Camp Hillary has been complaining about unfair press coverage. Of course, it's hard to write nice things about someone who has lost the last 11 primaries and caucuses, often by very large margins, and who has not had a delegate lead at any point in the democratic nomination race thus far. It's been a long race this time 'round, and she enjoyed automatic front runner status for about a year based on nothing more than name recognition.  Now that the facts tell a different story, well...

The press has basically been carrying Hillary since Super Tuesday -- any other candidate losing so many events in a row would have been laughed off the stage by now -- and Camp Hillary is going to complain about coverage?

Camp Hillary is obviously working the refs -- whilst they concurrently sow a 1000 seeds of doubt in 100 different directions. "Obama is definitely not a Muslim, as far as I know," with a wink Hillary sayeth.

If Hillary wins anything today in mini-Super Tuesday (even +5 delegates, still leaving her way behind), the press will carry her futile campaign another 7 painful weeks until PA. That's gonna hurt... me, Dems in November, and the nation itself in the end. She'll get uglier and uglier as her campaign just runs on the free ride the media gives her and her negative campaign.

The press will continue to give her a free ride as if she is owed something that no other candidate in either party has been. Bill might owe her. Many party insiders might. But we don't, democrats don't, and neither does the press.

She deserves decency, as any candidate does, as well as the supporters of any campaign do, but if she does not stomp Obama tonight in Texas and Ohio and seriously pull dozens of new delegates to her camp, the press needs to call a spade a spade and say she's done, not enable another 7 weeks of ugly campaigning from a guaranteed nomination loser (not to mention her GE weaknesses such as half the country insisting they would never vote for her).

Perhaps, though, that is the real key to understanding her working the refs strategy. It is not as much intended to puff up friendly coverage for herself, or negative stories on Obama per se, as it is to allow her to carry on as if the nomination is somehow actually achievable for her, to have the press ignore the obvious reality -- to not write that the emperor has no clothes -- all in the slim hopes that Obama somehow steps on own his dick in a big way before the convention.