Much has been said about (and several Saturday Night Live skits have lampooned) the media’s infatuation with Barack Obama. But sometimes a gaffe is so revealing and so encapsulates a candidate’s underlying fault lines (“I actually did vote for the $87M before I voted against it.”) that a sympathetic media can’t spin it away. “Quell the furor” (h/t Instapundit) phrases are a sure sign the media is playing this one down the middle and letting the chips fly where they will.
Here, here, here and here are just a few examples of the beating Obama is taking in the mainstream media. In part, this is because the Clinton team has gone into full court press and, in part, because there is no other campaign story to report now. And sometimes the “helmet in the tank” moment is just so obviously the biggest story there is that there is no stopping it.
