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Strangely, I am already tired of the media reporting that the media is giving John McCain a free ride while the Democratic party continues to choose it's candidate. I shouldn't be tired of this. I should agree that McCain is being left alone, and getting only good press - even when he gives an economic speech that is essentially asinine.

But you know what the problem with this story is? It's being reported by the media. While true that the media (or press) is the primary conduit for, you know, reporting - their continued insistence on covering themselves does the country a profound injustice. I really don't want to be informed about which media conglomerate is leaving John McCain alone more, or the manor in which one pundit masquerading as reporter reports more positive Clinton stories than Obama stories, or vice versa. I'd like news please.

You know for like a couple of weeks the American media was dealing with what the candidates were saying about public and foreign policy. It was like 2 1/2 weeks in March. But since the "horse race" took over in the Democratic party, and "capitulation race" came to the staggering result everyone thought it would 2 years ago - there has been no news. None. Just a lot of piss and vinegar. Worse on the Democratic side.

So I don't blame the protracted fight on the Democratic side on the media, but I do blame the McCain pass on them. Why? Well, vanity for one. The Media just doesn't seem to get enough of reporting on itself - which is really stupid, because if politics is show business for ugly people; then journalism is politics for ugly people - and that is some serious ugly. However; I feel that the pass that McCain has been getting is really more rooted in the media feeling bad that they pronounced his candidacy dead in January, and now he's the GOP nominee, yeah, whoops.

The truth is really McCain is getting no more special treatment than any GOP candidate since 1980. The media has overcompensated for there own "liberal bias" since then, but unfairly scrutinizing the democratic candidate, holding them to a higher standard than their GOP counterpart. This may be a good thing for the Democrat party, but the country has really suffered - go back and just look at some of the BS the "media" let Gov. George W. Bush get away with, but hammered VP. Gore. Hey the reporting of the release of the hostages in Iran circa 1980 anyone? Dukakis in a tank..ok probably his fault...but Willie Horton?

And just one more time: Who the hell covers an economic speech in the mist of an economic crisis and doesn't mention that the speaker offers no, not one, solution. Asinine.