I appreciate your acknowledgment of how wrong-headed those example comments (Maddow's re: RFK) are.

Who are your candidates? Lanny Davis? Mark Penn? Taylor Marhs? Who should get the slot instead?

Um, no. Why does being bothered by blatant fabrications about Hillary Clinton mean that I demand the media be comprised of pro-Hillary partisans? I'd like the media to be honest and fair, and it's why I was scandalized when large parts of the left blogosphere turned a blind eye (and frequently cheered [and, no, that doesn't mean *you*]) when the media viciously lied about one centrist Democrat, while it spun in leg-tingling favor of another.

Two of my favorite bloggers (sorry, I'm a little short on respected TV figures right now) throughout the campaign were Avedon Carol and Arthur Silber (wherever he may be now), both of whom seriously dislike the Clintons. But they never wrote a word that looked to me to be dishonest.

Maddow's credibility (and/or insight) came into question (or should have) when she propagated blatantly false narratives. I appreciate that she's not a rightwinger at heart, but I have no appetite for watching or listening to her when I've seen her cut corners on the truth and sit idly by while Olbermann went McCarthyesque in his Hillary witch-hunt and joined the fun in her own segments.

Have you watched Olbermann's report on RFK-gate?

http://www.correntewire.com/everything_old_is_new_again_0

It's truly remarkable, a real contender for the 10 most scurrilous minutes of news journalism of my lifetime. That report (which, disturbingly, the Obama camp found worthy enough to send to the entire Beltway media pool) rivals anything I've ever seen from Fox News for sheer blind, dishonest, firebreathing hate.

Maddow was an active contributor to msnbc's slanted coverage of the campaign, scoring similar points if with a little less bravado than some of her colleagues.

None of this is to dismiss your thesis here, that there are double-standards in place, where only one political wing is allowed to have representation on the airwaves.

I've just lost enthusiasm for Ms. Maddow, because she blissfully played along with another double-standard.