Recipe for Disaster

You might be too engrossed by the Washington Post story, teased on the front page, about the recipes passed off as Cindy McCain's own but plagiarized word-for-word from Foodnetwork.com (they blamed an intern; "Personally, I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain 'family' recipes," said the HuffingtonPost writer who discoverd the perfidy; "Did the intern lose Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes?") to have noticed the story in the same paper, nowhere mentioned on the front page, on McCain's economic plan. But dig: both ultimately suggest the same thing—that the mainstream media may be souring on their protective love affair with the presumptive Republican nominee. The piece is headlined—youch!—McCain's Plan for Working Class Offers Plenty for Corporate World.

I think there must be a headline writer somewhere at the Post who's going to be banned from the coffee-and-donuts table for a month.

Anyhoo. It's not just the headline that stings:

In a speech billed as the most comprehensive summary of McCain's economic vision to date, the candidate proposed to eliminate the alternative minimum tax, slash corporate income tax rates and offer a grab bag of other business breaks.

From the speech, the Post quoted this:

"In my administration, there will be no more subsidies for special pleaders, no more corporate welfare."

And then explained that

much of what he detailed was a corporate special pleader's dream: a cut in the corporate income tax rate, from 35 percent to 25 percent, a proposal to allow businesses to write off the cost of new equipment and technology from their taxes, a ban on Internet and new cellphone taxes, and a permanent tax credit for research and development.

Duh-yam! For once, the dreaded MSM can't outdo our own Bob Borosage in snarkin' at conservative plutocrats.

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