The flood-the-zone coverage of President Barack Obama’s fake evolution on gay marriage and the obsession with Mitt Romney’s high school years have revived the “media are in the tank for Obama” complaints from conservatives. I’ve come up with 10 clues for assessing how deep in the tank is a given news organization:
1. Multiple front-page stories run on Romney’s high school bullying, while the administration’s bullying of industry and his campaign’s current snooping and harassing of Republican donors are ignored.
2. The incident personifying the current political environment is, we are told, the forced retirement of Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind. The primary defeat and forced retirements of moderate Democrats are simply business as usual.
3. Interest in the recall campaign against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, declines in inverse proportion to his chances of winning.
4. ” Life of Julia” is a non-subject.
5. Whatever Romney says on gay marriage is “knuckling under to his base.” Obama decision to announce his shift on gay marriage before a string of fundraisers gay donors is “brave” and “historic.”
6. When Romney declines to discuss the distraction of the week (e.g., paycheck “fairness” legislation), he is ducking an important issue and refusing to tell us his position. Obama’s decision to offer no concrete plan on entitlement reform is either smart politics or, once again, ignored.
7. Story after story on Mormonism are, we read, essential to understanding what makes Romney tick. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is old news, and it’s none of our business how frequently Obama goes to church.
8. There is next to no coverage of the defense sequestration cuts.
9. No analysis appears in stories on the economy comparing the Reagan recovery and the Obama “recovery.”
10. If and when the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, we will hear the “conservative justices marched in lockstep” and “right-wing justices stuck together.” The liberal justices, of course, we will be told, decided the case based on their good-faith reading of the “living Constitution.”
Yep, That’s it.
conservative filter”** conservative filter: the ability of conservatives to only notice things negative concerning conservatives and positive concerning liberals in the media or in discussion, creating a false sense of bias. Positive conservative news/discussion or negative liberal news/discussion is ignored and filtered out from the conservative brain, further enhancing the conservative sense of perpetual victimhood
Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:5.
Interesting article coming from the BDN.
Very interesting…esp by way of the Washington Post.
Jennifer Rubin’s “rainbow angel” pictured in the side photo–says it all–
This piece should be retitled: Not So Subtle Right Wing Self-Victimization
Will we ever have Liberals and Conservatives (both politicians and the public) discussing important issues? I have been blamed for following Fox,therefore I’m considered a “radial conservative. No emotionalisms ,please.But in truth, I listen to a lot of news channels. This writer asks questions and implies with a pseudo answer as to looking a both sides. If you believe in the gov’t controlling your life,ok, but you only have to look to Europe to see where we are heading. Some see it as the conservatives who ruined it in Europe,but they are not the ones who slowly,progressively, intentionally helped people to become more dependent on the gov’t. More power to them! But don’t we need to shift the direction,or there will continue a strong imbalance ? Look further down the road of America-which way do you want to go or to go down the drain.
Thank you Nathaniel for an unbiased comment. That’s rare on these sites.
Love that hilarious list. Even for all youse that will get defensive over it, there’s some truth in every joke.
I love it when the media complains about the liberal media bias. It really creates an air of credibility to their writing.
Here is what I have to say to you Jennifer Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, or sometimes it is better to keep silent and be thought a fool rather than open mouth and remove all doubts.
” After joining the Washington Post, Rubin drew criticism in the wake of the 2011 Norway attacks after she published a blog post suggesting incorrectly that the attacks were carried out by Islamic jihadists.[21] In a follow-up column,[22]
Rubin acknowledged that her decision to blame Muslim extremists for the
Norway attacks was premature, but she did not apologize for her remarks
nor did she condemn the right-wing anti-Muslim ideology that motivated
the attacker, Anders Behring Breivik. Jeffrey Goldberg defended Rubin’s initial article that falsely accused Muslims of perpetrating the attack.[23]”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rubin_%28journalist%29Notice wikipedia even put (journalist) in parenthesis, very telling.
The book on Jeremiah Wright is on the shelves. Look for it. There’s a lot more to it and it will surprise you because it shows a truer picture of him and a fairer picture-not so for his friend.
Be thankful for Fox News. If they were not around we might never know just how incompetent Obama really is. We would certainly never know about Fast & Furious, Solyndra, Steven Chu, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, etc. etc.
If there was anything important then…………..