Reply #10: Yep. And it's one thing to have this nonsense going on in Freeperville ...

[krkaufman]

... or its Murdoch media outlet, but for CNN and MSNBC to be *CREATING* the smears is a whole 'nother thing. (It's not even like they're reporting on someone else smearing Obama this time around, they're doing the dirty work themselves.)

It's a trivial issue, certainly, but a bad sign of the media coverage that is to come if it isn't slapped back.