In reading a (clearly biased) editorial this morning, I came across this statement:

The Republican base already seems to be gearing up to regard defeat not as a verdict on conservative policies, but as the result of an evil conspiracy. A recent Democracy Corps poll found that Republicans, by a margin of more than two to one, believe that Mr. McCain is losing “because the mainstream media is biased” rather than “because Americans are tired of George Bush.”

Granted, it is an editorial, and labeled that way, so the author is entitled to believe that.  However, in doing some reading about the election today, I found this statement about Barack Obama and the way he’s been treating reporters lately:

It has been months since Mr. Obama has ventured with any regularity to the back of his plane where the journalists sit. (The one time he played the board game “Taboo” on a cross-country flight to Oregon is a distant memory.) A reporter shouted to Mr. Obama on Sunday as he climbed the steps of his airplane here, headed for Ohio, to ask why Mr. Obama had not held a news conference in weeks.

“I will,” Mr. Obama said. “On Wednesday.”

Contrast that to the way the NY Times toned their discussion of McCain’s attitude towards reporters in the last few weeks:

During the day he gets almost no exercise, eats the candy and junk food strewn all over his bus, and naps slumped in his seat in the curtained-off front section of his plane. The national reporters he once called his “base” remain banished in the back; aides say he is convinced that they are all rooting for Mr. Obama.

There would in any case be little time for the rolling seminars he once conducted on the bus. He has local reporters aboard for short hops, but he and Mrs. McCain spend far more time entertaining a shifting cast of Republican governors and members of Congress.

Clearly these are both equally neutral statements in their tone, style, and impression of each candidate.  And the liberal media wonders how conservatives can recognize them for what they truly are…

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