Among other journalistic crimes in his softball interview on This Week, John McCain was allowed by George Stephanopoulos to waffle unchallenged on the question of tax cuts. McCain now fully embraces the cuts that he once said "offended his conscience."
But the question of how much McCain has personally benefited from those tax cuts gets more pointed as Cindy McCain refused this week to release her tax returns. CNN in the video above had no problem creating a graph of the personal wealth of candidates that left out Cindy McCain's assets, but included those of Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton. Just a wee bit misleading.
Back in 2004, this was Matthew Connetti in The Weekly Standard railing for transparency and the release of Teresa Heinz-Kerry's tax returns:
One Republican lawyer says Heinz's returns would be a "treasure trove of opposition research." One thing the returns would show, this lawyer says, is the extent to which Kerry is a "kept man."