When are we going to see all the academic studies that show that the majority of Obama's coverage is either negative or just flat wrong. There sure were a lot of them coming out during the primary that suggested that Hillary was getting more negative press.

Granted, I don't think that these studies are useful, except for the fact that they do inspire a little bit of self-reflection by the MSM.

GOP got rid of the fairness doctrine for the media and now they are complaining? Ask McCain if he is now supporting what Reagan took away or if he just wants to whine about it.

Four points:

1. I woke up this morning to hear Chuck Todd compare Obama to Bush while Joe Scarborough went through his daily questioning of Barack Obama's patriotism.

2. Obama was engaged in a very competitive primary battle for three more than three months after John McCain sowed up the GOP nod, and naturally the primaries received tons of coverage.

3. Given that large numbers of the American public are still confused about basic aspects of Barack Obama, including his religion and even his citizenship, it's clear the media hasn't done a very good job of educating the public about Barack Obama.

4.SHould the media give more coverage to John McCain, perhaps they might consider reporting stories like his constant gaffes and misstatements on foreign policy or how his primary national security adviser was a primary enabler of Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi snake oil salesman who sold the Bushies bogus intelligence and swindled American taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The McCain camp better just pray the media doesn't start giving them equal attention. If the press starts doing thier job Team McCain is going to crash and burn like a poorly piloted A 4 Skyhawk.

Hillary played this card well in the primary. Attack an overwhelmingly favorable media for being out to get you and watch them become even more favorable. It's dishonest but It's also smart politics.

Of course, we all know how the primary turned out.

Nation of whiners

Did anyone read that article in NY Magazine ("McCain's Hillary problem") where they quoted a McCain staffer saying "Hillary received the worst coverage since Nixon, and now it's happening to us." !!!
Yeah, Chuck Todd sure is sucking lately. First it was "That's why people love McCain" re: his Iran joke. Today he was saying that Obama and Bush have the same personality and loyalty issues...ok, isn't MSNBC trying to say all of the time that Obama does NOT value loyalty, like he "throws people under the bus" all of the time? When McCain tried to distance himself from Gramm, Todd said "What do you think about McCain tossing Gramm under the bus, Obama style?" There is a difference between valuing loyalty in your campaign, and valuing loyalty in your campaign over competence. Make up your damn minds, fools. Yeah, even Dee Dee Myers agreed with Joe Scarborough that Obama gets more favorable coverage in the general election over McCain(at first I thought she was just agreeing MORE coverage, but Joe asked a second question about favorable coverage to be sure. Disappointing).

Obama is getting more coverage. That is not in question, but as you say it's the quality that matters not the quantity.

Obama has been unfairly scrutinized on several fronts. Who can forget the media brouhaha that ensued when Obama had the audacity to use the word "refine" in the context of his Iraq withdrawal plans. Now, I didn't exactly ace the English portion of the S.A.T., but I don't recall "refine" being a synonym for "reverse", or "change", or "alter". In fact, the dictionary makes this characterization of the word refine:

"to improve by inserting finer distinctions, superior elements, etc."

In other words, Obama wants to flesh out his withdrawal plans.

Other examples abound, and I don't want to list them here. Suffice to say, Obama has gotten lots more negative coverage than McCain.

For example, how do you think it would have played out if Obama's senior policy adviser who crafted your economic policy referred to the American people as "whiners" or characterized our current economic woes as purely psychological?

McCain said that Gramm doesn't "speak for him". And the media said that was good enough for them. Oh, and what time is the bar-b-que this weekend John?

On a daily basis I read news articles on both McCain and Obama, and I'm very comfortable is saying that the level of skepticism directed towards Obama is greater than that directed at McCain.

Finally, the republican's should quit their whining. Obama is making history as the first African American candidate in our nation's history. This very fact is going to ensure that Obama receives greater coverage. If the republicans would stop running old white men, they too could gain all the free publicity. But clearly it's a double edged sword.

It always seems to be the ones that complain about it that are actually getting the free ride. The media pretty much gave Hillary a free pass during the primary, and went out of their way to trash Obama after the SNL skit, and they are still kind of in that mindset now, just waiting for another non-issue to hype up to smear Obama with.

But with McCain, the media is head over heels in love with him, and they don't even try to hide it. For him to say that the media loves Obama is ridiculous, but hey, great cover. He can use the same meme that Hillary put out to get the media to smear Obama, and use it to keep them attacking Obama, while ignoring him, less they get another scary SNL skit making fun of them!

And down is up and left is right and right is wrong and the sun sets in the east.

Let's see....go see Johnny Boy make mistakes that you really don't want to comment on because he's old and all those people do is whine or go see the excitement and realness of an Obama event.....Once again those rocket scientist answer their own question by whining.

There is more coverage of Obama and more scrutiny - including endless, endless analysis of fist jabs. How about John gets more coverage, more scrutiny, including some BS coverage to make it fair - endless coverage of Cindy McCain stealing drugs from her non-profit would be good.

Mccain, it is all psychological, mental. You and your staff have become WHINERS!! The media has a love hate relationship with Obama. One minute they seem to love 'em (FAUX NEWS the esception) and the next they turn on you.

The media tends to give you a past.