Press Confirms Media's Support for Obama

The New Republic's John Judis adds further confirmation to the belief that the media is in the tank for Barack Obama. Typically reporters have denied such charged allegations but not Judis, who pulls back the curtain on the journalism industry's complicity in Obama's rise.

Writes Judis:

Clinton's second great political mistake lay in how she dealt with Obama's challenge. Sometime in December, having realized that Obama was going to be a genuine rival for the nomination, she and her campaign decided to go negative on him. ...

John McCain and Mitt Romney were doing similar things to each other--and Obama did some of it to Clinton, too. But there a was difference between her doing this to Obama and McCain's doing it to Romney--a difference that eluded Clinton, her husband, and her campaign staff. My friend David Kusnet, Bill Clinton's former speechwriter, explained the difference to me by citing what ex-heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson had once said about Muhammad Ali. "I was just a fighter," Patterson had said, "but he was history." Obama, too, was, and is, history--the first viable African-American presidential candidate. Yes, Hillary Clinton was the first viable female candidate, but it is still different. Race is the deepest and oldest and most bitter conflict in American history--the cause of our great Civil War and of the upheavals of the 1950s and '60s. And if some voters didn't appreciate the potential breakthrough that Obama's candidacy represented, many in the Democratic primaries and caucuses did--and so did the members of the media and Obama's fellow politicians. And as Clinton began treating Obama as just another politician, they recoiled and threw their support to him.

Sorry, but there is just no other way to read it. The "they" that "recoiled and threw their support to him" are clearly referring to the "many" in the primaries/caucuses AND the media and politicians, particularly since the they comes immediately after the last two interest groups identified. And yes I called the media an interest group. What else are they in the wake of Judis' revelation?