“My question is: why did they swallow the same thing when he lied so baldly about Reverend Wright? Well, that was another era.”

I think the question is backwards. We know very well why they buried the Rev. Wright stuff. The same reason they buried everything else about Obama. The question is why would they begin this (so far very modest) exposure of Obama’s emptiness now? Some say, because they are worried about going off the credibility cliff with Obama. Please. It is several years too late for the MSM to recover its credibility. Besides, where has their concern for their credibility been these past several years as their readerships and audiences have, well, gone off the cliff?

Perhaps cfbleachers’s point at #5 above, that the media will start to abandon obviously dead Dems so they can start supporting the next wave, has some merit. But it’s way too early to start abandoning Obama. I suspect this small portion of one AP piece is an outlier, not a harbinger. I highly doubt we will see any signifcant movement of the MSM to holding Obama accountable or being honest about him.