The other day I mentioned that three major league media players here were warning Republican conservatives to stay away from ultra-conservatives whom they described as Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart. It prompted me to ask these media types if they could ever name ultra-liberals.

There’s been no response, of course, because to them…most reportorial denizens in Illinois…there is no such thing as an ultra-liberal. But they ought to pay attention to Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary who just called out a number of them who are dissatisfied with the president despite his passing…over my objection, of course…nationalized health care, a massive stimulus which hasn’t worked to cut unemployment which is 9 million jobless more than when Obama took office…and new financial regulation.

Gibbs blasted those ultra-liberals for being dissatisfied, believing Obama hasn’t spent enough…saying perhaps they should be drug-tested. The hive of ultra-liberals consist of those who write for the Daily Kos. Strange that none of the media moguls I mentioned have seen fit to identify these ultra-liberals.

The other day Laura Ingraham interviewed a media type who at least admitted the error of his publication’s non-objective love affair with Obama…Howard Fineman of Newsweek.. Now that Obama’s economic plan has not worked, there’s some serious reappraising going on. Fineman smiled and pleaded nolo contender—saying yes indeed it was slanted because the media fell in love with the candidate: bad thing to do.

Which leads me to wonder if other reporters…especially in Illinois…will have the guts to admit the same thing: Lynn Sweet, the cosmetician for Obama and family…and Mike Flannery, then with CBS-2 now with Fox Chicago. He wrote a love note to Obama in a commercial magazine sent out by The New York Times…this before The Messiah was inaugurated…begging for an ornament from the White House Christmas tree. After writing that, no self-respecting editor should have allowed him to cover Obama or national politics as Flannery was obviously deeply in love and swayed. Can you imagine what would happen to a Chicago reporter if he/she had penned the same gushy sophistry to George W. Bush?

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Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Chicago Daily Observer