On McCain Campaign Trash, Media Says, "We have Insatiable Appetite"

In the Washington Post article “Misunderestimating McCain,” Dan Balz admits the media has been wise to the McCain campaign BS for a long time, yet they continue to print and promote their endless stream of sleaze anyway. Check out this open confession:

McCain's new team, led by Steve Schmidt, is fearless in the face of criticism that they are running on phony issues, false charges and negative ads that don't tell the truth. The chorus of criticism this week has been deafening, from Obama, from Democrats, from the media. But it has done nothing to turn Team McCain in a different direction. Their combination of audacity in attack and playing the victim in defense has been breathtaking. McCain's team is both unafraid and reckless, but they love the chaos they've touched off. There is nothing orderly about what they're doing, just a relentless barrage of statements, e-mails, conference calls, Internet ads, cable interviews and political chaff designed to batter Obama and feed the media's insatiable appetite for combat and conflict, the more outrageous the better. “The more outrageous the better?”

With “lipstick on a pig,” and other failures to trash the McCain campaign, the media has the power to stop the dissent with a refusal to print the stuff.

I won’t hold my breath.