Stuck on stupid

John McCain is simply the best of a bad lot of politicians now running for the White House. I’ll take him over the other two anytime. But I’m with the critics who call stupid his previous remarks about vaccines allegedly causing autism, and, lately, his pandering to the MSM on the federal "shield law" they’ve wanted for so long. I used to think the law was a bad idea because it was better to rely on judicial interpretation of the First Amendment than some law that could just be rewritten or overturned altogether. Now, with the rise of new media to challenge the old, I agree with Instapundit (a constitutional law professor) that it will be problematic to pass such a law. It will have to apply to everyone who reports news, including bloggers, not just the employees of the MSM, howsoever a lawmaker could figure out how to define them alone. But I also have come to think that empowering reporters to hide the news, i.e. which CIA agent helped them violate national security, is just plain wrong. Not to mention stupid.