There is a pattern here, which we observe in the case of the press treatment of Obama, the Tea Party, and the Catholic Church. In all three cases the leftwing propaganda is self-defeating. They more they lionize Obama and calumniate the Tea Party and the conservative Catholics, the worse Obama does and the better the conservatives do.
This writer points out that the refutation of the very arguments the left uses is in the article itself. The irony just seems to go over so many heads.