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Because it's not news! Everybody already knows how selfish he is!

But yeah, the media all roll over for presidents they perceive to be popular. They never pointed out, for example, how preposterous most of Reagan's ad libs were, all that "trees cause pollution" nonsense.

It's not a purely partisan thing; they did it for JFK too, back in the day (mainly by covering up a private life that made Bill Clinton look like a monk). And I don't think they protected Bush41 much; we all saw him vomiting on the Japanese prime minister. (And Nixon-- the reason the Watergate story had legs was, journalists despised him. If only they could work up an equivalent antipathy to Smirky...)