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Pretty much all you need to know about why we call them the "Obamedia":

Try to be an objective journalist by watchdogging the Regime as well as the Loyal Opposition, get punched in the face. Sheesh, when will Jay Levine stop mincing words and tell us what he REALLY thinks?

This Geraghty rant is about a different (yet not entirely so) story, but the spirit is indubitably applicable here:

As far as I can tell, not one news entity in Ohio has picked up the story about revelations of spousal abuse by [Democrat] Representative Charlie Wilson in his divorce papers.

Not a one.

In fact, the only news groups that have even mentioned the story are Townhall.com, our old friend David Freddoso in the Washington Examiner, and here and a few other blogs. Compare this to the Mark Foley scandal, which broke in late September 2006 and dominated the final month of the campaign.

We don’t have a news business. We have a narrative-reinforcement business, and they do a strikingly effective job of collectively averting their eyes from information that hurts their preferred cause. For Pete’s sake, this is wife-beating we’re talking about, and it is admitted in a public record. How is this not news? How is this not something that the voters in Ohio’s 6th congressional district ought to know about before they cast their vote?....

The double standard is now so large you can’t get your head around it. We cannot have a healthy democracy where those whose job is to inform the public see their first duty as protecting the reputations of their preferred incumbents.