Reply #7: Here's what Digby wrote, and it rings true to me

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"Because the beltway press corps has conditioned itself to respond only to Republicans. They've trained themselves not take Democrats seriously, either the rank and file who inconvenience them with e-mails they do not want to read, or the leadership they simply disdain. Unpopularity obligates them to criticize Bush at least mildly, but the relief they feel when his numbers edge up a bit is palpable. They don't seem to know this about themselves."

The New York Times needs to change its motto, because it no longer is "All the news that's fit to print."