John McCain, All-Around Good Guy

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If John McCain does something hypocritical in a forest, does anyone notice?

As everyone knows, John McCain is just a great guy. So great, apparently, that he can criticize negative ads one moment, then turn around and issue his own attack ads the next, and no one will report it. According to a biting Media Matters piece:

Numerous print media outlets reported on Sen. John McCain’s assertion following the Iowa caucuses that “[t]he lesson of this election in Iowa is that … negative campaigns don’t work.” But none of those articles noted that McCain has run negative TV and Web ads against Mitt Romney.

Numerous attack ads, indeed. McCain just released another one today, which says, in part: “Mitt Romney, leading? He’d rather call lawyers.”

The main-stream media, tell the full story? They’d rather just keep loving John McCain. Let’s hope they at least report the “Let’s stay in Iraq for 100 years” comment.