How best to describe the relationship between Barack Obama and the mainstream media?  Before and during Barack Obama's tenure as President of the United States, there have been many who have noticed a very special relationship between the president and the liberal media; most notably that the liberal media REALLY loves President Obama. One needs only to check The Media Research Center to see overwhelming evidence of liberal media bias in favor of Barack Obama. Most recently, the liberal bias could be seen in stories about the local press being given "ground rules" for interviews with the president and Joe Biden's staff's attempt at "press management." Even more revealing are ABC's White House correspondent Jake Tapper telling Laura Ingram that the "media helped tip the scales" for Obama in 2008 and NBC's political analyst Mark Halperin on the Today Show saying "the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants." Also, in a very revealing article by departing...(Read Full Post)