By Jack Izzard Forget presidential - the welcome given to Barack Obama in Berlin was more befitting for a rock star than a politician.
Barack Obama
done a pretty good job:

As we have observed throughout the last several years, the notion of fairness in journalism has been guided by a miscalculated rule that in order to report good news about a liberal or a liberal success, news reporting has to be counterbalanced either with unearned praise for conservatives or trumped up and parroted negative news about the aforementioned liberal or liberal success. Oh, and the reverse doesn't apply. That's the rule.
And so now that Senator Obama's Berlin address is in the can, get ready for the backlash from the very serious corporate media. Get ready for profuse around-the-clock praise of Senator McCain and/or unfair, invented criticism of Senator Obama.

By Teresa Puente on July 24, 2008 2:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) His campaign recently released two videos showing all the loving the

Conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, three days after Maliki’s Spiegel interview dropped, with the same percentage of Democrats sampled as in their last poll (42%) and actually fewer Republicans this time than last (33% versus 35%). Head to head: Obama 41, McCain 40. On handling Iraq: McCain 47, Obama 39, a two-point gain since June. Maybe Obama’s position on the surge is starting to penetrate? There’s circumstantial evidence in the crosstabs. A quarter of independents and 15% of Democrats perceive “major improvements” in Iraq from the surge; many more see “minor improvements.” The fact that Obama’s popular with Europeans likewise is a wash. Democrats see it as positive, Republicans

In an editorial for Investor's Business Daily recovering journalist-turned-novelist William Tate adds up the political contributions that have come in from people who list media companies as their employers. Tate writes:
An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans.
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by FOXNews.com By Ernie Paicopolos As Barack Obama travels abroad, Americans seem to think most members of the media are in line with his message,

By Larry Eichel WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - With Barack Obama in the Middle East, John McCain returned to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, focusing on energy policy and his Democratic rival's position regarding the Iraq war.
Speaking at a town hall meeting here, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said that Obama, even after visiting Iraq, was showing "a remarkable failure to understand the facts on the ground" by continuing to call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on a fixed timetable.
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The Drudge Report ran a juicy item about the fact that only one reporter showed up to cover Republican John McCain at a campaign stop in New Hampshire the other day.
Just one.
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In the latest harsh humor about all the attention that Barack Obama is getting on his overseas trip, John McCain's campaign has issued his traveling press corps fake new credentials.
"JV Squad. Left Behind to Report in America," the tag says, over a red-white-and-blue, fireworks-exploding image of the Statue of Liberty.
in on Thursday, the Republican National Committee plans to air a radio ad, hitting Obama's record on supporting the troops, in three other Berlins back home -- in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

'The media is in LOVE with Barack,' McCain's camp says in a video that mocks the reporting on the Democrat.
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
aints about media bias have galvanized conservatives, which could help McCain as he tries to solidify the Republican base. In February, the campaign sought donations by citing a widely criticized New York Times report about McCain's ties to a female lobbyist. That appeal set a campaign record for the amount raised online in one day to that point.