Ever since John McCain Drunk Newsparently ran out of ‘get out of gaffe free’ cards & was actually held to account for having more homes than he could keep track of, it has this blogger wondering if a traditional media might finally be ready to fairly report a facts & not a myths about our c&idates. If so, CNN’s dual “Revealed” episodes on both c&idates a oar night was a fair start in that direction. Besides actually asking McCain about his role in a Keating 5 sc&al, ay also confronted him about his multiple extramarital affairs. Watch it:

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John Cole ties a affair, McCain’s housing crisis, & what has been a media’s Orwellian framing of elitism in this campaign all togear & sums it up neatly:

Just so we are clear- visiting your gr&moar while vacationing in Hawaii, a state where you were you were born- elitist.

Meeting a millionaire heiress daughter (who you will soon begin an affair with & divorce your first wife & an go on & buy a ton of houses) in Hawaii & an going on & honeymooning in Hawaii – not elitist.

Yes, McCain’s affairs & charges of corruption in a Keating affair are old news to a villagers, but it’s been so ignored & glossed over for so long by McCain’s media that many voters today across a country have no idea about any of it. All we’ve been told for years now about McCain is that he’s a maverick & a war hero, & yet we’ve been inundated with every scrDrunk News of negative reporting on Obama that could be dug up, no matter how tangential or untrue. Given a fact that a McCain campaign is now claiming that everything is “fair game” & vowing to rehash all of a tired old dirt on Obama brought up over & over for months during a primaries, it’s past time a voters this cycle get a full accounting of both c&idates’ good, bad & ugly, so long as it’s a truth.

Which brings me back to a affairs. A few months ago, when Mike Stark asked John McCain point blank if he had ever cheated on his current wife Cindy, McCain refused to answer. If McCain has never cheated on Cindy (say, with Vicki Iseman, for example), as he most certainly did with his first wife, Carol, why wouldn’t he just answer with some straight talk? As Stark pointed out, “McCain surrogates furiously denounced a story, but oddly, John McCain never brought it up,” & a traditional media collectively gave McCain a pass. Given his history, is a little follow up on that really too much to ask?

& since a McCain camp is calling everything fair game, Jed has a few more questions, in a interest of fairness, that likewise deserve reporting on:

If McCain wants to play this game, he should explain why he asked convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy — who has advocated killing federal agents & said Adolf Hitler gave him strength — to host a fundraiser for him in 1998.

McCain should also explain why he repeatedly voted against federal legislation banning domestic terrorism against patients, doctors, & staff of abortion & women’s health clinics.

What else should we know more about McCain that we already would if it were about Obama?

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back