Free Ride: Inside The Media's Love Affair With McCain
Mar 25, 2008 -"The press loves McCain," MSNBC's Chris Matthews has declared. "We're his base." This tawdry media love affair with the presumptive GOP nominee is the focus of a new book by two experts in the field -- David Brock and Paul Waldman of the progressive media watchdog Media Matters.
In Free Ride: John McCain and the Media, Brock and Waldman "illuminate how the press falls for McCain's 'straight tak'…





