The so-called left wing doesn’t have to make charges that the mainstream media is taking it very easy on Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain, compared with his Democratic Party challengers, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Lefties don’t have to because so many of the show anchors/news hosts flat out SAY that’s what they’re doing, along with the suggestion that they MIGHT - and only MIGHT, mind you - ask McCain slightly tougher questions come September or October.

I’ve heard MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann talk of it, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and several others there, and I won’t even bother to mention Fox, whose policy is to gut every Dem they find.

Gee, I wonder what the press will talk about then post-Dem candidate selection and pre-perhaps asking McCain tough questions in the fall. Maybe we can discuss Cindy McCain’s “family recipes” all stolen verbatim from The Food Network. That’s been about the level of “investigative journalism” being shown this year.