‘JV Squad’ left to cover McCain
The McCain campaign has taken to mocking the press corps left behind to cover the Arizona senator while Barack Obama is overseas, Hotline reports. Here are the luggage tags McCain staffers jokingly put on reporters’ bags yesterday: Chuck Todd and company at MSNBC’s First Read comment, “Why does McCain think belittling his own press corps ...
The McCain campaign has taken to mocking the press corps left behind to cover the Arizona senator while Barack Obama is overseas, Hotline reports. Here are the luggage tags McCain staffers jokingly put on reporters' bags yesterday:
The McCain campaign has taken to mocking the press corps left behind to cover the Arizona senator while Barack Obama is overseas, Hotline reports. Here are the luggage tags McCain staffers jokingly put on reporters’ bags yesterday:
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Chuck Todd and company at MSNBC’s First Read comment, “Why does McCain think belittling his own press corps is a good idea?” Good question.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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