In Free Ride: John McCain and the Media, David Brock and Paul Waldman portray the national press as so smitten with the McCain mythos—the straight-talking, post-partisan, incorruptible outsider—that they gloss over or ignore completely the darker realities of the man. The book does not critique McCain’s politics, but rather looks at how and why the media grants him and him alone this exemption.

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