Category — mainstream media

I just took the bookmarks to the NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post out of my web browser and will no longer regularly visit those sites.  I can’t support them with web traffic given their unbelievably biased coverage this election season.  The latest example is this non story over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe.  Sarah wasn’t given 2 phony baloney book contracts by her liberal friends in the media, so the Republican Party spent $150K on a campaign wardrobe.

I know.  I too was horrified!  A politician bought nice suits for a campaign—news flash at 11!  Of course, we don’t know how much Barack Obama and Joe Biden spend on their suits.  I’m sure they buy their shirts at the Burlington Coat Factory and their jackets and pants off the rack at the Men’s Warehouse, right?  And the media doesn’t seem real interested in Michele Obama’s lobster and Iranian caviar lunch at the Waldorf Astoria.  Do you think the Obamas paid for that with their own money?

Meanwhile, the media fastidiously ignores the real money scandal of this Presidential Election—Barack Obama’s broken promise to accept public financing and the $600 million he’s attempting to buy the presidency with.  Think the media might touch on that subject had McCain broken his promise?  Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to demand answers from Obama on that lie.  But the story gets even better now that we find out the Obama campaign isn’t policing its Internet donations.

That’s right!  ACORN can register Mickey Mouse to vote and foreign nationals can donate in Mickey’s name at the Obama web site.  Obama turned off the standard credit card protection and name verification apparatus used by any somewhat credible online merchant.  Remember all the hype about the small donations and brand new contributors to the Obama campaign?  I’m guessing a lot of them are not real people, foreign nationals, or terrorists living in a cave between Afghanistan and Pakistan.  That might be an interesting and important story.  If only the media wasn’t so busy looking for price tags on Sarah Palin’s clothes, maybe they could devote some time to it.

There is one ray of “sunshine” in this whole sordid tale.  As Michele Malkin notes, the mainstream media is dying.  Moody’s announced today that it might cut the NY Times debt to junk status given its latest horrific quarter, and the Times isn’t the only MSM outlet struggling to keep its head above water.  It’s a shame that it has to come to this.  A strong, unbiased, media with an investigative bent would add such value to our democracy, but when you shift from journalist to liberal propagandist, you deserve to sink.

Update:  Over at the Corner, they make the point that someone would have to knowingly disable the automatic checks to reach the level of fraud Obama’s donation site is capable of producing.