Dear KC Star: More of this guy, please!

I'm not sure if this blogpost from the Primebuzz was an earnest attempt at reportage or a brilliant effort at satire, but however it was intended I certainly hope we see more of it.  Either way, the post perfectly encapsulates the prevailing media attitude toward John McCain's candidacy.  

It would be hard to come up with a put-on more convincingly intended to skewer maintream coverage of McCain than a post entitled "McCain's rally impressed me" which lauds the septuagenarian Senator's Kansas City campaign event because no violent factional melees broke out in the audience:

 ...rallies in my own country are often attended by far more people than what I saw at the Union Station. There is also no vetting of those who attend the meetings, a practice that, sometimes, allows criminals to enter the rally venues with crude weapons.  In some cases, supporters clash at such rallies.

­

Precisely the sort of bar-lowering that the media consistently do for McCain.  "No crude weapons at his rally. McCain is impressive!"  We're supposed to marvel at McCain's event, I assume, because it didn't turn into a Birmingham v. Leeds United festival of hooliganism.  Color me unimpressed.

I suppose it's possible that the fellow who wrote this post, Samuel Siringi, is the genuine article --a wide-eyed outsider viewing the Presidential campaign carnival without any experience or context.  I can't help but believe, however, that this is some sort of clever Borat Sagdiyev 2.0 stunt aimed squarely at the fawning fluffery that animates much coverage of McCain.

More from Mr. Siringi, please.­ 

__________________________

Your vote:

No votes yet