I have.

So has Barack Obama.

Readers! Get out your hazmat suits!

So I got home late tonight and watched the debate, which I’d TiVoed, and started checking commentary on the debate, and then I checked up on the McCain vs. the NYT story.

And then I read on Contentions that it’s already over. Jennifer Rubin writes:

And a final thought on the New York Times story today: Who says McCain’s coziness with the media didn’t pay off? Aside from the fact he literally is raising money on the Times, the vast majority of the mainstream media, not to mention both liberal and conservative bloggers, took his side or at least were highly critical of the Times. Isn’t that the opposite of what the talk show hosts are saying (i.e. it never pays to cultivate the media)? I doubt any other Republican would have been as effective or adept at beating back a potentially very damaging story in less than 24 hours. (The news cycle pace still stuns me.) One of the other GOP contenders — you know, the mayor — certainly was not.

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Whoa.