Journalist Drops Pretense, Joins Obama Campaign

A well-known political journalist has left her job in the media and joined the Obama campaign. At least there's no more pretense about objectivity:

It's a home run of a data point for anyone who thinks the press is in the tank for Obama. Ambinder reports:

Linda Douglass, an award-winning television and print journalist who currently serves as a contributing editor to National Journal, will join Barack Obama's presidential campaign as a senior strategist and as a senior campaign spokesperson on the roadshow, a newly created position.

The Clinton campaign -- and Fox News -- is going to have a field day with this.

But one of the best arrows in the Republican quiver has been National Journal's rating of Obama as the most liberal senator -- the Obama campaign has tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to bat down that moniker by explaining why the measurement was flawed. Now, they'll have someone from National Journal to make the case.

Douglass interviewed Obama Campaign Manager Plouffe for National Journal On-Air in late April after the Pennsylvania primary.

I wish the rest of them would just go ahead and join the campaign so we can all quit pretending they're not totally in the tank for the Democrats.