While he?s uncovered no ?man bites dog? shocker, Newsweek?s Howard Fineman deserves at least some credit for recognizing the double standard mainstream media outlets have applied to the 43rd and 44th presidents:
Now, I hold no brief for George Bush, and I have no desire to launch a screed against the home-field advantage that Obama still gets in the non-Murdoch media. But I do marvel at how Obama has become the hallucinatory Escher drawing of our politics. It’s hard to decide which way the stairs are built, whether they will lead to the roof or basement, and there is no flat middle floor to stand on. To those on the right, he’s evil incarnate, but on the left, he still can do no wrong, or at least nothing so wrong that they are willing to take him on. That “blowout preventer” is still working.
