If Obama confused Sunni al Qaeda operatives with Iraqi Shiite extremists, not once but several times before he had to be corrected in public, then you can bet that this would be fairly big news–Obama the inexperienced foreign-policy lightweight doesn’t even know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites!

Of course, it wasn’t Obama–it was McCain, the guy who is supposed to be an expert on the subject, someone who is supposed to have the facts down cold on this. McCain making this mistake repeatedly should be a much bigger story… and yet, the media is hardly covering it. Surprise!

And in a Liberal Media™ double-whammy, not only are they not reporting much on this, but when they do report on it, they use this kind of headline:

Democrats jump on McCain’s Iran-Qaeda gaffe

As I have pointed out several times before, when Republicans attack Democrats for having made a mistake, the headlines focus on the mistake; but when Republicans make a mistake, the headlines emphasize how the Democrats are attacking them, as if the mistake is not worthy of mention by itself, giving the impression that the attack is political opportunism.

In just the past few weeks, we’ve learned that McCain is in violation of campaign finance laws according to the Republican head of the FCC; that despite the press touting his campaign finance reform history McCain surrounds himself with lobbyists and is proven to have interceded on their behalf on several occasions; and that despite the press touting his foreign policy experience, he repeatedly confuses even the most basic elements of the Iraqi situation. None of this is news to them. But if Obama’s pastor once said “God damn America,” then it gets played endlessly for days.

Sometimes you just wish that this damned Liberal Media™ would let up and give McCain a break!