From an article about the Obama/Gates kerfuffle [emphasis added]:

Police organizations attacked the president's willingness to criticize a police officer without knowing all the facts, Republicans dusted off law-and-order attacks largely absent from the presidential campaign and everyone from comedian Bill Cosby to the Irish-American media piled on.

First, Politico didn't bother to point to any proof that the media “piled on.” I know conservatives and right-wing bloggers teed off on Obama. And reporters have covered the story (too) extensively with a mostly straight news approach. But I haven't seen any kind of wide-scale “pile-on.” Not in comparison to say, the Lou Dobbs pile-on that unfolded this week.

But more importantly, the media in this country is now “Irish-American”? What is this, 1942 at the New York Daily Mirror? I mean gimme a break with these sweeping, and shallow, generalizations.

When I read passages like that from Politico I just always wonder, does anybody edit this stuff?