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Press put favored 'maverick' McCain where he is

August 19, 2008 By PAUL WALDMAN Paul Waldman is a senior fellow at Media Matters Action Network, a media watchdog organization, and is co-author of the recent book "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media."

Observers of politics know they can count on at least one constant in presidential campaigns: Whenever the Republican candidate is down in the polls, he begins to complain about the media (Democrats do it sometimes too, but not nearly as often). But when that candidate is John McCain, one would be forgiven for believing the current race has descended into some parallel universe where everything...

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