If we lived in a country with an ethical and serious media, this story would be all over the news as yet more evidence of the press throwing this race for John McCain.
In a country with a truly "fair and balanced" media, after the the press were done wringing their hands for weeks debating the charges they were being unfair to John McCain because they are following his lead and focusing their attention on Barack Obama, they would have flogged themselves over charges that their coverage of the Obama campaign was disproportionately negative.
But, Sadly, No, the American press isn't that kind of journalistic institution. Because as Gavin M. from that very same blog discovered, we are being fed political analysis from reporters who get their stories from message board comments in threads they started themselves.
Yes folks, as Gavin points out, the "Obama is too skinny to be president" meme was started by the Wall Street Journal reporter herself on a Yahoo message board.
So while Obama has to smack down yet another moronic standard of presidential quality, let's all thank the Wall Street Journal and Amy Cholzick for providing another distraction from the real issues that should be determining this election.
Update: As MrvnMouse notes below, this media narrative sounds like a piece from The Onion. And as Greg Mitch shows in the DK post he just put up, it was.