I’ve been living for some time now. And at no other time have I ever seen the media in most every form as clearly and obviously biased against one political party as now. And then take umbrage that anyone would particularly notice.

As the most recent example, the moderator for Thursday’s debate between Biden and Palin is:

The moderator of Thursday’s vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office that aims to “shed new light” on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other “emerging young African American politicians” who are “forging a bold new path to political power.

Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program “Washington Week” is promoting “The Breakthrough,” in which she argues the “black political structure” of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the struggles over racial equality.

Do the two words “fox” and “henhouse” somehow magically spring to mind?

NBC and Katie Couric specifically don’t mind the ratings bump they recently received from the Palin interview, but they intensely dislike their subject:

Sean McManus, the president of CBS News, extolled Ms. Couric’s interviewing skills, but he acknowledged that Ms. Palin had something to do with the attention. “We benefited from having an interview subject that most of the American public wants to see,” Mr. McManus said. “So the fact is this was a great opportunity, but you have to be able to take advantage of that opportunity, and we did.”

I could go on, but why? They still cannot comprehend the reason for their diminishing ratings on every level, TV, newspapers, magazines.

I have never before been witness to such media hatred, condonation of hatred from the Left and solicitation of hatred — all pointed against Conservatives and the GOP.

This hatred is absolutely consuming them — my local newspaper The Sacramento Bee being a perfect example: hundreds of firings and layoffs, a physically smaller newspaper.

And they still refuse to understand the reasons.

— “boo-fucking-hoo.”

You mean to intimate there might be actual consequences to one’s inane machinations in this world? Perish the thought!

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles photographer Jill Greenberg has shut down her studio and hired personal security after posting manipulated images of the Republican presidential candidate John McCain on the Internet, reports Artnet.

Please read the entire self-serving article here, then prepare to disseminate copious tears and much snot.

Yeah, right.

And so he did, amongst close friends and family on Friday, September 26th, at age 83 following a long bout with lung cancer.

As recently as June 11th of this year, FoxNews learned that Newman decided to make a massive final donation. Philanthropy.com reports:

The actor Paul Newman has donated his ownership in Newman’s Own, a food company, to his foundation — a gift valued at $120-million, reports Fox News.

The Newman’s Own Foundation received the donation over 2005 and 2006, Fox News reports. The announcement comes amid reports that Mr. Newman is ailing from cancer, which the actor has not confirmed or denied.

On August 8th, pushed in a wheelchair from a last chemotherapy visit, Newman stated to friends and family that he simply wished to die at home.

I would wish nothing more than that myself.

The finest tribute to Paul Newman that I could find was delivered in a stellar fashion by Roger Ebert. Please go here to read Ebert’s full and true memorium.

Newman’s last major film was “The Road To Perdition” shot in 2002 and starring Tom Hanks. His actual last on-screen captured work was in the HBO series “Empire Falls,” 2005. He was, of course, stellar.

Paul Newman officially retired in 2007, telling ABC: “You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that’s pretty much a closed book for me.”

My two personal favorite Newman films? Of course, 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” — but also his little-known “The Life And Times of Judge Roy Bean” (Stacy Keach being wonderful as Bad Bob!) from 1972, directed by John Huston, with a script written by the incredible John Milius (“Dirty Harry“, “Apocalypse Now“, “Dillinger“, “The Wind And The Lion.”).

Actor, racer, philanthropist, businessman with “Newman’s Own” — where do I start and where do I end about this man? He truly fits into the very select category of Hollywood Legend. True. Humble. Honest. Considerate. Human. Human.

I can only remotely hope that I end where Mr. Paul Newman ended. At home. With those closest to me. In comforting surroundings, familiar surroundings, away from the white, the garish, the startling, the chromed, the shared, the sterile.

Perhaps he did as I would wish, to be on the couch next to my large window, looking up at the sky, watching the surrounding pines, their tips bending so slightly in the caught breeze.

Perhaps he watched, out his own window, the clouds scudding by, white and gray and various shades, blue and its variants, noted the passage of clock ticks, heard the chatter of squirrels, the calls of birds and then, so satisfied, he knew now he could then pass with ease. Perhaps even better, a palm on his forehead, a hand squeezing his own.

Oh, so many journeys yet to go.

WASHINGTON – Two liberal political action committees are making an issue of John McCain’s past bouts with skin cancer in a television commercial that features his facial scar and demands that the Republican presidential nominee release his medical records to the public.

How low can you get? Apparently, much lower. And yet:

In May (of 2008), McCain made 1,173 pages of medical documents available to a small group of reporters to examine for several hours. His campaign did not release the documents and other reporters were not allowed to make copies.

On the other hand:

Obama has not released his medical records. His campaign instead released a one-page letter in May from his longtime physician, Chicago internist Dr. David L. Scheiner, that summarized 21 years of medical records and described Obama’s health as excellent.

Why wouldn’t that work, equally, for McCain?

The reason for this ad? Check it out:

Medress defended the ad. “John McCain won’t let anyone look at his records in a full and open fashion…Who knows if there is going to be a recurrence of cancer,” Medress said.

My summation? The Left are even MORE concerned that a young Sarah Palin could possibly be NEXT IN LINE for POTUS.

File this under the PSH tab, if you will.