John McCain Straight-Talks Maureen Dowd Right Off the Press Plane

It’s not like we don’t have our own numerous issues with Maureen Dowd, but kicking her off the press plane? That’s just not okay. But, via Politico, it looks like that’s exactly what former straight-talker, press-lover, current campaign-suspender John McCain recently did.

Apparently it all started back on Aug 30 (two days after the Palin announcement was made) when, after covering a McCain-Palin rally, MoDo (whose go-go boots column didn’t run until the next day) was banned(!) from the press plane.

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