Ben Smith at politico perplexes me.  He does a good job of posting information consistently and actually equally for both candidates.  But then, he often titles them or describes them in a manner that seems to me Hillary favorable.  I wouldn't say biased, but favorable. 

Anyways, in one of today's post, he labelled Obama's disagreeing with Rev Wright as "Defending Wright."  Which is wrong.  Obama doesn't defend Wright.  He just doesn't go far enough in rejecting him - and don't get me wrong, he needs to step up and reject Wright now. 

A better title would have been:  "Obama comments on Rev Wright."  Or, "Obama dos not reject but agrees with Rev Wright" would even be okay.  But saying he defends him?  Please Ben Smith.

Its a pattern of things for Ben Smith - who despite calling his blog something akin to having his fingers on the pulse of the Democratic race - who occasionally reverses for a few posts to make it seem like he's Obama fair.  He's not.  He's Obama favorable. And I wouldn't mind if he didn't call his blog, "A running conversation about the Democratic Party's choice for President in 2008." 

Some may argue, well what about DailyKos?  Its heavily Obamacentric no?  I agree.  But the difference is that Dailykos doesn't live on a MSM type publication which politico.com is.  They're aiming to be a bigger fish in the large political media pond.  If so, then, they need to tell Ben Smith to be less Clinton favorable.