So, let’s piggy back on my last post about the media’s fascination with trivial crap (lapel pins and crazy preachers) when it comes to the Democratic candidates, and talk about how John McSame gets to bypass that scrutiny and keep his foibles in the closet.

Seems as though McSame has his own crazy preacher, who makes Jeremiah Wright look like a Vienna Choir Boy, in the person of John Hagee. But, do we hear about this bat-shit crazy preacher, who McSame traveled to Texas to beg for his endorsement? No-because the media looooooves them some John McSame. Chris Matthews quote:

“The press loves John McCain. We’re his base.”

-Chris Matthews, MSNBC, Sept 10, 2006

Move on put up this list of facts a while ago. You may note that #9 mentions that sweetheart of a preacher:

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
1) John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
2) According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”
3) His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

4) McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”
5) The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.
6) He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.
7) Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”
8 ) McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

9) McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”

10) He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

And let’s not forget about the Keating Five.

It’s time to call a spade a spade. This man needs to be called out on the carpet for all his ignorance, his inconsistencies, his hubris and his errors in judgment. If the media isn’t going to do it, then it is up to us to get the word out there that this whack-job is the worst thing to come down the pike (that’s right-pike, not pipe) since George W Bush and, could very likely, be much worse.

Scream it from the roof-tops, Progressives!