The editorials of St. Petersburg Times is generally known  as being "very liberal" by those on the right, and generally progressive yet sometimes overly pro-business by those who lean leftward.

In that context, it was very surprising two of its leading editors/columnists recently published screeds that follow the PLAN.

"Obama, you're not the president yet" by Philip Gailey

Obama won't officially claim the Democratic nomination until Aug. 28, and when he does, the event will take place in a Denver football stadium that can hold up to 75,000 cheering fans. Obama apparently is too big a star for an ordinary convention hall.
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Maybe a Bible verse is in order here. The book of Proverbs warns us: "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

The op-ed piece cites a large portion of Dana Milbank's work which provides the basis for many cheap shots.

And there was this other column which conforms to the PLAN:

Don't dare disagree with Obama by Bill Maxwell

Be forewarned: If you say, sing, write, draw, paint or sculpt anything unflattering about Obama, expect the Spanish Inquisition. The salvational fervor and unfiltered euphoria surrounding the man have cast a halo around his head. A halo, as you know, suggests something otherworldly.
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The hypersensitivity coming from Obama and his minions is dangerous.]

There's more, but you get the picture.  FWIW, Bill Maxwell is African-American.  

There's something about Obama which rouses an irrational negative passion, even among those one might otherwise expect to be rational.  Fundamentally, I think these people don't believe that Obama is real; to the contrary, it is because he is very real that I support him--I think he's at his best when speaking candidly in interviews, and when dealing with disruptions like he's experienced recently in town halls.  

I don't believe there is an antidote for the PLAN; people like Gailey and Maxwell apparently have their preset filters (a.k.a. biases, but not necessarily racial*) and only when Obama starts to deliver some results might they begin to cut him some slack.

* My sense is that the paper was pro-Hillary during the primaries--Maxwell definitely was--, and may still bear grudges.