It is no news to the American people that politics is news.
Elections are even bigger news.
In election season that is really all we hear about. Nightly news coverage is inundated with coverage of even the primary elections. And when the reporters got hold of a possible contender to George W. Bush, they took off running. Through what they print and what they put on the air, the news creates this picture of our candidates, the picture that we come to know and love. There was defiantly a picture of John McCain presented to the public, the hero, the outsider, and truly, there was very little that George W. Bush could do about it, being as he has no control over the media.