Mon Dieu! Pity the reporters left behind to cover McCain
Making light of the gobs of attention showered by the news media on Barack Obama as he has traveled through the Middle East and Europe, John McCain's campaign had some fun Tuesday.
After a late-night arrival in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the campaign distributed phony press credentials to the media. One side bears the Statue of Liberty with the words: “McCain press corps. JV squad. Left behind to report in America.”
On the other side a squinting young man in a black-and-white-striped shirt and pink scarf (with a black beret and heavy mustache) pours wine into a glass before a shadowy image of the Eiffel Tower, with roughly the same message in (bad) French: “Le group de presse de McCain. L’equipe junior. Laisse en arriere pour faire un rapport en Amerique.”
-- Maeve Reston
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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I don't care which candidate you vote for please just think of our troops over in Iraq.
Posted by: ex001 | July 23, 2008 at 12:09 AM
TYPO!
"One side bears the Statute of Liberty"
Statue. Thanks. I do think we need more statutes of liberty, though.
Posted by: Jeff | July 23, 2008 at 12:44 AM