Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos are feverishly defending the questions they asked Obama and Clinton as perfectly legitimate. So BarbinMD has a few equally legitimate questions for the Corporate Media to ask McCain:

• Senator McCain, some have suggested that you take on Mike Huckabee as your running mate to offset the mistrust many Christian voters have of you given your support of stem cell research, which as you know, they consider to be murder.  So my question to you is, will you ask Mr. Huckabee to join your ticket and can you explain why destroying unborn children isn't murder?  After all, this viewpoint can be found on the internet.
• It has been widely reported that you told Senator John Cornyn to "fuck off."  Given your famous and self-admitted temper, should the American people be concerned that you may use the same sort of language to world leaders?
• Let's move on to religion.  You have "proudly" accepted the endorsements of Reverend John Hagee and Rod Parsley.  Do believe and accept their belief that the Catholic Church conspired with Hitler to exterminate Jews, that Hurricane Katrina was a righteous punishment from God for the sins of New Orleans, and that a part of our American destiny is to destroy the false religion of Islam?  If not, why haven't you publicly disassociated yourself from these remarks?
• Keeping on religion for another moment; 20 years ago you began attending a Baptist Church, yet you refused to be baptized into that church.  Why?
• Do you believe that commiting adultery should disqualify someone to be the President of the United States?  Why or why not?
• It's been noted that you don't wear an American flag on your lapel.  Do you believe that wearing one proves ones patriotism and conversely, does not wearing one mean that you don't love your country?  In other words, is this an issue that the American people should be concerned about?

Avenging Angel has 10 more questions:

1.  Do you agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy?

2.  Doesn't your legendary temper make you too dangerous to be trusted with the presidency of the United States?

3.  Doesn't your confusion regarding basic facts about the war in Iraq, including repeatedly citing a nonexistent Al Qaeda-Iran alliance, make you unfit for command?

4.  Given your past adultery, should Americans consider you a moral exemplar of family values?

5.  Doesn't your flip-flop on Jerry Falwell being an "agent of intolerance" show your opportunistic pandering to the religious right?

6.  Given your wealth and privileged upbringing, aren't you - and not Barack Obama - the elitist?

7.  What is your religion, really?  And has the answer in the past changed as the South Carolina primary approached?

8.  Didn't President Bush betray you with his signing statement on the Detainee Treatment Act?  You claim to be against torture, but aren't you a hypocrite for voting "no" on the Senate waterboaring ban?

9.  Why did you flip-flop on the Bush tax cuts you twice opposed? Why do you now support making them permanent for the wealthiest Americans who need them least?

10.  With the economy tanking, shouldn't Americans be concerned over your past statements that "the issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should?" 

John Aravosis adds these 9 questions:

1. Adultery. McCain reportedly was seeing his second wife while still married to his first wife. And, then we have the issue of the blond lobbyist who looks like McCain's second wife. America deserves answers.

2. Does John McCain require his mistresses to wear a flag pin?

3. McCain working for the enemy. If a US soldier made propaganda tapes for the enemy (like John McCain did), then went on to run for president as a Democrat, the Republicans would eviscerate that candidate. I want George Stephanopoulos to ask John McCain if he loves America as much as soldiers who didn't make propaganda tapes for the enemy while in captivity. Oh, and in case you think I'm kidding, here are McCain's own words:

Later, I made a second, feebler attempt at suicide. On the fourth day, I gave up. I signed a confession that "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pilot".

The guards ordered me to record my confession on tape. I refused, and was beaten until I consented.

Well, I'm sure a POW has never been beaten before, so it's totally understandable why McCain betrayed his country during his "hero" years in Vietnam. (Or are we to assume that all American POWs betray their country while in captivity, right?)

4. Old age. John McCain is old, everyone knows it. I love my parents, they're in their late 70s, they're great people, but they probably shouldn't be president at this age. John McCain would be the oldest new president EVER if he gets elected (and we all saw what happened to Reagan in his second term). I hope we'll be seeing some hard hitting questions about McCain being simply too old.

5. That enormous thing on the side of McCain's face. McCain had skin cancer a few years ago. He now has some enormous thing on the side of his face that no one is talking about. I want to know why we shouldn't be worried that John McCain is going to get sick and die in office.

6. Cindy McCain's drug addiction. What message does it send to America's children to have a drug addict, who actually stole drugs, as first lady?

