[H/t: Hugh Hewitt]

Steve Schmidt, team McCain’s campaign manager really knows his stuff as showcased by the LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm:

One by one, two by two, then in quick streams, reporters Monday noon rushed down a curtained corridor on the print media floor at the Republican National Convention to swarm around one of the baldest men on the planet.

They couldn’t believe their eyes. Just an hour or so after the bombshell news was put out by John McCain’s campaign aboSteve Schmidt presidential campaign manager for Senator John McCainut the pregnancy of Gov. Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter, there was the actual campaign manager himself, Steve Schmidt, walking right by.

He was quickly swarmed by media representatives with tiny tape recorders doing what excites them most, chasing a breaking news story on a day they thought would be dull.

Patiently, by and large, he answered question after question, some of them several times, pausing to appear to think as he crafted his responses.

Finally, after nearly a half-hour of pushing and shoving and competing to get questions in, Schmidt said he had to go. And walked off with a squad of newly-appointed Palin aides who’d been standing by not smiling.

Go read it all to get the feel for what a master stroke of media wranglin’ this was. However, this article on Schmidt is a today’s online post, maybe it will make the dead-tree edition tomorrow? We’ll see. Looking at the today’s front page of the DTE, the LAT goes full bore to slam Sarah Palin for her daughter’s pregnancy and also after McCain, who the LAT blatantly lies about not knowing with the subhead, “McCain’s campaign is shaken up by the announcement that his running mate’s teen daughter is pregnant.”

Now, go back and reread today’s post on Schmidt. Does that sound like someone who is all shook up?

Didn’t think so . . .

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