I don’t think the WaPo should be taken by surprise (nor should the “excellence in journalism” laddies) that the Obama phenomenon appears to be running away from them.

For the last six or eight years, the MSM has been diligently preparing the groundwork for just such a runaway. Their hatred of the Bush administration fueled some of the most savage, one-sided daily news coverage since yellow journalism, in their attempt to damage the administration and ensure the victory of whichever candidate was least like Bush. The US was always wrong, and it pampered Big Oil, and it didn’t listen to the cultured Europeans, and it tortured, tortured, tortured, tortured those cute little innocent furriners of the ‘resistance’. Almost as badly as said journalists tortured the concept of providing news to citizens in their zeal to bulldoze public opinion.

What a setup for a snake-oil salesman who comes promoting “change”, without saying anything more definite than that he embodies good, and opposes evil. And YOU know who’s evil, kiddies, so send your allowances to the website where all the disappearing gets done.