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New York Post -- The cartoon depicting a dead chimp as the author of the Obama-championed economic stimulus bill was the tip of a huge trend at the newspaper, which delights in cheap shots and controversial covers. How could any competent editor at a New York newspaper publish a cartoon that touched on police killing, chimps presented as humans, an Obama-supported piece of legislation and a horrific mauling of a woman by a chimp in one awful image and not expect an outcry?

Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes Interview with Obama -- As illuminating as some of Kroft's interviews with the president and his staff have been, his most recent interview in March -- in which the most notable exchange involved Kroft asking if Obama was punch drunk for chuckling ruefully about the auto bailout -- was disappointing. As journalists everywhere were trying to figure out what the president and his administration may have known about the massively unpopular bonuses for AIG executives, Kroft didn't ask those questions of the president, failing to probe whether the administration's economic officials are too close to the industries they're bailing out. 

Dick Cheney/Karl Rove/New Gingrich -- Tapped by a host of news outlets as expert commentators, these three in particular have made lots of noise criticizing Obama for actions similar to moves they made while in power. Cheney criticized Obama for increasing the country's deficit without noting that his own administration created huge hikes in the federal deficit, while Rove criticized the administration for its contact with Democratic-friendly activist groups after leaving an administration which politicized everything from the U.S. Attorney's office to charity support.