At Pajamas HQ, Hillary supporter Taylor Marsh performs one of the many postmortems sure to be published in the coming days on her candidate's efforts:

What if “Fighting Hillary” of the last few months had shown up on day one, replacing “inevitable Hillary”?

What if Robin Givhan’s cleavage column had never been written? That’s where it began for me. It was obvious that Hillary was about to get dissected on terms that her male counterparts were not. Happening simultaneously was the back and forth between Clinton and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman with the added gift of him being a former Cheney aide. When she dared to ask if they’d prepared a plan for redeployment, she got back a letter from Edelman stating “premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda.” Secretary Gates stepped in to do damage control, because a senator on the Armed Services Committee asking questions about redeployment plans, even if a woman, isn’t exactly asking for a recipe.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, in an interview with Bill Moyers, called the anti-Clinton media out. There was “the cackle” coverage: “Hens cackle. So do witches.” Pimpgate. The Clinton “nutcracker” sold in CNBC stores in airports. With the only left-leaning prime time news show host Keith Olbermann reduced to becoming the quintessential anti-Edward R. Murrow and a parody of himself as he degenerated into an unhinged special comment screamer. The big blogs got caught up in it and piled on too. Even David Gregory, one of the finest reporters around, reduced himself to doing a piece on his MSNBC show after Obama clinched the nomination that focused on Clinton’s “political obituary.” The first viable female candidate for president, who got more votes than anyone in Democratic Party primary history, was dissected, eviscerated, and humiliated for political sport, then pronounced dead.

Sucks, huh? But that's how Republican presidential candidates have been treated by the TV networks since at least the days of Nixon. Several of them have managed to rise above it since, but it stands out a lot more when the media turns on someone who was once one of their own before This Year's Model arrived in the showrooms.

(Via Instapundit.com)

Update In his "Happy Warrior" column on the backpage of the May 30th National Review (subscription required, but will probably be availably soon for free on Mark's Website), Mark Steyn also notes:

As Lanny Davis conceded to Laura Ingraham re the media’s Obama swoon, she now knows what it feels like to be a Republican.

Meanwhile, Larry Johnson feverishly awaits The Doomsday Machine--I'm sure it's being assembled, deep underground in this long secluded vault.