Still Fawning Over Obama

Since my political instincts are hopeless, and since today may turn out to be the last day of the Democratic party's race for the nomination, with any luck this will be my last political post for a while.

Months ago, we commented on how the media was fawning over Obama (see Words and Pictures.) Now even Democratic insiders are noticing it and expressing outrage.

For some good laughs, and an example of the "hands off Obama" prejudice, take a look at David Letterman's Monologues the past few weeks. He's been skewering McCain, Nader, Romney, et al, with a joke whose structure is, "He looks like the guy who..." See if you can find even one reference to Obama.