The Military-Media Complex

"No, I don't, either."

Geraghty may be a right-winger, but here's lefty commentator John Ridley who is also troubled:

"Jeremiah Wright nontroversy? Not a problem.

"Bitter clingy blue collar types, flag lapel pins? He can navigate those annoyances with ease.

"But come November the Bill Ayers issue rushing up in Barack Obama's rear view mirror could be a real political problem.

"A former member of the Weather Underground Organization -- a radical group responsible for a string of bombings in the early seventies - Ayers was a privileged kid turned domestic terrorist. Reformed and respectable Ayers is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an informal advisor to Chicago's mayor and a past contributor to an Obama campaign . . .

"What someone did forty years ago -- within reason -- should not damn them forever. But that's assuming the offending individual pays their debt to society and repents. Ayers has done neither."

Portfolio's Matt Cooper chides Charlie for his math:

"If Americans needed more proof that the media elite are rich and out of touch, Gibson gave them more. In the St. Anselm's College debate in New Hampshire, Gibson asserted that average professors make $100,000. They don't. The median household income is around $46,000. For families it's closer to $68,000. In Philadelphia, he blithely repeated the canard that cutting capital gains taxes yields more revenue. The short answer is that sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. The rooster crows and the sun rises. Just because revenue has risen following some capital gains cuts doesn't mean it automatically yields a cut. Gibson stated it as fact.

"I thought Obama did better than most commentators did. He took a lot of crap and answered it pretty sensibly, saying that the issues were distractions."

Are we approaching a turning point? Joe Klein has "a gut feeling that the Philadelphia debate may have been the last straw for the Democratic Party, that the superdelegates are about to rush to Barack Obama in order to end this thing and liberate him to actually answer the Republican-style attacks that Hillary Clinton has been previewing . . .

"There is still the possibility that if Clinton really blows out Obama in Pennsylvania--a twenty point win, say--there will be some second thoughts. And this is not to say that Democrats are entirely thrilled with a candidate who has such obvious difficulties getting white middle class people to vote for him. But there is a growing sense that the bleeding needs to be staunched. If he's to be the nominee, Obama needs to start putting together his general election campaign now--and start responding to the character attacks in a way that won't be restrained by his desire not to offend fellow Democrats. My guess is that the superdelegate tidal wave is about to begin."

Could this be the first sign? A Newsweek poll gives Obama a 54-35 lead among registered Democrats and Dem leaners.

Or should I believe this Gallup tracking poll, which gives Obama a mere 47-45 advantage?

The Washington Post devotes enormous space to the question of John McCain's temper.

Finally, sex on the campaign trial: Who's hooking up with whom.

Howard Kurtz hosts CNN's weekly media program, "Reliable Sources.