This couldn't have been written any better and Alterman and "The Nation" are about as good as it gets. I was stunned by what Milbank wrote and think a lot of other people were too. Alterman should have pointed how conservative the Washington Post is now although the Post and the New York Times and other formerly great publications have sunken to new lows as far as political news is concerned. Watergate would have never become a big story if these newspapers were like they are now and Nixon would have ridden out his corrupt and criminal administration. Every time I read the worlds "liberal media" I get a good belly laugh. The quasi fascists who own virtually all of the major media are disgrace to a free country, or maybe should say a formerly free country. One sickening old man who owns way too much of the media in America is not even a citizen of the United States. Rupert Murdoch is a disgrace and thanks to our gutless Congress he is allowed to have too much influence on this country. Alterman did miss one thing and that was that Keith Olbermann regretfully fired Milbank from his tv show on MSNBC. The only decent news show on Cable and the networks. Hard to believe Milbank wrote what he did after seeing him so much on Olbermann and thinking he was a good guy and an ubiased one. Well, biased towards decent Democrats, not towards silly old John McCain, ha ha. It's ironic Milbank accused Obama of being presumptive, especially when that term could be applied to President McCain. Hard to believe McCain compared himself to Ronald Reagan (another loser) making a policy speech about Russia and practically claiming to be the leader of America. Thank God for Alterman and many others like him and we definitely need more news magazines like "The Nation."