McCain medical records disclosure put off again; now slated for next Friday

May 15, once the McCain campaign’s self-imposed deadline for the release of John McCain’s medical records, came and went yesterday without any fanfare. According to a NYT editorial earlier this month, the scheduled date is now May 23.

As I wrote here previously, the event that’s being planned looks to be more a dog-and-pony show than a records release. Reporters will get a chance to speak with three of McCain’s doctors, and a select group of journos will get 90 minutes to peruse the medical file, but it appears that no one will get to examine McCain’s voluminous medical file (1,500 pages the last time he gave the press a peek, in 1999) in any detail.

The whole question of McCain’s health and of the repeated delays in his records release has gotten a little attention this week (Time, US News & World Report), but it remains a faint blip on the news cycle.