Media No Longer Loves McCain
It’s hard to feel sorry for John McCain when he’s the victim of media bias. There’s no small amount of poetic justice in seeing him raked across the coals now after having been lauded by the same biased media when he was advancing liberal causes as a “maverick” Republican.
Here’s an example of his former NY Times “friends” blasting him for getting John Hagee’s endorsement. Now John McCain was never a member of Hagee’s church. His children weren’t baptized by Hagee. Hagee was not McCain’s mentor, friend, or spiritual adviser. Yet the Times blasts McCain while providing all the top cover it can for Barack Obama’s 20 year relationship with Jeremiah Wright.
This is only the start too. The media has the long knives out for McCain while doing everything they can to get Barack Obama elected.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, John McCain, Media Bias, Presidential PoliticsMay 25, 2008 at 7:52 am | Trackback
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Didn’t McCain specifically say that Hagee _was_ his ’spiritual adviser’ in the earlier days of the campaign? A quick Google search suggests so, despite what he may be saying now.
Perhaps his memory just isn’t what it used to be.
If so Josh, I stand corrected. However, I believe the larger point that Barack gets a pass from the MSM stands.
Irregardless of this small potato or that small potato (or who owns either), does not the media sensitize the electorate for the newest politically correct hot potato du jour?
Are there still people within the Democratic party who claim all people justly claim “equivalent” viability after the intensity of their sexist and racist arguments? Could it be that each side is capable of….. “moral judgement”….. of the other Democrat?
Say it isn’t so!
“Equivalency” is a game of Slap Me and I’ll Slap You rather than an attempt for peaceful resolution. One would think that if central truths are to be found a capacity for “moral judgement” and respect are useful tools.
Is it possible that some people more spiritual than others? Is it possible that some religions are more mainstream than others? Is it possible that anyone might believe either, in truth? Is it possible that a candidate might want to separate his religious beliefs from his public service? Is this the correct thing to do?
“To judge or not to judge?”… that is their question.
I have to admit I don’t really pay much attention to the MSM, so I can’t really say whether or not Obama tends to ‘get a pass’. He certainly doesn’t online, however. I don’t think I’ve seen a single discussion about Obama where at least one person didn’t call him Osama, or emphasize that his middle name is Hussein, or outright accuse him of being a crypto-Muslim.
Hell, just today Liz Trotta, live on Fox News, not only called him Osama (possibly just a slip of the tongue), but then went on to say that both fo them (Osama bin Ladin and Barack Obama) should be killed. So perhaps the MSM is giving him a pass on the Rev. Wright thing, but they’re certainly not in other regards.
Oh, here’s a link to the clip, if anyone’s interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0
Fox isn’t part of the MSM, Josh. Call me when CNN or one of the major broadcast networks says anything negative about Obama.
Fox news isn’t mainstream? It has the largest number of viewers of any cable news network in the country…