THis morning's "special report" headline in the St Paul Pioneer press:
"Barack Obama is black. Will that matter?"
The paper has had a history all year of selecting extremely favorable Republican-coverage stories off the wire, and noticeably slanted Democratic-coverage off teh wire. Within the last month or two, they've published stories bringing out all the flag pin controversy, the Reverend Wright controversy and a whole host of other debunked crap, months after it had been put to rest in the rest of the media.
This, though, is just a bunch of blatant partisan handwringing meant to rally the troops.
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