Political bits - The media doesn't love John McCain anymore.

Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair starts off the anti-McCain, bemoaning the lack of access to the candidate symbolized in the unused "straight talk couch" on the airplane.

The FoxNews campaign reporter notes that McCain is doing very little actual campaigning, usually just one event a day. Frustrated reporters are spending most of their time at the hotel's pools and bars.

The NYTimes has blasted the most recent McCain attacks as "racially tinged," and has a widely read board editorial, "The Low Road Express."

The WSJ prints an editorial about McCain's positional flip flops titled, "Is John McCain Stupid?," a day after it printed an editorial blasting him over tax policy. (Later: Add another WSJ "straight news" piece that blasts McCain over taxes.)

Politico notes this morning that for all the happy talk and promises, the McCain campaign is offering very few details of how their going to actually meet those promises.

The WaPo has a frontpager, "The curious mind of John McCain," which has some praise but also talks about the chaos that comes out of McCain's "emotional" mind.

And, there is so much more out there. Joe Klein, Eugene Robinson, Andrea Mitchell, Howard Kurtz.......

I guess it's not a surprise that lately McCain has been holding one weekly press availability and only giving interviews to local media.

There seems to be a pent up media feeling towards McCain, and his recent swerve to the negative has unleashed some of it. The challenge for the Obama campaign is to figure out how to unleash the torrent. How do they turn the campaign attention off of Obama's "celebrity" and back onto McCain?