Media Love Affair with McCain Continues

He's a United States Senator running for president. He has a house paid for by his wife's money. He's a Vietnam Vet now worth millions of dollars. He was against the Bush Tax cuts.

He's John McCain.

Surprised? Well, why wouldn't you be when the media refuses to treat the Republican running for the presidency with the same microscope the use on the Democratic candidates.

Here's what Jamison Foser at Media Matters for America has to say:

In 2001, John McCain voted against President Bush's tax cuts, noting that they were skewed toward the wealthy. In a Senate floor statement, McCain explained that he could not "in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."

But now, John McCain supports making the Bush tax cuts permanent rather than allowing them to expire, as they are scheduled to do under current law. Now, John McCain runs around saying things like, "The Democrats have already ... told us they will increase our taxes."

Who do you think McCain means when he says "our"?

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both made clear that they would roll back the Bush tax cuts only for the super-wealthy; Obama has said only "the top 1 percent" would be affected, and Clinton has said she would roll back the tax cuts only for "people making more than $250,000 a year."

So, for the overwhelming majority of Americans -- those making less than about $250,000 per year -- Clinton and Obama would not roll back the Bush tax cuts.

Indeed, McCain himself has previously acknowledged that the Bush tax cuts unfairly benefited the wealthy. So, when he says the Democrats would "increase our taxes," maybe that's who he is referring to. Indeed, Money magazine estimates John McCain's net worth at $40 million.

If you are not afraid of being totally disgusted, read Foser's entire piece, Media ignore McCain's finances after obsessing over Dems'