NO PRESS BIAS HERE; JUST MOVE ALONG - AT 7:11 P.M. ET:  You don't think there's press bias?  Just read this:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's push to reset U.S.-Russian relations took a huge stride when he signaled the Kremlin he might forgo an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe if Moscow uses its clout with a troublesome Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

The back-channel diplomatic gambit was one of the few tools Obama had for unknotting the stalemated relationship -- one that suffered under former Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin.

Details of the Obama proposal, a letter responding to one from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, have not been disclosed, but the U.S. president has clearly enticed the Kremlin into a dialogue that could pay significant benefits to both sides.

COMMENT:  Has clearly enticed the Kremlin?  Really?  Where is the evidence of that?  In fact, the Kremlin today ridiculed the president's advance.  And, of course, the writer must get in the obligatory dig at former President Bush. 

March 3, 2009.