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Put their comments side by side
What would be useful would be to put the comments of individual members of the press side by side: what they said about Bush before the 2000/2004 elections and what they're saying about McCain in 2008. I think a lot of similarities between how they speak about these candidates would be quite evident--my reaction to media "wisdom" nowadays is that they are doing for McCain exactly what they did for Bush--presenting McCain as straightforward, committed, what have you. Put the heat on a different media individual every day and ask them to explain how, if they were so spectacularly wrong about Bush, we are supposed to take their assessments seriously now. Thye need to be taken to account, one by one.