7. Would John McCain quit a church that had his wife as pastor?

8. Is John McCain going to jail for 5 years? McCain has illegally pulled out of the public campaign finance system. That's a crime punishable by 5 years in prison. Is Stephanopoulos going to break media silence on this issue and ask John McCain whether he's too old to go prison?

9. Will McCain make propaganda tapes while he's in prison?

Cliff Schecter adds two more:

1. How can you call yourself a straight-talker in light of the fact that you have changed your positions or rhetorically flip-flopped on the following issues: Abortion, Creationism in science class, immigration, intervention abroad, tax cuts for the wealthy, civil unions, a Martin Luther King holiday, the Confederate Flag, the Christian Right, Bob Jones University, whether Rumsfeld did a good job, whether Dick Cheney is doing a good job, whether President Bush is an honest man, a Patient’s Bill of Rights, global warming, campaign finance reform in general, public financing of campaigns specifically, lobbying reform, whether the War in Iraq would be “easy,” whether Sunni and Shiite are working together, whether “Iraqi blood should be traded for American blood,” military readiness, how many troops are necessary for the suge to succeed in Iraq, ehtanol subsidies, the continuing existence of a minimum wage, closing the gun-show loophole, healthcare for children…and I could go on, but how about we start with those?

2. If Barack Obama must account for everyone he has ever passed within a 100 square mile radius of, then here are some associations you might want to explain, with the indicted, the white supremacists and the downright corrupt: Rick Renzi (indicted), Terry Nelson (racist ads against Harold Ford in 2006), Trent Lott (pining for a Strom presidency), The Wyly Brothers (corrupt), Bob Perry (Chief Swift Boater), Richard Quinn (white supremacist), Rev. Richard Land (homosexual hate), Ken Blackwell (Ohio election suppression), Charlie Black (lobbyist and according to John Gorenfeld’s new book, Bad Moon Rising, Reverend Moon lover). That would be a start.

Keith Olbermann has 8 more:

1. In your book you mention visiting burlesque houses, and you say that in Rio you indulged in, quote “the vices sailors are infamous for.”

Exactly how many times have you employed prostitutes? Or were you just referring to public drunkeness?

2. On your association with shady characters…

As a member of the Keating Five, you helped delay regulators from going after a savings and loan that ripped off elderly investors of their life savings… and cost taxpayers more than two billion dollars.

Why do you hate the elderly?

And taxpayers?

3. Your continuing association with radicals from the 1970’s. A man who tried to destroy the two-party electoral system and subvert Democracy, and to this day remains utterly unapologetic, saying only that he wishes he’d done more of it, and better? As recently as November 8th of 2007, you had a public conversation with G. Gordon Liddy, not merely a criminal, but an unrepentant enemy of the U-S constitution who is now in radio.

Why do you hate the Constitution, sir?

4. After first calling Jerry Falwell an “agent of intolerance,” you took that back and began praising the man, despite the fact that he blamed America for 9/11.

Why in six years have you not repudiated Mr. Falwell’s damning of this country? Why do you still symbolically share the same pew?

5. You proudly accepted the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee who wants the U-S to start a nuclear war as part of the Apocalypse; who called Catholicism “the great whore” and said Katrina was God’s punishment of New Orleans for holding, quote, “a homosexual parade.”

Senator McCain, does Pastor Hagee love Catholics, Muslims, New Orleans, gay people, parades and life on Earth as we know it, as much as you do?

6. Senator, why did you commit adultery?

Not that lobbyist stuff. I mean, with your wife back in the ’70s while you were still married to your first wife?

7. Last year, you admitted lying to voters when you said South Carolina’s confederate flag was strictly a state issue, when you knew it wasn’t, when you knew it was offensive to many Americans, presumably, those who wanted America to win the Civil War.

Why did you lie to protect a racist symbol of terrorists who wanted to destroy this country when you could have, um, not?

8. Finally, sir, a lot of Americans judge their politicians entirely by simple symbols. Flag lapel pins, where your hands are during the pledge of allegiance. Wouldn’t you agree, Senator McCain, that perhaps the most potent simple symbol of loving America, is whether or not you chose to be born in America?

What questions would you like ask McCain?

Update 1: Brave New Films created a satirical interview of McCain by Stephanopoulos asking some of the questions above.