Brass Knuckles

John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei of the Politico blog talk in depth about the media’s bias toward Obama, and the firestorm that ABC ignited by daring to ask questions that made Obama feel uncomfortable.

The shower of indignation on Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos over the last few days is the clearest evidence yet that the Clintonites are fundamentally correct in their complaint that she has been flying throughout this campaign into a headwind of media favoritism for Obama.

Last fall, when NBC’s Tim Russert hazed Clinton with a bunch of similar questions – a mix of fair and impertinent – he got lots of gripes from Clinton supporters.

But there was nothing like the piling on from journalists rushing to validate the Obama criticisms and denouncing ABC’s performance as journalistically unsound.

They do a great job analyzing the shift in the media’s modus operandi over the last couple of election cycles.  A great read. 

Wow – just read Ben Smith’s column; he sent an e-mail from the Clinton campaign criticizing the media’s coverage of the debate to the Washington Post.  The real fun is in the comments.  Yowza!