The Press Defense is BS

Response to the Politico: Why McCain is getting hosed in the press

The press is feeling the hate, and is telling us that it isn’t their fault, it’s those darn Republicans. Having been inundated with e-mails and calls about biased reporting, they tell us that if the country is about to elect a mystery man for President, a man whose past associations were mentioned and then buried, the fault lies with infighting among in the McCain camp.

Charles Krauthammer had a great example of this yesterday when he referred to the issue of Jeremiah Wright. Obama has been a member of this racist, anti-Semitic hatemonger’s church for 20 years, even calling him his spiritual mentor. When Wright’s sermons become public Obama gives a speech in which he says he rejects the message but embraces the messenger, and the press swoons, likening the Philadelphia speech to the Gettysburg address. Chris Matthews have a near-orgasmic experience. A few weeks later, Wright surfaces again in a speech at the National Press Club, calling Obama the dreaded “P” word (politician) and this time Obama disowns him, totally reversing course, and the press swoons again. And Wright disappears from view with never another question raised again on how Obama managed to sit thought 20 years of hate and racism.

The Obama campaign has pounded and pounded the fact that only the “rich” would see tax increases, and 95% of Americans would have their taxes reduced. Given the fact that 30-40% of Americans don’t pay income taxes that assertion is a flat out lie. The press ignores the issue; the only place this gets play is in the internet and on talk radio. In the last few days the definition of the rich who would have their taxes raised has dropped from $250,000 to $200,000 and then – via Biden – to $150,000. And the press averts it eyes, not asking for even a moment if any of this is to be believed.

In short, the press bias problem is not just their role as attack dogs for the Obama campaign; it’s their role as cover up artists for the Obama campaign.

In blaming the Republicans, the press is using the “quick, look over here” defense and by now it’s so tattered and torn I wonder why they use three pages to raise it once again.

This member of the public has a few choice words for this sorry crew: f**k off.