Bryan D. Brown

So if you managed to dodge the big story about Rosie O’Donnell leaving The View, a story that should be filed under Who Gives a F*&@?), you might have heard that John McCain has officially announced that he is running for President of the United States of America - and thus, increasing by one, the list of candidates for whom I will not vote in 2008. Sorry John, you lost me a Bomb Iran. Actually you lost me before that, but I was being cute.

Of course, things really don’t bode well for you when, on the day before you officially announce your candidacy, you get slapped around by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

I really want to like McCain. He’s an ally in the low power FM battles, and the McCain-Feingold Act was, if nothing else, I step in the right direction. Then, however, he plows right into continued support for a war that has never made any sense.

After watching McCain’s appearance on The Daily Show, I made it a point to catch Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War last night - a report about the media’s complicity in the Bush administration’s push to invade Iraq. I highly recommend it.