I'm not sure if this blogpost [1] from the Primebuzz was an earnest attempt at reportage or a brilliant effort at satire, but however it was intended I certainly hope we see more of it.  Either way, the post perfectly encapsulates the prevailing media attitude toward John McCain's candidacy.  

It would be hard to come up with a put-on more convincingly intended to skewer maintream coverage of McCain than a post entitled "McCain's rally impressed me" which lauds the septuagenarian Senator's Kansas City campaign event because no violent factional melees broke out in the audience:

 ...rallies in my own country are often attended by far more people than what I saw at the Union Station. There is also no vetting of those who attend the meetings, a practice that, sometimes, allows criminals to enter the rally venues with crude weapons.  In some cases, supporters clash at such rallies.

Precisely the sort of bar-lowering that the media consistently do for McCain.  "No crude weapons at his rally. McCain is impressive!"  We're supposed to marvel at McCain's event, I assume, because it didn't turn into a Birmingham v. Leeds United festival of hooliganism.  Color me unimpressed.

I suppose it's possible that the fellow who wrote this post, Samuel Siringi, is the genuine article --a wide-eyed outsider viewing the Presidential campaign carnival without any experience or context.  I can't help but believe, however, that this is some sort of clever Borat Sagdiyev [2] 2.0 stunt aimed squarely at the fawning fluffery that animates much coverage of McCain.

More from Mr. Siringi, please.­