The Media in England does get it

Not really. I read The Economist and they've definitely inconsistent.

Feb. 28th, 2008-

The Republican candidate has a difficult path to the White House

Mr McCain had no trouble wooing the media when his rivals were George Bush and Mitt Romney. A few hours shooting the breeze with the senator on the Straight Talk Express and most journalists are eating out of his hand….

…He is also a hawk in a country where hawkishness is normally considered a virtue. He was calling for “rogue state roll-back” in 1999 when Mr Bush was arguing for a more humble foreign policy (remember that?).

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10766687

Which is as close a criticism of MSM journalists and McCain's hawkishness as Glenn's compared to most other newspapers.

But then, March 6th 2008:

"... Mr McCain is betting that, as well as his superior policies, his more open style will win voters round. He takes questions from anyone and actually answers them. “Americans aren't interested in an election where they are just talked to and not listened to,” he maintains."

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10809120

And March 27th:

"He has happily picked fights with all and sundry, including his own party. For example, he was one of the leading critics of the Bush administration on torture. He also cares deeply and personally about national security. He risked political suicide by supporting the “surge” when his party looked as if it was willing to soften on the Iraq war."

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10873410

I don't think any MSM outlet is really sufficiently critical of McCain

Compared to the Western world, yes, that would seem a valid observation, especially economically speaking. Compared to the rest of the world, I still think they would be centrists.

McCain marks the absolute outer ideological boundary of American militarism, imperialism and war-making, particularly (though not only) in the Middle East.

As he certainly does. The problem is that MSM and the most of the rest of us define centrist differently. Ultra-conservatism and religious zealousness has become the norm that anyone who raises even a tactical objection to the Iraq war is a centrist relatively speaking. Actually, I think the reason people label McCain as a centrist has more to do with the fact that he's not as religious zealous as a Republican candidate is now required to be (not that anyone will admit that this is the true reason). It is actually Clinton and Obama who are really centrists if we compare them with other politicians in the rest of the world. What being a centrist constitutes needs to be better defined, or MSM will continue to get away with publishing this sort of nonsense.

Okay, I get that some readers find Baby Einstein to be convenient when they are busy. An effective alternative is a children's CD. They're cheap and they don't use graphics and motion to overstimulate children. They're also extremely interactive and convenient- you can stop the CD at any time you like. Kids love hearing music over and over again. Soon, they learn to sing along, which will simultaneously improve their verbal and musical skills.

Spot-on, Glenn, but I would have liked for you to discuss more about the moral implications of Mukasey's lies. It's truly disgusting to hear about Mukasey "crying" about the 9/11 victims to sell his lies about wiretapping. Simply disgusting. Of course, nobody cares because he's displaying "patriotism". In fact he's doing the opposite. Using such an emotional event to manipulate people who are not as informed as Glenn is about FISA and federal courts into supporting him is unspeakably immoral. He's essentially taking advantage of the victims' fates to push for telecom amnesty and protect the telecoms' corporate interests. Those poor souls must be rolling in their graves.

is almost as hard a task as it gets. I live in China, and here, supposedly "paid" workers are almost treated like slaves sometimes. The worst example is in the construction sector. Despite all the talk about how fast China is developing and building new infrastructure, the construction workers' incomes have not really changed. Many work under a contract of one year and do not get paid until the end of the year, which means that they won't get paid if they get sick or have to stop work in the middle of the year. In fact there have been some instances where construction workers have committed suicide because of this dire situation. That's a key issue in slavery: it may be relatively easier for the government to combat underground operations because they are not as organized, they practise blatant slavery, and are generally smaller. It becomes really hard if workers are hired by a company and then refused their salaries or humane treatment, because those companies seem legitimate.