Mark Finkelstein at NB has a great video clip from Morning Joe on MSNBC where Mika Brezezinski is accused via a viewer email of being in the bag for Barack Obama.

Brezezinski tries to laugh it off with some lame excuse about her brother working for McCain (no mention of her father's role in the Obama campaign) but Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Mike Barnicle (Obamamaniacs all) rise to her defense.

Finkelstein is a bit bent out of shape because Barnicle and Capehart ridicule bloggers; I'm more interested to listen to the "logic" of why reporting on Obama's Auschwitz gaffe is somehow silly but reporting on say McCain's Sunni-Shia gaffe or on Hillary's RFK gaffe (if you can even call it that) makes perfect sense. Capehart grandly declares "someone" has to step in and say enough is enough. Apparently that means the self-appointed protectors of freedom - Barnicle and Capehart. No explanation of why the time to recognize that candidates make gaffes because they are tired is only when its Obama making the gaffes. Also left out is that the "gaffe" Obama made might not be a "gaffe" but a function of the fact that Obama LIED about his "uncle" living in the attic for six months because he liberated concentration camps. If it had been Hillary Landing Under Fire in the Balkans" Clinton you know the MSM would be dragging through the Obama family war records to show Obama lied. But its Obama and this is MSNBC so special handling is required.

ON A RELATED NOTE: Mika's Obama Supporting Dad Accuses Jews of McCarthyism