He Didn't Just Say That

Does ABC News have one standard for candidates of one party and another standard for candidates of another? UPI’s Martin Sieff sure saw one:

Charles Gibson of ABC News was out for blood and inherently applied a double-standard compared with the kid gloves George Stephanopoulos used on Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night.

Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. By contrast, when Obama referred to his “Muslim faith” on Sunday and did not correct himself, Stephanopoulos rushed in at once to help him and emphasize that the senator had really meant to say his Christian faith.

To put it crudely, maybe ABC News has a Bush Doctrine all its own.