McCain is out of his element with the financial crisis. The more he talks the lower his numbers go.

Sometimes, leaders should just listen. What makes some great leaders is knowing when to talk and also knowing when to shut up.

Whoa. Both "uncritcally" and "without noting contradiction." McClatchy gets a double dose of MMFA opprobrium!

Let's see, while it's true that if democrats voted in lockstep they could have passed this bill without the help of republicans, the point to a bill being bipartisan is that both sides are involved. The republicans (apparantly with a little help from Gingrich) chose to vote against this and then cried like little babies about mean ol nancy pelosi hurt their feelings. Barney Frank called it when he said

Frank: “We don’t believe they had the votes and I think they are covering up the embarrassment of not having the votes. But think about this: somebody hurt my feelings so I will punish the country. I mean that’s hardly plausible. And there were twelve Republicans who were ready to stand up for the economic interest of America but not if anybody insulted them. I’ll make an offer: Give me those twelve people’s names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they’ll now think about the country.”

guys: I usually agree with the media bias, but here, they work in some criticism of McCain all through the article. McClatchy was one of the few news orgs that questioned the Saddam-WMD connection, so I wouldn't say they're biased in any way. Maybe they should have noted the contradiction, but I think they thought the quote would be obviously ridiculous. Not a good edit, but they definitely aren't Fox News, either.

"so I wouldn't say they're biased in any way. "

Apparently you haven't grasped yet that even an unbiased source can make misleading and even biased statements.  MMFA exists to find and document those misleading statements, regardless of WHO makes them.  No one is, or should be exempt.

And here's the actual title of the article, not the KC Star's: Now here's bipartisanship: McCain blames the Democrats not exactly bias for McCain, isn't it?

last I heard, Obama is a senator and the vote happened in the House. Senators don't vote in the House of Representatives.

He meant its not the time to fix the blame to Republicans.

McCain is pathetic. 

In the next edition of Webster's Dictionary the entry for "blithering idiot" says, John McCain.  Under John McCain, "see-'blithering idiot'".  The plural, "blithering idiots"- "see-followers of John McCain".  "Lie: the opposite of truth".  "ex. John McCain".  "Fool: see-McCain, John."