Rick Davis works the refs.
They just can't handle it if the media treats McCain with anything less than fawning devotion.
McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race."
Davis made the request Sunday in a letter that is part of an aggressive effort by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to counter news coverage he considers critical.
Politico has asked NBC for a response and will post that here when it arrives.
In this case, the campaign is objecting to a statement by NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" questioning whether McCain might have gotten a heads-up on some of the questions that were asked of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who was the first candidate to be interviewed Saturday night by Pastor Rick Warren at a presidential forum on faith.
Davis is gambling that his whining will give the McCain campaign the same results as Hillary Clinton got during the primary - her charges of the media going too lightly generated a lot of critical coverage of Obama.
But this could cut the other way - the fact that Davis demanded a meeting with NBC makes it a story about the media - and part of the core context of the story is the possibility that McCain cheated.
I expect to see McCain ads in the near future calling out the media.