Sen. Barack Obama has been granted an good amount of leniency from most of the mainstream media, and one has to wonder, why? Obama hasn’t had a press conference in over ten days. In the earlier months of the year, the press lashed out at Sen. Hillary Clinton for not being friendly and not talking to them. Obama is now doing the same, and yet he still has an easy pass, and is allowed to side step issues. Neither of the candidates are perfect but, maybe someone should tell that to the press corp.

This from Talk Left via Instapundit

Barack Obama got cranky with a reporter today when asked a question at a diner about Jimmy Carter meeting with Hamas.

As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry. “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at the Glider Diner.

What’s the big deal? Why is this news? Because, as Jay Newton-Small at Time’s Swampland explains, Obama hasn’t given a press conference in 10 days and the reporters had no other opportunity to ask him.

Journalists in general don’t relish asking politicians questions in awkward situations, like on a golf course or over a waffle. But sometimes our hands are forced: Obama hasn’t given a press conference in 10 days and the questions, some of them — like Hamas — rather important, are starting to build up. If he wins the nomination he’ll be running again John McCain, whose philosophy is to give the press total access to the point of saturation; Obama might consider holding avails with a little more regularity. Then, maybe, reporters would let him to eat in peace.

Like Kevin Drum says, this is baffling.

Obama just doesn’t give the press much access, sometimes shutting them down for weeks at a time. Why? Does this make sense to anyone else as a campaign strategy? I’m baffled by it.

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