Will Obama’s momentum come to an abrupt halt because of the bad news that CNN is reporting at every opportunity this morning?

There’s no link, because none is available yet at CNN. Here’s what’s available on Google News.

Boston Globe Obama Adviser Denies Trade Remarks The Associated Press - 9 hours ago “On NAFTA, Goolsbee suggested that Obama is less about fundamentally changing the agreement and more in favour of strengthening/clarifying language on … NAFTA SHAFTA ABC News That 3 am call — hello? hello? San Francisco Chronicle Obama Adviser Says Canadian Officials Misinterpreted His NAFTA Remarks CNSNews.com Tribune Chronicle - National Review Online all 559 news articles »

On CNN this morning, Candy Crowley, the “reporter” who was supposedly telling the story, had to be interrupted by American Morning anchor John Roberts. Crowley embroidered a very complicated tale without the meat. Roberts had to insist that she make it plain that the Obama campaign had been caught in an extremely embarrassing position.

Just another example of how in-the-tank the media is for Obama. I will come back and provide the transcript when it’s available.

Meanwhile: as I said yesterday, when I noted an uptick in positive news for Hillary and a bad few days for Obama:

But we’re on Feiler Faster time. Anyone willing to predict anything about Tuesday’s upcoming primaries is a fool.

Negative coverage of Obama is also growing, if you believe Howard Kurtz, who has been relentless in saying that the media has been favoring him over Hillary.

Would Clinton have skated as easily if she were found to have visited radicals tied to violence? Or bought land from an indicted businessman, as in the Rezko case? Or if the pastor of her church had talked about “this racist United States of America,” as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who heads Obama’s church, has?

That is hard to imagine.

Kurtz backs it up with a statistic from the Center for Media and Public Affairs.:

 From Dec. 16 through Feb. 19, it says, the three network newscasts aired reports that were 84 percent positive for Obama and 53 percent positive for Clinton. She scored higher on evaluations of policy and public performance, but that amounted to only 10 percent of the coverage.

He also mentions that the Chicago newspapers have been the hardest on Obama so far. Here’s what Chicago Sun-Times writer Lynn Sweet is reporting today:

Problems back home?

And she goes on to name a list of people who will become familiar to us (as cartoon caricatures) as Obama’s campaign continues: Tony Rezko, Louis Farrakhan, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Austan Goolsbee, and William Ayers.

Based on the attempted guilt-by-association trip w/ William Ayers, I assume that a lot of this innuendo is bogus.*** Nevertheless, Obama should have been questioned about some of these things by the national press long, long, long ago.

Instead, the media has been busy building the Obama is the Messiah narrative, as Tim Noah noted in Slate back in January 2007. It was fed to them by “Obama’s Narrator,” as Ben Wallace-Wells wrote in April 2007.

Let’s see what happens! Nobody knows—and that’s what makes this the best political campaign in memory.

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** I won’t defend Ayers’s record in the Weather Underground; I most certainly will defend his right to his opinions, and his right to make a life for himself after paying his debt to society on the terms that society deemed appropriate.

And I unequivocally renounce, denounce, and reject the efforts to smear Obama based on his friendship with someone who is not currently plotting to overthrow the American government or to otherwise make mischief in American society.

Louis Farrakhan, on the other hand, has been dedicated to making mischief in American society for three decades, stirring up animosities between blacks and Jews by constantly promoting a poisonous anti-Semitism among his flock, preaching that blacks were deliberately targeted and persecuted by Jews.