John McCain is not happy with the way the media is going on about Barack Obama’s overseas trip, while his domestic goings-on are covered as mere blips on the news cycle radar.

With all three evening news anchors in attendance, as well as the upper echelon of the press corps, Obama’s trip is being chronicled endlessly in newspapers and on television, with pictures coming back to the U.S. of Obama meeting with senior military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. McCain, meanwhile, is shown palling around in a golf cart with George H.W. Bush.

The difference in treatment has “irked” the McCain camp. While McCain used to refer to the media as his “base,” he’s now sees a climate where the press is bending over backward for his opponent and leaving him in the proverbial dust. So what’s a guy to do?

Complain.

Except, as we’ve seen before, that isn’t the best strategy.

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