Why John McCain will only release his medical records "to a tightly controlled group of reporters on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend"?

It does make you wonder. McCain has to release his medical records. The timing is telling.

John McCain has learned much from his mentor, George Bush. Release bad or ugly news on the Friday before a holiday weekend:

Senator John McCain is set to release 400 pages of medical records, including documents related to his melanoma surgery in August 2000, to a tightly controlled group of reporters on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.

Mr. McCain said late last week that he had nothing to hide. Campaign officials have nonetheless said that even if nothing in the records suggests a problem with his health, a rush of news media reports focusing on the cancer surgery was not politically helpful and that they wanted to play down the information as much as possible — something that the timing of the release would seem to accomplish.

Like Bush, McCain thinks the traditional media types won't report on anything that interferes with their long weekends. It worked for Bush time and time again. This time, the press has been given a heads up, and it'll probably still work.