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Reporter: Shut Up, Old Man

mccainbush.jpgGOP presidential nominee John McCain has a famously gross relationship with the press corps—they all fawn over him and he talks to them incessantly about everything and once he invited them to a barbecue at his house. The relationship is a bit of mixed bag for McCain of course, because it leads to situations like people reporting that he still, in his words, "hate[s] gooks." But the press generally doesn't spend weeks debating the meaning of McCain's friendship with nutcases like Rod Parsley. Maybe that'll change? NPR correspondent Scott Horsley is apparently sick of all this candidness: "They are an open book when it comes to their strategy, their tactics, their view of the race. It gets to the point where you just want them to shut up sometimes." [HuffPo]

2:14 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Pareene
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