The article totally ignores the fact that, throughout the primary campaign, and indeed, throughout McCain's entire political career, he has been given a free ride by the mainstream media. The only problem with the critical press he has now received is that it is years late. The notion that the media has been more deferential to Obama than too McCain is a joke. While the media has only now begun to raise legitimate questions about McCain's dubious record and even more dubious claim to be an independent "maverick," Obama has been plagued with mountains of publicity about things like whether or not he wears a flag pin and what people who preach from the pulpit of his church have said, whether or not he was there to hear it. Only after weeks of hammering Obama about what Rev. Wright had to said did the media even begin to pick up the stories about Revs. Hagee and Parsley, two lunatic bigots whose endorsement John McCain actively sought. Any suggestion of medial bias against John McCain should have been laughed off for the nonsense that it is.