The author accuses the media of blindly accepting McCain's talking points. Maybe. Maybe they just disagree with the author? The basic idea, "let's see if we believe McCain is good in town hall gatherings", was good.

This article does a good job in pointing out McCains weakeness as a public speaker. The fact that he is best in town hall meetings, does not mean that he is good at it. He is just really bad at large venue speeches where he can barely keep the audiences attention. Next to Barack, he will always seem dull. I also agree the media could use a little more discernment rather than just serving as messengers at times. They could have quoted him instead. It was nice getting a chuckle going down the gaffe memory lane...

we need more articles like this to point out who the real McCain is and how the media ignore his more egregious staements