PRESS BIAS?  WHAT PRESS BIAS? - AT 2:19 P.M. ET:  The New York Times informs us of President Obama's graduation appearance at the Naval Academy today:

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Nobody protested President Obama’s commencement address Friday morning at the United States Naval Academy. Nobody told Mr. Obama he was undeserving of an honorary degree. Instead, under a nearly cloudless sky, Mr. Obama was treated to a 21-gun salute, a Blue Angels flyover — and a respite from graduation controversy.

It was Mr. Obama’s first commencement speech as president to graduates of a military academy — a rite of passage for every commander-in-chief — and he used it to reiterate the message he offered Thursday at the National Archives in Washington, that in an age of terrorism, he can both protect Americans from attack and uphold fundamental American values.

COMMENT:  Yeah, not like those pesky, committed Catholics at Notre Dame.  Who were those people? 

Oh, memo to The Times:  Did the reporter who wrote this story, Cheryl Gay Stolberg, actually think that cadets would demonstrate against the president at a service academy?  They don't do that in the military.

And the president always gets a 21-gun salute.

And the Blue Angels normally appear at Naval Academy graduations, president or no.

And he didn't bring the cloudless sky.

There is no press bias here.

May 22, 2009