Unbiased Biased Media 2009 Lists (Washington Post; CNN; more to come)

CNN

Worst lack of awesomeness: the battle over health care reform.

Worst cheap shot: Rep. Joe Wilson’s "You lie!"

Best political theater: town hall meetings "where insults were traded like baseball cards."

Best bus tour: big crowds at Tea Parties.

Best laugh: for President Obama, who still has a health bill on the table.

Best pick by the president: Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

Worst photo-op: the party-crashing Salahis.

Best power couple: Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Worst retreat: Sarah Palin resigned as Governor.

Best counterattack: Palin’s best-selling book. "Facts? Who needs them?"

Worst almost in-law: Levi Johnston.

Worst bad girl: Meghan McCain.

Best family picture; the Obamas.

WaPo

Everyone says this decade was the decade from hell, the lost decade [read: Bush], but also the decade of tantalizing evolution [read: Obama]. The capital was the crucible for this paradox. Living the Aughts in the District was like magic realism, like heightened reality, a fever dream the rest of the world was having. The plane that plowed into the Pentagon carried some of the area's brightest and incinerated some of its bravest, sending our neighbors into battle. In this decade, we built a grand memorial to the Greatest Generation but didn't properly care for the current generation at Walter Reed. We cheered the inauguration of a black man as leader of the free world, even as the capital's HIV rates hovered higher than West Africa's.