It's worth noting when someone as distinguished as actor Jon Voight directly warned media Saturday to quit lying in this election, if only for the sake of democracy. But lying is exactly what's been stepped up.

The latest manifestation of media bias was a bizarre Associated Press "analysis" claiming racism in Sarah Palin's warning over the weekend about Barack Obama's long association with Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground terror organization.

AP reporter Douglass K. Daniels claimed that Palin's questioning of Obama's association with the white radical child of privilege was "racially tinged." The verbal stink bomb keyed off Palin's statement that Obama "is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. We see it as a force of good in this world." To Daniels, this was racist.

It was the latest instance of increasingly undisguised media efforts to act as an unofficial branch of the Obama campaign.

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