The dude lost and he's got this veneer of being nice about it, but he slams the president almost every week. He's also got a huge platform to do that because, despite losing the election by the biggest margin in quite some time, the media has invited him to the Sunday news circuit week after week after week since November 2008. That's not something that we've seen with the losers of the past few elections. Yeah, they make appearances, especially when a relevant issue comes up, but they didn't go on anywhere near that frequently.
To prove I'm only slightly exaggerating about his Sunday media appearance frequency, I now have actual stats from The Washington Monthly, via kos:
For those keeping score, this will be McCain's 20th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show since Obama's inauguration. That's an average of 1.5 appearances a month, every month, for over a year -- more than any other public official in the country.Get this angry old man off the airwaves. Nobody gives a damn about his opinions anymore... he blew it with Democrats and independents over the course of the 2008 campaign, and he's always been too erratic and "mavericky" for Republicans, especially in Arizona. He could well be pink-slipped at the ballot box by the August primary, and he has very little influence within his Senate caucus these days, if he ever had any. There's no reason for the beltway media to keep having him on every few Sundays, except perhaps to keep swinging on that tire swing:
Since the president's took office, McCain has been on ABC's "This Week" three times (9.27.09, 8.23.09, and 5.10.09), "Fox News Sunday" four times (12.20.09, 7.2.09, 3.8.09, and 1.25.09), CNN's "State of the Union" four times (1.10.10, 10.11.09, 8.2.09, and 2.15.09), and CBS's "Face the Nation" five times (1.24.10, 10.25.09, 8.30.09, 4.26.09, and 2.8.09). His appearance on "Meet the Press" this weekend will be his fourth since Obama's inauguration (2.28.10, 12.6.09, 7.12.09, and 3.29.09).
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