The Media loves McCain more than Obama?

Gasp. Yes, indeed, you know you are reading the Washington Post. The Post's latest hit-job on McCain basically copies the Politico article I wrote about (here) with the added madness of the ludicrous suggestion that, if Obama had committed the gaffes that McCain had, he'd be out of the race already:

But there is a counter-narrative, which has taken root on the left, that McCain is the one being treated with journalistic kid gloves. In this view, Obama's every utterance is scrutinized, while McCain, who enjoyed warm relations with reporters during his 2000 White House campaign, pays little price for blunders.

Dan Abrams, the host of MSNBC's "Verdict," told viewers Monday that "gaffe after gaffe after gaffe come from John McCain, and they are forgotten. . . . There is no way Barack Obama would be able to get away with something like this."

I'm almost lost for wards. What absolutely cracks me up is that the MSM have become so obsessed with a candidate that they're actually no longer ignoring someone's mistakes but rather they're just no longer seeing them. The Post and MSNBC have literally become delusional over Obama. There is no more gaffe-prone candidate than Barack Obama (despite having the most tightly guarded message in the biz) and yet they think that the media is cutting McCain too much slack, and that obviously it really is because he's getting too old. You've got to be kidding me.

I hope this kind of thing backfires on the press and gives McCain the sympathy vote. Yesterday, I said I thought it was risky to take on the media, but maybe, just maybe, if they pummel him enough, some of the more reasonable dems and (certainly...okay, hopefully) the independents will start to replace apathy with sympathy for McCain's honorable fight against the all-powerful media and the infallible Obama. McCain as the underdog is a nice fit.