On last night's Fox News Watch, panelist and conservative columnist Jim Pinkerton mentioned that, when it came to analyzing the reasons for the collapse of John McCain's candidacy, Media Research Center [MRC] got it right: it was the Arizona senator's avid support for the amnesty-based immigration plan, and not his backing of the Bush Iraq policy, that did him in with GOP primary voters.
FOX NEWS WATCH PANELIST JIM PINKERTON: The mainstream media said "[McCain's] toast because of the Iraq war. In fact, he's toast because of the immigration bill, and it was only the MRC that caught that, saying the real thing that hurt him with the Republican base, the people in the primaries, was immigration and not Iraq.
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MRC [NewsBusters' parent organization] had made the point in its CyberAlert of July 11, Nets Blame Stance on Iraq, Not Immigration, for McCain's Setbacks.
This NewsBuster has written along similar lines on a number of occasions, including this item from Wednesday, 'Today' Blames McCain Implosion on War Support; Rollins Tells It Like It Is, where I observed:
If I hear one more MSM outlet ascribe the implosion of John McCain's candidacy to his support for the war in Iraq, I'm going to scream.
Also see this earlier item.
MRC/NB: bringing our readers spot-on analysis they won't get at the MSM. Kudos to Pinkerton for pointing it out.
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