Kinsley Nutshells The Press

Photo via Alex(inyoureye).

This may be the most succinct description of press behavior this campaign season that I’ve seen. Although it may have been an inadvertent effort in a live chat, Michael Kinsley nutshells the 2008 campaign press coverage in four paragraphs:

Athens, Tenn.: Is there, in your opinion, a media bias toward or against a particular candidate in general? It seems that during Sen. McCain’s first run he was the media darling. That of course did not help him. Now many assume that Sen. Obama is the de facto media favorate.

Michael Kinsley: I guess I share the conventional wisdom on both of these points. McCain has always been a media darling. At a magazine editors convention a few years ago, he started a speech by saying he was happy to be there addressing "my base." He gets and deserves points for jokes like that.

And the SNL take on Obama is also correct. He is a media darling now. Hillary is rightly bitter. I am puzzled–something happened about six weeks ago that was like a light switch turning off, or on: all of a sudden, she became "the Clintons" and every resentment of her and her husband came to the surface among the media, liberals, everybody.

That said, I am not the best person to explain the media Obama swoon, since I have been a swooner myself.

No doubt we’ll all turn on him at some point, faithless bastards that we are.

Doesn’t that just sum up the whole koo-koo-ka-choo infotainment presidential horserace blather and buddy-buddy media bonanza in a nutshell?

Eric Boehlert has more, as does Somerby and Digby. Apparently skepticism is still too much to ask…

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