{"id":312206,"date":"2010-02-12T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76534"},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:44:54","slug":"mccain-i-don%e2%80%99t-pay-attention-to-dana-milbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312206","title":{"rendered":"McCain: I Don\u2019t Pay Attention to Dana Milbank"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times — who begins the segment by saying “John McCain has faded somewhat from global prominence” — gets into Dana Milbank’s surprising column<\/a> that whacked the Arizona senator for voting uniformly against President Obama’s agenda. This exchange begins at 5:44 in the video.<\/p>\n

\n

LUCE: Dana Milbank, the columnist for The Washington Post, wrote a column last week and it began, “I miss John McCain,” and he said you\u2019re not the straight talk express that you used to be, you\u2019re not the independent-minded Republican you used to be and that, he alleged, that it was because of these reasons that you face a teabag kind of primary challenge. Are you saying there\u2019s absolutely no truth in that, that sort of description?<\/span><\/p>\n

MCCAIN: Of course not. And I pay a lot of attention to a lot of commentators, but that\u2019s not one of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Do you miss Dana Milbank?” Luce asks. McCain snorts, derisively.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Arthur Delaney of the Huffington Post jogged my memory of this McCain moment<\/a> from the health care reform debate last year.<\/p>\n

\n

If the Senator will yield, on that map, I wonder should there not be a sticker for the State of Florida? <\/span>According to a published report by one of my favorite columnists, Dana Milbank<\/strong>, of the Washington Post: “Gator Aid: Senator Bill Nelson inserted a grandfather clause that would allow Floridians to preserve their pricey Medicare Advantage program.”<\/p>\n

So maybe we should have one of those stickers for Florida there.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That was on December 22, 2009. In 52 days, Milbank went from one of McCain’s “favorite columnists” to a commentator he doesn’t pay “a lot of attention” to.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times — who begins the segment by saying “John McCain has faded somewhat from global prominence” — gets into Dana Milbank’s surprising column that whacked the Arizona senator for voting uniformly against President Obama’s agenda. This exchange begins at 5:44 in the video. LUCE: Dana Milbank, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}