embedded with the Obama campaign

Brian Williams clarifies that NBC wasn’t pulling for Obama the other night—the network’s reporters were just really, really excited:

Lee covers Obama for us, and we’re lucky to have him on our roster… he is one of the very best in the business. In the interview, which you can see right here, Lee admits “…it’s almost hard to remain objective…” which as he implies is our goal in our work every day. He’s referring to what all of us who have covered campaigns have felt from time to time: it’s impossible to get the long view…the view from 40,000 feet…while operating at sea level, and inside the bubble.

There’s a simple solution, BriWi: get outside the bubble, where the MSM belongs.

Williams wrote the blog post in response to attacks from “rival campaigns” of Obama’s:

Today we learned that rival political efforts were spinning this as some kind of “bias” on the part of either Lee, or me, or this News Division, and that’s just ridiculous.

What a great, professional word from a “newman”: ridiculous.

Actually, what’s ridiculous is something that Matthew Yglesias picked up on: that there was almost no coverage of the Republican side of the race last night—it was all about the Democrats:

It’s interesting how much more interested the press seems to be in the Democratic race than in the GOP one. When after Iowa there was tons of attention showered on Barack Obama and nothing on Huckabee, I figured that was just part of the vast pro-McCain conspiracy. But after the media got the McCain victory it was hoping for, there’s still more talk about the Democratic result.

Of course, Pew’s studies have been showing for months and months that the MSM skews toward covering the Dems.

BriWi’s grumbling about “rival” (Dem) campaigns doesn’t take possible complaints from the Republican side (not to mention the independent, nonpartisan, interested “news” viewer side) into account at all.