Shocked?

The Media like having darlings... for a long time they thought they had one in John McCain.

Changing Lanes
by Elizabeth Kolbert

The past few weeks have seen a change in McCain. He has hired new advisers, and with them he seems to have worked out a new approach. He is no longer telling the sorts of hard truths that people would prefer not to confront, or even half-truths that they might find vaguely discomfiting. Instead, he’s opted out of truth altogether. “Well, that certainly didn’t take long,” the Times observed.

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Jim Nichols
A Speculative Fiction
www.JimNichols4.com