“I hate to be the one to break up a love affair, but the John McCain the media and independent voters fell in love with in 2000 — the straight-shooting, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may maverick — is no more. He’s been replaced by a man willing to say or do anything to win the affection of his newfound object of desire, the radical Right … Yet many in the media can’t bring themselves to stop acting as if McCain is still the dashing rebel who made knees buckle back in the day.”
— Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (And What You Need to Know to End the Madness), by Arianna Huffington (Knopf; $24.95; available May 1)
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2008.
