Todays column by Maureen Dowd is an excellent jumping off point for a media double-standard that continues to be a bee buzzing in my bonnet (OK, I don't wear a bonnet!).
Shocked that our Fifth Estate would somehow fall flat in their reporting duties? I didn't think so.
So, here we go kids! Follow me on the other side as I explain how Dowd and other pundits have their heads up their collective arses!

So, I'm watching Meet The Press and another Clintonista is trotted out to disrespect Democrats and whole states in our Country.
Ed Rendell just said that the vote in Iowa, my home state, was undemocratic.
He also refused to say that Obama should win if:

1. He has the most delegates.

2. He wins the most states.

3. He has the most popular votes.

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I have been voting, volunteering, and electioneering for about two decades. I remember my first Presidential vote back in 1984 for Walter Mondale. My best friend and I walked across campus and both did our civic duty and when we talked about it on the way back to the dorm, he said he had voted for Reagan.
This guy is still my best friend twenty years later and he is still a perfect model of how politics and peoples attitudes perplex me.
Since that time I have went through periods where I was too self-involved and busy to vote (Dukakis v. Bush I) - although these were VERY short lapses - to being hugely involved and spending massive amounts of time pounding the streets for a candidate (Tsongas, Clinton, Kerry). I even found time to work on local issues like preservation of the central Texas aquifer, just west of Austin. It has all been good.