Of course, if you ask "John, how do you know?" you'll be called "arrogant, audacious, elitist, out of touch, egomaniacal, messianic, self-centered, presumptuous, preening, vain, 'too cute for school,' 'too cute by half,' uppity, out of your 'place,' incapable of understanding, uneducated, unwilling to listen, self-important, non-deferential" and the list goes on.

Please read this:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/and-the-press-defends-mccain-y.php

And please go after ABC. This post mentions another disgustingly biased and unnecessary attack on Obama from ABC - again. I am beginning to equate them with Fox in my head. Disreputable assholes.

ABC also played a critical role in making the NAFTA-gate issue an issue (I forget the details but know that was my conclusion at the time) and - as best I could tell - it was the first news source to reference the Rev. Wright comments and mention the infamous tape ................ without ever saying where it came from, who put it together. That's always bothered me, that there's been no curiosity about WHO put that cherry-picked loop of taped vignettes together.

I'm not in the least excusing Rev. Wright, certainly not his later comments, or saying that some of the statements on the tape don't go way beyond the pale. BUT it surely akes a difference whether one first hears his "God damn America" statement stuffed in between other outrageous, offensive statements OR in the full context, as a quotation from someone else in the middle of a rather pedestrian sermon. But the person or persons who 'shaped' the public's first perception of Wright has never been identified or even sought.

When the whole thing broke, I started poking around to find out 'how' it broke, and the best I could find, was mention of the tape and quotes from it in Jake Tapper's "Political Punch" before it was mentioned anywhere else, even on Fox news. Perhaps there was an explanation that I missed, but I never saw any statement of how it came about that Tapper learned of the tape.

Since then I've become increasingly skeptical of the reports on ABC site and, must admit, wind up avoiding it. Which is probably the worst thing to do. So........ how does one "go after" ABC?