The satirical piece we published earlier this week titled Senator Obama and the Beanstalk was not well received by a McCain supporter because apparently we went too far with the satire and predicted we would "not win any arguments employing such rhetoric"

Our response was that our motivation was not win an argument, as much as it was to illustrate what an Obama presidency might look like.

We then asked:   how much coverage has mainstream media dedicated to the Kuntar as Hero-or-Villain issue we explored on the piece, for example? This is the same media traveling with the Senator on his visit to the Middle East and Europe. Will you be supporting their propaganda?

A CNN/Time piece dated April 9, 2008 by Joel Klein, mocks Senator Joseph Lieberman for being a provocateur in the semiannual Petraeus-Crocker hearings staged by the U.S. Senate, and uses the Senator chastising of unnamed colleagues for having a "hear no progress ... see no progress ... speak no progress attitude about the war in Iraq" as an example.  The headline on the Time/CNN piece?  Petraeus Meets His Match - praising senator Obama for allegedly being on par with General Petraeus
 
As if to prove that General Petraeus is not a match, shortly after  Senator Obama met with General Petraeus, earlier this week, the Senator made it clear that the General is in no position to see the big picture.

In fact, to blunt the media's love affair with Senator Obama, the McCain campaign produced a piece titled the Media's Love Affair with Obama, saying in part:

"It's pretty obvious that the media has a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama. Some may even say it's a love affair. We want you to be the judge. We've compiled two videos of the more outrageous moments of this not so secret love affair. Follow this link to watch the two videos and vote on which one you think is better. Your vote will determine which video we put on the air.

The media is in love with Barack Obama. If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny."

Today marked the culmination of Sentor Obama's trip covered by the hosts of the major networks, including one of the Myrna Blyth's original  Spin Sisters- How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America and European's did buy what the Senator is selling!

The question for the rest of us seems to be:  Urop Us, Oh Bum Us, or Petraeus?