I don't think McCain's base hates the media. Sarah Palin's base, on the other hand, despises the "liberal media elite". John McCain's base is moderate Republicans and Independent voters. Sarah Palin's base is traditionalist conservatives looking for someone to pick up the mantle of George W. Bush.

"What are going to write about the speech? Something bad or something good? It better be something good."

The only answer a journalist can give this person is: "I'll write something fair and accurate."

Maybe they also want FOX NEWS [FIXED NOISE OR THE TABLOID NEWS OF TV] to stop reporting as well since ALL FIXED NOISE does is go on AD INFINITUM about the GREAT McCAIN AND PALIN! Do you think these a@@h*les would then believe the press is biased? Oh no, not on that cable channel where all they do is COME DOWN HARD ON OBAMA!

I can't wait until Obama wins and shuts these STUPIDOS up for good! Wonder what McCain will say then? And I pray that Palin will go back to her wilderness so she can try to save her job up there!

then you are doing your job. Keep it up.

until you realize you're not getting your way is not good natured.

I'm glad at least that this whole escapade gives lie to the McCain as maverick, McCain as a different kind of republican, McCain as good guy bullshit.

Like the republican base he is nice as long as things are going his way.

Don't come to an agreement on Town Halls? He'll fling mud.

Don't give him unaldulterated good press? Then you are no longer his friends and you can't get any airtime.

Down in the polls? So those robocalls aren't so evil afterall...

Anyone can be gracious and decent when there up and doing well. Its not that McCain or his supporters have been changed, they are now just tested. And they have failed in an epic way.

I hope he goes back to the Senate in disgrace for the way he has behaved and that the republican base is duly chastened. But that won't happen, they just go after Obama like nobody's business.

For the most part, mainsteam media are attempting to portray events factually. Unfortunately for McCain suporters right now, reality favors Barack Obama by a large margin. The narrative that exists in their heads (i.e., that Obama is a Muslim terrorist who built bombs with Bill Ayers when he was 8 years old) will not be appearing in reputable newspapers, magazines, TV news reports, or web sites. It's not a conspiracy to conceal "THE TRUTH" about Barack Obama - it's just that McCain supporters' perception of Obama is inaccurate, and their hatred is misdirected. Reporters, like scientists and intellectuals threaten this element of society because they provide information that is not always favorable to our preconceived beliefs and ideas.

...the repugnants have to deal with the Bush legacy instead of their usual slash&burn BS. The best part is they are trying to use the old tactics and few are buying it. They're so pretty, oh so pretty vacant and we don't care!

Because these Pavlovian half-wits start paying attention a month before the election, responding to Sister Sarah the Shiny Object, and find that not everyone is looking for a reflection of themselves, but for someone smart enough and truly prepared to be our president in a wildy complex, not-so-shiny point in history, they cry "bias?"

Someone quiz these people!

If asked, could they even define bias?

On election day, at each polling place, maybe a pollworker should be assigned to periodically stroll the lines and call out names like, "Doug the Dog Catcher!," "Patty the Pilot," "Ed the Electrician." Anyone who answers should be asked to leave.

Our democracy has suffered enough from this catering to the inattentive/low-information/undecided/dumb-ass voter.

Everthing has stooped to an embarrassing low, and yet the process costs more than ever.

We don't just need "change" from our next president.

We need it much more from ourselves and our fellow participants. We've become less than what a democracy deserves and requires.

What the hell are they pissed off at CNN for? Those f*ckers have given Palin a total pass on both Troopergate and her husband's Anti-American activities.

On CNN's website right now, there is an article by Campbell Brown defending Palin's clothing expenses.

I imagine those people who are criticizing these media outlets for being biased aren't even watching them, so how would they know a bias exists in the first place?

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

-- Stephen Colbert

Reporting the truth and all for a change , why they sould have left the CBS/Katie Couric Tapes locked up. Thing would have been much better.

Everything seemed to be just ducky between McCain and the media until he chose Palin. He had to sequester Palin from the media so they couldn't determine how vacuous she really is. McCain's toadies convinced him that he could use the same contemptuous tactics Bush uses towards the media without repercussions. He was wrong.

This is totally understandable. The press seems to have become a little less inclined to blatant stenography for the right and lazy false equivalences. People have become so used to that -- while still hearing a constant drumbeat of "liberal media" -- that any movement toward actual reporting seems like a huge leftward swing.

This is exasperated by the fact that the McCain campaign is -- as near as I can tell through my admitted bias -- running a much nastier, much more dishonest campaign, with a much weaker actual platform than Obama. It's hard to report on that and not sound liberally biased.

On some level, they think the media is supposed to make the candidates look equally appealing ... or make it clear how much better their candidate is. It's what they've gotten used to seeing.

Of course, McCain's biggest blunder was the Palin pick. But alienating a friendly press corps is surely second -- especially since he could have minimized the fallout from his biggest mistake if he'd kept the press happy, and therefore compliant with his wishes. (You know, like they were until 60 days ago.)

Who was it who warned about picking fights with an opponant who buys ink by the barrel?