What the media can do to a candidate.

There's a great post right now on Daily Kos pointing out that, for whatever reason, the media has gone in search of a controversy to feed their audiences and found Reverend Wright.

The poster, TocqueDeville, illustrates what's happening now to Barack Obama with a compelling parallel: what happened to Howard Dean after Iowa. This is old history, of course, and I'm only posting because I hadn't seen this clip before. But if you'll listen carefully about 1:13 in, you'll hear what eyewitnesses would have told you they heard on the night of the infamous "Dean Scream." The difference between what you hear on this recording and what was played everywhere in the news - well, it's just symbolic of the difference between the substance of the Wright controversy and the way the media has played it up.

What's ironic to me is the way Democrats at the time mocked Dean and questioned his judgement, his media savvy. And the most common retort of those of us supporting the governor was, "just you wait. Whoever gets nominated - no matter how savvy they are - the media will do exactly the same to them." We were right. And it's happening again to the party's presumptive nominee. I don't know what to do about it. But there it is.