Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, October 20, 2008 3:09:01 PM
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,”
runs Sully’s tagline, quoting Orwell. Consider Salter’s struggle won.
Doubtless this righteous salvo, too, will be assimilated into the
unified field theory of Trig Trutherism, probably as evidence that
Sully got too close to the truth in his scary smart insinuation about Palin buying off the hospital staff where Trig was delivered.
I’m not going to quote the money passage lest it discourage you from
reading the whole worthwhile interview. I’ll quote this instead:
JG: Looking back, do you think there was something false about your salad days with the press?
MS: No, I’m trying not to draw general lessons about the press or us
or the meaning of life out of all of this. Otherwise I’d despair. I
think the media is driven by a need to see this history happen. And I
think they’ve rationalized it, they think they’re on the level with
McCain, that he’s not the old McCain. But he is the old
McCain. He just doesn’t know what happened to the old press corps. They
rationalize a reason to go get him. Every Obama attack they carry.
Every McCain criticism of Obama they rush to blunt even before Obama
does.
Tom Bevan reminds us Salter’s not the first campaign aide to detect this dynamic.