The liberal blogosphere used to scream bloody murder when Bush did flip side stuff like this. It think it's a silly game no matter who does it, and not only that, begets all kind of unintended bad results from blowback down the road from the dissed media people. Better off taking the guff from the opposing side from where you're in some control of it, then getting them resentful and with a more natural bent for payback.

Updated.

FDRDOG has it right - and using the term "kicked off" incorrectly implies that they were thrown off for something they wrote which is not the case.

Drudge yanked the link to the true story by
Ben Smith at Politico

but it wasn't salacious enough so he rewrote his own bit of BS and innuendo, all off the record and on the QT of course.

Maureen Dowd has already refuted one of Drudge's assertions.
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"Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge's report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News.

"We're trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some tough choices. but we are accommodating these folks in every way possible," he said.

The Post and the Morning News are both read primarily in states that aren't in play, but the Washington Times is read in Northern Virginia.

Burton said the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times had returned to the plane, and confirmed that Ebony and Jet magazines have seats on the plane. (The Tribune has had a reporter on the plane for most of the cycle, but recently added a photographer.)

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said in an email that, contrary to Drudge's suggestion, she won't be on Obama's plane."