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Mutiny on the Staight Talk Express?

By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:21 PM 

Kevin Drum foresees a future Mutiny on The Straight Talk Express:

[G]o ahead, call me an optimist — I suspect that at some point there’s going to be a press backlash against McCain. His media image is a bubble, sustained by a sort of childlike faith, and once that faith starts to wobble — something that may already have started — the bubble is likely to pop. Before long, I suspect that a lot of reporters are going to start recognizing his faux openness as more faux than open.

What? McCain’s “base”?” Turn on him? What’s next? AWOLS from “Obama’s media army?”

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