Fading Love Affair: How the Media Will Maul Obama

[Commentary] There are generally just two stages of media euphoria: on and off. It's been conventional wisdom for at least a year now that the media is "in the tank for Obama." But all political infatuations must come to an end -- and already you can begin to see the media straining mightily to assert its "objectivity" regarding our new POTUS. For starters: 1) Just say Trouble -- with a capital T -- Even minor wrinkles can be construed as "trouble." And everybody knows that anybody experiencing "trouble" is "troubled." 2) The rule of twos Two bits of trouble in a row -- preferably within the same news cycle? 3) Some clever blogger will deconstruct a YouTube video of an uncharacteristically stuttery or at-a-loss-for-words Obama (perhaps at a news conference) and point out that he's not really that eloquent. 4) Credit Maureen Dowd for advancing the notion that Obama's post-partisan approach and tendency to see nuance where George Bush saw black and white will spell ... trouble.