An excerpt from "Free Ride: The Media and John McCain" by David Brock and Paul Waldman

McCain's 'Maverick' Myth Is the Media's Creation

Another case of media myth-direction about the true nature of a candidate?

This is not vengeance. This is pun-ishment.

"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe