Carrying O'Malley's Water

I love seeing what new and creative things the Sun will do to trying to prop up Mayor O'Malley's gubernatorial campaign.

On the front page of the Maryland section today was a story about Governor Ehrlich's campaign hiring Bo Harmon as their new Political Director. Harmon is a controversial choice thanks to his involvement in Sen. Saxby Chambliss' defeat of then Sen. Max Cleland in 2002, and the Sun reporter Andrew Green chose to point that out again and again and again. Combine that with repeated quotes from Democratic officials, and of course the obligatory John McCain reference, and you have a story designed to hit the Governor hard. They even let Maryland Democratic Party spokesman Derek Walker work in a Joe Steffen reference and unveil the new line about the "Tom DeLay-trained Bob Ehrlich." (Which contradicts their earlier Gingrich references).

While that was going on, the Sun also decided to bury this story about Doug Duncan winning the Firefighters endorsement on the back of the Maryland section.

The Sun should probably just be forthcoming with the people and go ahead and place the O'Malley campaign logo on the masthead so all readers understand their bias.