke the brains of the McCain campaign. Again. It happens a lot. But they really freaked out this time. They really didn't like the story on Rick Davis lobbying for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for a cool $2 million. They really didn't like all the quotes from Fannie and Freddie bigwigs who said they were paying Davis for access to McCain. They brought their madness to a fine froth.

"But whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign...It is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and advocate for the defeat of one candidate and the election of another." Steve Schmidt raged. Rick Davis stuttered and mumbled through a defense that had him claiming the loosest of ties to Fannie/Freddie and inventing a malady known as "Rick Davis envy".

Then Schmidt launched into a tirade about all the Obama scandals everyone should be covering. The Politico was all too happy to fact check them and deride them for their absence of fact. Schmidt's response? "You are in the tank for Obama." Because actual journalistic standards of integrity aren't supposed to involve fact checking what the McCain campaign says.

They've gone meta. They want coverage of the campaign to be about coverage of the campaign. They're lying about lies. Tristram McCain needs the election to be about anything other than issues. The election needs to be about the election. Good luck with that John, I'm sure when the voters go into that booth the thing they'll be most worried about is whether the Politico's bullshit filter was set too high.