Could it be that the scales are beginning to fall from the eyes of at least some in the media?This piece by McClatchy's Margaret Talev is offered here only to illustrate the point that there are some in the press who take their jobs seriously.I might mention as an aside that there have been few media organs as much in the tank for Obama as McClatchy so Talev's piece is doubly interesting in that regard. And she doesn't pull many punches in describing Obama's fall from the heights either:From the beginning, Barack Obama's special appeal was his vow to remain an idealistic outsider, courageous and optimistic, and never to shift his positions for political expediency, or become captive of the Inside-the-Beltway intelligentsia, or kiss up to special interests and big money donors. In recent weeks, though, Obama has done all those things.He abandoned public campaign financing after years of championing it. Backed a compromise on wiretap legislation that gives telecom companies retroactive...(Read Full Post)