… on the Bill’s complaints of anti-Hillary press bias, from WaPo’s Eugene Robinson:

Are the news media being beastly to Hillary Clinton? Are political reporters and commentators — as Bill Clinton suggested but didn’t quite come out and say in a radio interview Tuesday — basically in the tank for Barack Obama? “The political press has avowedly played a role in this election. I’ve never seen this before,” the former president said. “They’ve been active participants in this election. . . . But I don’t want to talk about the press. I want to talk about the people. That’s what’s wrong with this election, people trying to take this election away from the people.”

And then he calls Clinton on a string of untrue statements:

… I should note that throughout the interview with Washington’s WMAL, Bill Clinton was back in loose-cannon mode. He said Hillary Clinton “has been the underdog ever since Iowa,” which is not true. To support that unsupportable assertion, he implied that the political establishment is opposed to his wife’s candidacy, which is not true. And he claimed that “we’ve gotten plenty of delegates on a shoestring,” which is true only if you don’t count the more than $100 million the Clinton campaign has raised (and mostly spent).

I think there’s a fair case to be made that the press is extraordinarily generous to Barack Obama and probably will continue to be. But what you’re hearing from the ex-president is the hell-hath-no-fury scorn of a jilted media favorite. Which is why it’s going to be so much fun watching Obama’s battle with former media darling John McCain, who doesn’t seem to have gotten the message that the press that celebrated the “maverick” only loved him for giving Indian rope-burns to religious right types and George W. Bush. They media doesn’t love mavericks who beat up on progressive messiahs. When it comes to his love affair with the media, McCain is like that poor guy who’s already been dumped–and everybody knows it but him.