Personally I think once you ever muse something like that aloud your journalistic integrity is shot. I think that makes a very strong case as to why to fire him. Who could trust what he says now, assuming they ever did?

According to the Constitution, the role of watching over the president belongs, not to the press, but to the other two branches of government. With the other two branches of government, there are established procedures and standards. With the press, any witless scribbler can concoct accusations out of thin air - and history proves it.

The media has largely convinced themselves, and a sad portion of the American public, that our government depends on the press. That attitude's self-serving agenda should be enough to make the public skeptical, but beyond that, the further irony is that these hacks who demand acountability from the president reject any accountability themselves.

This is a free country, and they can write whatever they wish. The fraud comes when the media styles itself as a key ingredient to democracy. They aren't, but they claim it only to magnify their own importance. They have no more claim to being essential to democracy than the people pushing "male enhancement" pills. Each is a for-profit business that has no special constitutional protection. Yes, free speech is an ingredient to democracy, but that right belongs to everyone, not just to the narrow, self-serving news industry.

And to anyone who thinks, "sure, but that's not how it is in the real world - we need the media" ... that very thought proves that you have fallen for the rhetoric and myth that the media themselves created. Consider yourself a zombie.

Watch the White House like a hawk?

It's a cyclic thing. The MSM watches the WH like a hawk in "Republican term cycles."

Would have been interesting in 2000 to have polled the MSM on how many times the likes of James Raidy and John Huang had visited Pres. Clinton in the White House? (;~/ gary

   Of course these jackals are worried about what criticism of obama can do.  Look at what they were able to do to George Bush with nothing other than a coordinated effort to destroy his Presidency.  Heck, they even took down Bill Clinton to protect their 'Chosen One'.  With obama only getting 53% of the vote any critical narrative now could easily push him into negative territory.  Obama, as President will be constrained by reality when it comes to bold new initiatives so negative criticism will come from the left and right.  We'll know when obama is in any kind of trouble because just like in the Clinton years, whenever Clinton was having trouble we were constantly subjected to polls that found he had overwhelming support of the American people and they don't care what he did they just want him to continue on doing the Peoples Business.

Wait a minute (he says, stroking his chin), weren't we told during the last eight years that journalists were "professionals," and thus did not allow their personal political preferences to skew their reporting??? Wasn't the the entire basis of the press's defense against reports of Leftward bias (despite what multiple objective studies showed)? Now they tell us it's maybe not so true?

You want an honest to goodness White House Watch column? Put a conservative in charge of writing it!