Journos Wonder If They're Still McCain's Base

Jeff Bercovici over at Portfolio asks if Presidential Nominee John McCain still plans on have biweekly press conferences and use the ‘Kennedy model’ like he told a group of reporters American Magazine Conference in Fajardo, Puerto Rico in 2005:

“You’re going to answer the question sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner,” he [McCain] said, even if it meant enduring “some pretty good scrubbings from the media.”

Of course, all that was long before the Arizona senator chose to make media-bashing a primary plank in his 2008 platform.

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