Contingency Nonawareness

And just for the record, Bill, Chris Matthews's grilling of that Obama supporter (yeah, the one where he kept dogging the guy to name just one legislative accomplishment of the senator) happened well before that "Saturday Night Live" skit (the one that parodied the medias "gentle" treatment of Barack). But even if there was, I'm saying, some sort of temporal logic to the point you're trying to make (the parody's shaming of the media caused them to be tougher on Obama) here, all you really have is a correlation, dude. You can't draw any sort of causal inference from it; two such disparately place social events/variables (statistics 101, my friend). I mean, you might as well attribute the beefed-up coverage of Obama....to the "surge", for Christ! This, I'm saying, in that, youza, word about town says that, yes, it's been very successful indeed!