I don't know about anyone else, but I think the next election will be really nasty, because the democrats are already hysterical.
This is a quote from Karl Zinsmeister (AEI):
"Most of the media embeds, however, are typical reporters--that is, left-wing, cynical, wise-guy, Ivy League types, many with a high prima donna quotient. There are numerous studies showing that the major media are now nearly as liberal, politically and culturally, as university professors. And those are the journalists I've been seeing in a month spent in Iraq and Kuwait with the 82nd Airborne.
...Unfortunately, I have not seen the reporters here make much effort to earn greater trust with the people doing the dirty work of fighting. Many of the journalists in this war theater are bursting with knee-jerk suspicions and antagonisms for the warriors all around them. This is aggravated by their tendency to club together, passing far too much of their desert sojourn gossiping with fellow reporters, snidely mocking military mores, chafing at the little disciplines necessary in the military's life-and-death work, banding off as a clique to watch DVDs on their computers in the evening, rolling their eyes at each other when ideas like honor, sacrifice, or duty enter the conversation."
I know many think the embedded reporters have had a universal change of heart, but I'm more cynical. I think they're after a story, and when they return, the experience will fade into a rather long, bad vacation. One or two exceptions, perhaps, but they've had a lifetime to build disdain for the military, and many old habits are hard to break.