John Cole's usually right on. But this time... not so much. About the contrast between the Democratic convention and the upcoming GOP convention, and how the media will treat it:

First, we know for a fact that the GOP, unlike the Democrats, will not be able to control themselves. They will launch attack after attack at Obama, and try to destroy him. It will fail, and they will get savaged in the media, who were all present at the DNC. The best thing about the babble all through the Democratic convention is that they will feel duty bound to do the same during the RNC, and they will be shocked and taken aback by the viciousness of the GOP. Bank on it.

Bank on this:

The media is going to be doing all their reporting with one hand, while the other tends to the giant boners they're going to have from listening to all the manly men tell their manly war stories. They're going to swoon at the manliness of McCain and his manly time in Hanoi 40 years ago; they'll gasp in ecstasy at the toughness of the GOP's drunken-rage approach to everything; they'll clutch their junk when Rudy tells his story of 9/11© again; they'll shudder and ache with anticipation when the manliest VP ever strides across the techno-fascist stage and promises to personally kill, skin, and eat each and every liberal who refuses to Support The Troops™. Those attacks on Obama aren't going to be called "vicious", they're going to be called "tough". The media will wonder how Obama can possibly even continue his campaign in the face of such a display of manly toughness.

It's gonna be a sad week, watching the media pleasure themselves while they mistake machismo for competence, but it won't be a surprise.