Network News Anchors in Obama's Entourage

As predicted, the mainstream media has jilted John McCain and embraced Obama as the hot new thing:

The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.

Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.

John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.

Obama has "proven adept at generating excitement," says David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio. He said the anchors hope "a little bit of that excitement will rub off on their newscasts if they can convey an American phenomenon abroad, if that's what it turns out to be. Senator McCain is not as magnetic a figure in that way."

Well he's certainly adept at generating something, but I do have to agree that the words "McCain" and "magnetic" probably do not belong in the same sentence.

But have you seen the nightly news ratings? They need all the excitement they can get. But all three of them following the Obamessiah. Come on, that's a little unseemly and transparent, even for the mainstream media. One at a time guys, one at a time...