The AP, today: “The independent label sticks to John McCain because he antagonizes fellow Republicans and likes to work with Democrats.”

And, of course, because a large chunk of the national press adores him.

At a gathering of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (according to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post), “moderators Ron Fournier and Liz Sidoti, greeted McCain with a box of Dunkin’ Donuts. ‘We spend quite a bit of time with you on the back of the Straight Talk Express asking you questions, and what we’ve decided to do today was invite everyone else along on the ride,’ Sidoti explained. ‘We even brought you your favorite treat.’

McCain opened the offering. ‘Oh, yes, with sprinkles!’ he said.”

But hey, McCain invited the press to his big house a month ago for a cookout, so I suppose they had to be nice to him.

As Chris Mathews said, the press is “McCain’s base.”

And it still amazes me that I see newspaper articles that refer to the Straight Talk Express without putting it in quotation marks.

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