How Does This Differ From 2004? (Or 2000, Or...)

Ed Driscoll | 10:59 AM on September 22, 2008

The McCain camp calls out — by name — another reporter (this one from TIME) and goes to far as to quote her snide response when provided with information which contradicts her storyline. Ouch. And the Post’s media critic isn’t any better-neatly ignoring that the basis of the McCain ad in question was the Post.

And then, yowser, the McCain camp dares the Post to call itself “not credible.” I don’t know about the campaign against Barack Obama but I could watch this duel for awhile.

Well, here comes Round Two, featuring Smokin’ Steve Schmidt, teeing off on the New York Times:

He’s right of course (though as Allahpundit notes, “By what Orwellian definition of the term is the guy who co-wrote the McCain-Feingold bill a ‘First Amendment absolutist’?”), but for anybody who paid attention to either of these stories from 2004, it’s not exactly news, is it?

As yet, as another chapter in the ultimate love affair gone sour unfurls, it will be interesting to watch how the press reports the attacks on its credibility (or lack thereof) from a politician it once feted.

Related: “Hi. I’m NBC and I approved this ad.”