Thus far, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are getting by with a little help from their friends in the press.

Are you ready for LaRue's evidence? Because I'm not going to wait for you. I'm kind of in a hurry here:

When Republican Mike Huckabee appeared to make a negative comment about Mormonism to a New York Times reporter, the media pounced on the former Baptist preacher. Huckabee apologized, and rightly so.

... which is to say that Mike Huckabee made a negative comment about his opponent's religion to a reporter, and then the reporter, ahem, reported it. Then some other people talked about it - for instance, a lot of Republicans who just plain don't like Huckabee. Then Huckabee apologized, and the reporters reported it, and other people talked about that. One could be forgiven for wondering who it was that LaRue believes to have acted improperly here, other than poor ol' Huckabee. Maybe no one, as LaRue appears to be using this incident as some sort of contrast:

In contrast, Obama accused Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign of circulating Internet rumors that he's a Muslim, and Team Hillary took the media hit.

In fact, Obama did no such thing, and though this is simply my opinion, I believe that the fact that Obama never accused the Clinton campaign of spreading those rumors somewhat undercuts LaRue's Magical Fantasy Argument that he did indeed do such a thing. Again, that's just me. It is true, however, that many others did accuse the Clinton campaign of spreading those rumors, and that, in fact, two low-level Clinton campaign workers were found to have done so and were asked to resign. Now, the fact that at least two Clinton staffers were found to have been forwarding bigoted, inaccurate e-mails about Obama  may very well explain why it was that "Team Hillary took the media hit." I mean, who else would take the "media hit?" The Obama campaign? Obama himself, who had the bad manners of, uh, not doing anything?

The next bit of evidence that LaRue provides for us has something to do with Clinton being knocked by the media for having played the gender card. LaRue compares this to a series of incidents in which the Clintons make race-based arguments against taking Obama's win in South Carolina too seriously, and then relates to us an occasion in which Obama supporter Ted Kennedy