Desperate McCain Attacks Media and Polls

What does one do when they are wrong on all the issues, an increasing number of news reports come out showing a serious conflict of interest on the part of his campaign manager, and the polls show he is losing? For John McCain the answer is obvious–attack the press and the pollsters.

John McCain attacked The New York Times for reporting that campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month. As Ben Smith points out,

The statement is basically a non-denial…

What  the statement doesn’t dispute is the actual news in the story: the $15,000 monthly payments from Freddie Mac, which began while Davis was still running the firm. You can judge the news value of that for yourself.

Marc Ambinder points out that while McCain concentrates on attacking The New York Times, “The Times was but one of three news entities who reported the same story this morning.”

John McCain also attacked a Washington Post-ABC News poll which showed Obama extending his lead to 52% to 43%. Several other polls are also showing increased gains for Obama. It has become even harder for McCain to ignore the polls now that a new Fox News Poll has Obama leading 45% to 39%. Chris Cillizza believes that his poor showing in the polls is the reason behind McCain’s attempt to avoid debating Barack Obama as scheduled on Friday.

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    deshaun says:

    what will mccains next desperate stunk be? what a looser he is…

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