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John McCain doesn\’t know that contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV. Apparently what he does know is that he\’s \”sure [he\’s] taken a position on it in the past\”, and just needs to have one of his staffers let him know what that was. He also knows that he\’s against spending public money on it, even though it\’d probably amount to about the cost of a minute and a half of the Iraq war, which he\’s fine with extending another hundred years. But hey, that\’s politics these days. What I find most telling is the final paragraph. The media, ever ready to get to the bottom of things (so to speak), interrupted their own brief moment of journalism to change the subject and talk about a pig that Senator McCain saw at the Iowa State Fair last year. Let that sink in for a minute. (Sure they were actually in Iowa during this discussion, but still.) They go from serious, if somewhat baffling, subject… to a pig. If you\’ve got the stomach for it, Salon\’s Glenn Greenwald frequently offers up critiques on the media (amidst other usually interesting political subjects). I\’ll link just one example – if you\’re interested, check it out.
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