Newsbusters' idea of bias: Asking McCain, who promised to work with Obama, when he will

You might think that asking Sen. John McCain, who has long cultivated his reputation for bipartisanship, when he'll actually work with President Obama would be one of the less controversial things a reporter could do. But to the Right's premiere media-criticism outfit, it's a sign of bias:

Here's the question from Stephanopoulos' that upset Shepherd so much:

Let's talk about bipartisanship a little, because, just about a year ago that you and President Obama, then-President-elect Obama met in Chicago and made this pledge to work together in this first year of his presidency. Yet on issue after issue after issue, you have all been at odds. I know that you think that President Obama bears the majority of the blame for that, but is there anything more you could have done? And can you name an issue next year where you're going to be joined at the hip with President Obama?"

If anything, Stephanopoulos was overly kind to McCain, stipulating to McCain's claim that Obama “bears the majority of the blame” for the lack of bipartisanship. In any case, this is what the Right means when they complain about “liberal bias”: asking a Republican who has spent years portraying himself as the paragon of bipartisanship to name an issue on which he'll work with the Democratic president.