straight talk
So David Brooks wrote an annoying little column today about this: “McCain started out with the same sort of kibitzing campaign style that he used to woo the press back in 2000. It didn’t work. This time there were too many cameras around and too many 25-year-old reporters and producers seizing on every odd comment [...]
As everybody in America knows, John McCain loves holding town hall events where he doesn’t have to read out loud to an audience, and nobody can see that he is six inches shorter than the podium. In these town halls he offers “straight talk you can believe in,” like “I am a nasty old bastard [...]
