If you're like me, and I know I am, on the serious questions of the day, you look to our nation's most plentiful natural resource, conservative pundits, to tell you how to think. And then you know you are correct in doing the opposite.

Dog bites man. Sun rises in east. The WaPo's Fred Hiatt tries to cover for Republicans. Watch Fred Hiatt make some fancy verbal footwork trying to hide the stinky dead elephant in the room that is John McCain's breaking campaign finance law.

This is just getting ridiculous. Per C&L, Candy Crowley on CNN blasts Obama for waffling on taking public financing for the general, but makes absolutely no mention of the fact that John McCain is in violation of FEC law and has been told by FEC chairman David Mason that he can't just withdraw from the system, as he insists on doing.

How stupid would Obama have to be to enter into an agreement to abide by regulations with someone who has already shown he has no intention of honoring them?

Broder nibbles on a Pepperidge Farm sponge cake and remembers his first Olympics -- when he cheered on Heracles.

Deb Howell greets Washington Post readers who want more content in the paper with four small words Sunday morning: Get over it. Please.

The Obama "pastor problem" is a controversy cooked up almost entirely within the media realm. Once they sank their fangs into it, the whole zombielike corps of pundits, cable talking heads, and radio talk-show hosts couldn't let go of it. And equally remarkable was the bias that was on display in discussing it: News anchors and talking heads flatly referred to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's videotaped remarks as "anti-American," "hate-filled," "vicious," "offensive," and so on and on. It's telling that none of them also observed that, for the most part, Wright's remarks were factually accurate, and deeply reflective of a reality that most African Americans live with -- and which most white Americans do their best to ignore, deny, and forget.

Enjoy the video? You'll see it a lot around here between now and November, never fear. But don't expect Traditional Media to feature it too much.

Oh, joy. Sally Quinn lectures the Spitzers on adultery. Isn't that like Hitler lecturing Churchill on war crimes? Lil' Sally Homewrecker must think we all have short memories. She thinks wrong.

In this morning's pontificating from Mount Blowhard Hitchens states the following as a justification for invading Iraq -- and you may have heard this one before:

Fred Hiatt tries his best to do the intellectual slalom on John McCain's pending FEC violations by finding a way to discover meaningful campaign finance reform...by ignoring campaign finance reform...to the benefit of...wait for it...John McCain!Who could not have foreseen? [Condi]