Richard Cohen (Richard Cohen!): "The Ugly New McCain."
If you don't know from Richard Cohen, the confession comes midway through the piece:
I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain. Guilty.
But now? (And who could have imagined "The View" would be the tipping point?)
Freeze. Close in on McCain. This was the moment. He has largely been avoiding the press. The Straight Talk Express is now just a brand, an ad slogan like "Home Cooking" or "We Will Not Be Undersold." Until then, it was possible for McCain to say that he had not really known about the ads, that the formulation "I approve this message" was just boilerplate. But he didn't.
"Actually, they are not lies," he said.
Actually, they are.
McCain has turned ugly.
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And so McCain lied about his lying and maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can -- as he did in South Carolina -- renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won't work. Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.
Richard Cohen!
And, via Thers at Whiskey Fire, we see that the recently drying-off Joe Klein moves another step away from the tank himself: "Wingnuts at Play."
(Klein's previous step, if you missed it: "Apology Not Accepted.")
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