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September 15, 2008
New York Times Flushes Last Remnants of Credibility in Anti-Palin Attack
Power Line summarizes a cartoonishly biased major hit piece that appeared this weekend in the quasi-official organ of the Democrat Party's left wing, the New York Times:
Remarkably enough, the reporters/Obama campaign staff couldn't find room for a single good word about Governor Palin. Thus, while they acknowledge that Palin currently has an approval rating of 80% (86%, actually), making her perhaps the most popular politician in the country, the reader is left to puzzle as to what her constituents could possibly like about her.
Every person who engages in public life has opponents and enemies, and if you talk exclusively to those people, and write an article solely from their perspective, you can easily make the subject look bad. (Imagine, say, an article on Abraham Lincoln that consisted entirely of quotes from Copperhead Democrats.) If the Times wanted to test that proposition, they could send a team of reporters to Chicago to search out and interview people who don't like Barack Obama. Somehow, though, I don't think that's on their agenda.
The preposterous but terrifying Obama campaign isn't the only casualty of Sarah Palin's remarkable rise to prominence. Due to the vociferous and wildly unfair nature of its attack on her, the media's partisan nature has been revealed in all its vindictive hideousness to every informed member of the public.
On tips from V the K and Rob Banks.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 15, 2008 9:16 AM
Comments
In a way, I am hoping this is the "perfect storm" for the MSM.
Wherein everything comes together so that the Mainstream Culture, of average Americans, will finally understand what we Conservatives have been telling them for years about the Leftist bias of the MSM and Hollywood.
Not that I want the MSM to be destroyed, but we can't have honest discussions with fellow citizens because those citizens that depend upon the MSM - for news - do not have a true clue as to what is going on, whether it be weather/climate issues, politics, the War on Islamic Terror,... I would rather it collapse and then be reborn with a new focus on presenting the news as was intended.
Yeah, I am being a little naive, I guess. It is not like Libs to ever admit they were the ones that were wrong.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at September 15, 2008 9:40 AM
Yeah, and besides that, the little gal is really quite cute!
Posted by: Dwaine at September 15, 2008 10:07 AM
Hey this is the NEW YORK SLIMES its the most liberal news rags in america no wonder its losing readers i mean would you like to see its cheif reptile FRANK RICH selling pencils on times square
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 15, 2008 11:10 AM
I think the biggest source of left-wing bias in the MSM comes from an organization that doesn't get talked about much. Namely, the AP. 99% of newspapers across the nation do no reporting on national and international news. They simply reprint, usually verbatim, what comes off the AP wire. In short, the AP controls the dissemination of 95+% of our news. They're the American version of TASS (the Russian news agency), except that they aren't directly under the thumb of the government. No, they create their leftist claptrap voluntarily.
Posted by: ent at September 15, 2008 11:21 AM
ent, that gives me an idea...
Why not somehow 'prove' to the islamists that the AP reporters are all secretly spies for Mossad? Maybe then all AP offices around the world would simultaneously turn to dust?
A little mis-information can go a long way, right AP? A taste of their own medicine.
Posted by: Doug at September 15, 2008 12:00 PM
Because the Islamic militants know full-well that the AP is on their side. They even acknowledge them as their greatest weapon against the West.
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at September 15, 2008 3:25 PM
