I want to be clear. When you say "they" in terms of smears on Sarah Palin do you only mean the words of Obama and his campaign? Or do you include the leftwing blogosphere? If you're including the blogosphere I don't think I have to prove that there are some pretty horrible smears out there about Obama. This is the rub of the hypocrisy of the "media bias" claims. The vast majority of the "smears" are from internet groups like the Daily Kos. Why is Obama responsible for them, but McCain et al are not responsible for the words of Larry Sinclair?

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Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s president he’ll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys’ network in Washington.' I’m not making this up. This is somebody been in Congress for 26 years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna take on the old boys' network,” he said. “In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting!- Obama, 9/17/2008