All You Fascists Bound to Lose

Hagee, nowhere to be seen

Adam Doster

It's far from a perfect comparison, but the coverage Rev. Wright has received from the national media as compared to John McCain's active courting of Rev. John Hagee is pretty astonishing. Steve Clemons did the dirty work: Using Nexis and Google News, I went ahead and did another search this morning. How many of the nation’s largest daily newspapers ran stand-alone articles about McCain’s outreach to a bigoted and nutty televangelist? Here’s the list: Washington Post — Zero New York Times — Zero Los Angeles Times — Zero Boston Globe — Zero Chicago Tribune — Zero USA Today — Zero Wall Street Journal — Zero

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Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.
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