Please, consider this single point.

The media is NOT on our side.

I'm sorry to hammer on this, but it's important that everyone "gets it" before the next news cycle. Because it will be a doozy.

Just because they tell you Obama is a media darling, they are NOT all of a sudden on our side. It's the same media they've told you for years is "liberal." We didn't believe it during the last administration, but all of a sudden we're buying it now?

In the next news cycle, they will offer a thousand stories on politics, the wars, the economy. All of them will slant to do one of two things: divide the left and encourage the right.

In the last 24 hours we've seen misleading headlines and buried ledes designed to agitate the left. Misrepresentations of events we all witnessed and "errors" of omission crafted to embolden the right.

Please, please, please. Look at these stories through that prism. This is the same media who helped lie us into at least one war, who told us the bubble would never burst, and that any number of people would be in the White House besides the guy who's sitting in the chair at the moment.

This is the same media who a year ago we knew couldn't be trusted to report accurately on the color of the sky if it somehow helped progressives. But now we jump at every "OMG teh Democrats are actually secret fascist warmongerers!!11!" story they throw out there.

We are in a lull at the moment. Don't be fooled. This eye of the storm was brought on by a weekend, nothing else. We slap one another's backs, they are ready to twist reality anew on Monday.

Be ready.