McCain is now doing local TV shows to circumvent the national media

A little birdie tells us that John McCain is setting up all sorts of interviews on local TV interviews this weekend in order to circumvent having to talk to the national press. (McCain thinks all the media now hates him - which is funny, since a few months ago he called them his "base" ).

McCain must think that local TV shows are pretty dumb, and that they won't ask him about his running mate's ethical scandals, her lie during her convention speech that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (she actually supported it), her lie that she visited Ireland, her lie that the media uncovered the story of her unwed pregnant daughter when in fact it was John McCain who leaked the story to Reuters, her claim that living near Russia counts as national security expertise, the claim that Wasilla with population 7,000 is just like running New York City, her latest ruse pulling the "sexism" card because she simply isn't qualified to answer serious questions on serious issues.

John McCain is counting on local TV being dumb so he doesn't have to face the hard questions about his mental state in choosing someone as unfit as Sarah Palin to lead our nation during wartime. Also, since McCain has been looking pretty bad lately, and avoiding major press conferences, doing a TV interview on local TV means only having to spend, what, a minute at a time talking to a reporter. Even if McCain is ill, or has no more energy left, he can eek out a minute-long TV interview and convince people that he's still a vital 60-something. But he's not. He's 72 and has had 4 bouts of cancer. And he's looking very bad lately. That's why we're so worried about Sarah Palin. Dan Quayle was an idiot, but at least Bush (the father) was young and healthy. John McCain is neither.