Today's gaffe by Obama is rather small potatoes (though the quick airbrush work immediately afterwards by his campaign staff is noteworthy), but since the media reports all gaffes made by Republicans, and few from Democrats (expect for those Democrats who are the current year's apostates), it seems fair game to point it out, particularly in an election year.

Much like 2004, the starboard side of the Blogosphere is once again doing the work that was expected of old media, even if they never were as objective or fair to both sides as we imagined they were.

Update: Hugh Hewitt adds:

It is difficult not to conclude that Senator Obama has developed his reputation as a powerful orator and skilled politician in a protected media environment and in races against candidates that were deeply flawed.

The Sundries Shack adds, "After this campaign, I swear, I don’t want to hear one more person crack wise about Dan Quayle ever again."

In the interim, an article idea for someone with some time and a flatbed scanner: Last year, Noemie Emery wrote a terrific Weekly Standard article that opened up the memory hole and reminded us that despite the grudging admiration of the Gipper upon his passing, how much the vast majority of elite journalists hated the Gipper in the last couple of years of his administration. Similarly, I'm hoping that someone will go through the op-eds of 1988, and upload to the Internet a sampling of the the gallons of ink spilled back then over how inexperienced Quayle was, simply to be veep, even though at the time he had more years in the House and Senate than Obama has today.

Related: What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the fermentations of the Obama!