I don't often link to the o-blog these days, but this entry excerpting a Salon article should be passed around to everyone and anyone.

Watching the striking similarities between the way the D.C. press is covering Dean and how it treated Gore, and contrasting it with the way it has treated President Bush, it's becoming harder to avoid the obvious conclusion: that Democratic presidential front-runners and nominees are held to a higher, tougher standard by the Washington press corps....

Or, in the words of Chuck D: don't believe the hype.