Straight Talk Express Has Special Comfy Chairs for Well-Behaved Reporters

The Washington Post reports that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is now traveling in a new “Straight Talk Express� campaign airplane. It “features a special area� with “a couch and two captain’s chairs� where “McCain will conduct group interviews with the press.� But not all reporters covering McCain can enjoy this new lap of luxury. Top McCain aide Mark Salter said “‘only the good reporters’ would get to sit in the specially-configured section for interviews. ‘You’ll have to earn it,’he said.� So how can these reporters “earn� a seat? Never challenge the Senator, as McCain biographer Matt Welch explained in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times:

[McCain is] very open to people. You can come on the bus, everything is great but if he knows or if his team knows that you have a hostile line of questioning or you have a long and well documented critique, they’re not going to talk to you. […]

As a human, he’s haunted by the notion of honesty and about honor and truth. He wishes that he could speak the truth all the time. He doesn’t. I don’t think he speaks the truth any more than any other politician really, no more, no less.