A Third Option For The Media

Reader D:

Um, how about a third option, which perhaps could be called the "Gore
option," where news outlets start describing McCain himself as being "mean
and duplicitious" and no longer the wonderful Maverick that so many fell in
love with in '00?  Where the media starts talking about the character of the
candidate, not just his spinner?  (Not that I agreed with it in '00 when it
happened to Gore but...)

It's clear that many of his previous fans in the media (exhibit A: Joe
Klein) are turning on him because of his campaign.  Does his campaign kinda
sorta call into question the man himself and his whole "man of honor" when
it's turning into the Lee Atwater all-star show?