Crusty, curmudgeonly commentator Jack Cafferty of CNN has tossed a spanner in the works of the MSM. In his most recent commentary piece, McCain's many shortcomings as commander in chief are laid bare:
http://www.cnn.com/...
Like most Kossacks, I look forward to KO's special comments. While I love the spectacle of a cable news host ripping Bush and McCain a new pair, Countdown is speaking to the choir. KO's rating success is rooted in the notion that Countdown is a tonic to Faux News.
CNN, while loathed by the far-right, is the defacto "centrist" voice out there (although I don't share the MSM's definition of center). Cafferty didn't turn on Bush until after the 2004 election, and has never been a left-winger in his long career. So when Cafferty says things like:
It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president.
and
I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin's eyes and see into his soul.
George Bush's record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.
He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.
I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.
...Perhaps the worm has turned. Can Wolf, Soledad, Miles, David G., etc. continue to press the McCain "unassailable war hero" meme with Cafferty calling them out in-house?