Why doesn't the "conservative press" act as docile and compliant as the mainsteam media, Barack Obama asked, not in those precise words, yesterday. CNN's Jack Cafferty wonders why all of the network news anchors will tag along on Obama's upcoming trip abroad while they all stayed at home when John McCain went overseas. Cafferty points out that there may be something to the complaints of bias: "The three broadcast network newscasts, which have 20 million viewers combined, spent about 114 minutes covering Obama since June, compared to 48 minutes for McCain. Obama has been on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines 12 times in the last 3 years, compared with 5 for McCain. And in the last few weeks, Obama has also landed on the cover of Rolling Stone and US Weekly, along with interview of his family by 'Access Hollywood.'' As Cafferty points out, there are some reasons for the unbalanced coverage: McCain is a known commodity while Obama is a fresh face, the historic nature of Obama's run, and the fact that the Democrats' primary battle didn't end until last month. But atop all of those innocent explanations there is another one that calls into question the commitment of journalists to their craft: some journalists allow their politics to guide their coverage.

They're going to be all over the "Obama 08' World Tour". Maybe they'll all have t-shirts made up with all the countries that he plays in. They love their new rock star.

All of your points are, as ever, well taken. But I haven't missed McCain one damned bit. Maybe I will in December.

Agreed, agreed, but one missing point seems to matter: McCain, the most boring person on the planet, seems to not be runnig a campaign.

He's BarakObamazistable.