Yes, I've noticed this is a subtext of the DNC message this week. As I turned on the MTP interview, I caught the local news blurb starting off, and I QUOTE: "Not everyone was happy to see Vice President Dick Cheney visit St. Louis last night, as he was greeted by a group of loud protesters."
The local news is doing the same thing as they did last campaign, the story is never about the visit, its about the gang of union protesters that Dick Gephardt calls out.
Unthinking adherence to what he's been programmed to say imo.