A very good article by Jon Friedman at Marketwatch points out that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) certainly has nothing to complain about his treatment by the media, even though the Senator and presidential candidate has seen fit to do exactly that. Friedman writes, It seems that the Illinois Democrat has a problem, though. Politico.com, the impressive new political-news site, ran this headline Feb. 12: "Obama Casts Peevish Eye on National Media." The story behind the story is this, as Friedman notes: Ben Smith’s story on the Politico site began this way: Obama "used his first news conference after announcing his run for president to accuse the media of ignoring his substantive record and falsely depicting him as a lightweight."   It quoted Obama as saying: "The problem is that that’s not what you guys have been reporting on. You’ve been reporting on how I look in a swimsuit." Friedman correctly observes that this seems a strange complaint from a man who has received such fawning, unconditional admiration from the mainstream U.S. media:  Taken at face value, this astounds me. I can’t remember the last time journalists gave a White House candidate such a supersonic push to enable him or her

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