Blaming the media is what grown ups do when the dog ate their home work. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is no different.

Instead of delivering closing remarks at a panel where Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Bob Schieffer of CBS News and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News agreed that election coverage has been pretty fair and tailored around important issues, Rendell said:

“Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing.”

While MSNBC tended to be more like an official network of the Obama campaign than not, suggesting Obama got a free pass—as Rendell did—does nobody any good.

It’s well documented why Sen. Hillary Clinton lost the nomination: The toxic combination of dysfunctional campaign rivalries and a former President-husband who doesn’t understand the Internet records e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Blaming the media is useless because it doesn’t hold anyone responsible. It’s like punching water.

Leadership demands responsibility. Rendell and folks like him would do well to remember who is responsible and who is not.

Tags: bias, ed rendell, mainstream media