The wife of the Los Angeles Times' top political reporter, Ron Brownstein, is leaving CNN to become Sen. John McCain's communications director - but the Times says that won't be a conflict of interest. While the specter of Eileen McMenamin - aka Mrs. Brownstein - climbing aboard the Straight Talk Express might raise eyebrows in some quarters, the Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus tells the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz not to worry. "We think Ron is the best political writer in the country and don't think it'd serve the nation or our readers to take him off politics," he...