Let’s look at the ways this is dumb.

* Obama beat McCain by 7%. He beat him by 10 million votes overall. Bush lost to Gore in the popular vote by 0.51%. Gore got over 500,000 more votes than Bush.

* The 2000 election went into a recount

* The recount was halted by Bush bringing a case to the Supreme court, adjudicated by some judges appointed by his father, using legal precedents that only somehow applied to this one case

So, in one case, we had a clear and present winner beyond dispute yet conservatives insist that a community activist group somehow stole the election for the victor.

In the other case we have a close, complicated election that involved the intervention of the Supreme court in which the winner of the lesser amount of votes was eventually sworn in as president.

Yeah, the two cases are just the same. Where’s Obama’s birth certificate?

The New Republic is horrible.

(Back in 2006, Jason Zengerle called supporters of Ned Lamont “Lamonsters”, is anyone surprised?)

‘I attended all those meetings that President Obama had with Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao,’ Huntsman said, referring to the Chinese president and premier.

‘I’ve got to say some of the reporting I saw afterward was off the mark. I saw sweeping comments about things that apparently weren’t talked about, when they were discussed in great detail in the meetings,’ he said.

It’s a pretty safe posture to assume the media is just totally getting stories wrong.

In Media Matters’ defense, we caught the other doctored Hannity videos.

Lou proves it is possible to disagree agreeably. An important standard for other talk show hosts to keep in mind.

Here’s some of Dobbs’ agreeable (to Lanny Davis) rhetoric:

Dobbs says caller makes a “good point” in suggesting American Muslim soldiers must be “thoroughly screened”

Dobbs runs with debunked Obama quote that even Limbaugh acknowledged might be fake

Dobbs says “problems with race” are “vastly overstated,” blames media, SPLC

And so on.

Palin also writes harshly of CBS anchor Katie Couric, whom she describes as ‘badgering’ and biased.

Here’s Couric “badgering” Palin about which newspapers she reads. TOUGH.

Run, Sarah, Run!

And Chris Wallace? Off your knees. It’s just… embarrassing.

In their minds, historically, liberals and Democrats just roll over and die when the media goes on the attack. Often, liberals and Dems have apologized for no good reason simply due to media attacks. The Obama campaign didn’t do this, and so far neither has the Obama White House.

This is very upsetting for in the media and the conservative movement. Their hearts wish for the day when Democrats just sucked it up and took it like during the campaigns of people like Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. It is highly upsetting to them when Dems don’t just take it.

Oh, damn.

The hypocrisy, critics say, lies in CNN’s decision to woo Hispanic viewers with a prime-time documentary while still giving Mr. Dobbs a nightly forum. Roberto Lovato, a founding member of Presente.org, a Latino advocacy group, said in a statement, “We won’t allow the network to court us as viewers while, at the same time, they allow Dobbs to spread lies and misinformation about us each night.”

Separately, Mr. Dobbs is also the target of a “Drop Dobbs” campaign by the progressive groups NDN, Media Matters for America, and others. That effort started after Mr. Dobbs repeatedly raised questions about President Obama’s birth certificate.

There is no indication that the campaigns are affecting CNN’s revenue, but they are highlighting Mr. Dobbs’s status as an outlier at the channel, which has sought to position itself as a middle ground of sorts in the fractious cable news arena. Mr. Dobbs is known to be exploring an exit from CNN, and he is viewed as a potential hire for the Fox Business Network, an upstart channel owned by the News Corporation.

As I’ve said before, Lou Dobbs already has a Fox News show… it just happens to be on CNN.