More attacks on McCain, of course. Newsweek is running with a story this week about how Cindy McCain forgot to pay taxes on a California condo inhabited by an elderly aunt. She owes about $6,700 in back taxes. As the article notes, Cindy McCain is a “beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune” so I’m guessing that this was primarily an oversight. Embarassing? Perhaps, but as real estate scandals go it’s very small potatoes compared to Tony Rezko.

Mainly, it smacks of parroting the Obama team’s oppo research; in my experience most reporters are often too lazy to do things like pull tax records. And I’ve already documented at least one instance where Mark Hosenball, one of the story’s four co-authors, unethically carried water for the Obama campaign.

But mainly, I want to know why is the media leaving no stone unturned when it comes to the McCains when Obama is virtually unexamined. He’s got Chicago politicans in business with the mob raising money for his campaign that no one outside of Chicago has really reported on, and one of the largest circulating magaines in the country wants to make a big deal out of an unpaid bill Cindy McCain could cover with her sofa change? But I guess we already knew where Newsweek’s priorities are.