Legal Commentary

Media Darling

By Big Tent Democrat

Bob Somerby writes:

Readers! It may be hard for some Dems to believe, but an increasing number of mainstream scribes are now hacking away on your side! . . . Something else happens when hacks take your side—Josh Marshall rushes to praise their hackistry.

Somerby's mistake is that the Media scribes are taking Obama's side, not the Dems' side. Obama is the Media Darling. Not "a Dem." I think this lasts through his probable battle with McCain, which must come as a great shock to the "Straight Talk Expresser." But there it is.

Is it enough for Obama to win in November? I do not know, but it sure don't hurt.

Discussing the same Somerby piece, Digby worries the love affair won't last.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).