OK, for once there has been some fitful pushback in the MSM against McCain's GOP-politics-as-usual attack ads. But the MSM has worked hard to avoid confirming the obvious comparison to the racist ads used against Harold Ford in '06. When they do acknowledge the comparison at all, they couch it in a question for debate and downplay that McCain's initial reaction to the racist anti-Ford ad was to hire the people who made it.
But I haven't seen media coverage of the most relevant information on the ad: McCain had ads ready to attack Obama over the troop visit either way; if he had gone, McCain was going to accuse him of politicizing the troops. Hat tip to Matthew Yglesias.
This information should tell the voting public everything we need to know about who is the craven political hack here. So, here's a "debate" question the MSM could use: Why aren't they talking about this?