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July 4th 2008     

Media Bias 2008: #12

Posted by: Laer at 05:29 pm

Media Bias 2008 will cover pro-Obama media bias all the way up to the election. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering only reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.

12.Veering Left of the Obvious

Both prez candidates are left-handed, so WaPo’s Melissa Roth decided to write a cute little feature on the nation’s most visible southpaws. Check out her lead:

John McCain may veer to the right, but make no mistake: The Republican presidential contender is a born lefty, just like his Democratic counterpart, Barack Obama.

Uh-huh. Given that McCain is hardly a hard-right kind of guy, this lead would have been better: Barack Obama is friends with lots of lefties like William Ayres, but that’s not all that’s left about him: He’s a born lefty, just like his Republican counterpart, John McCain.

But of course she went out of her way to avoid that approach.

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With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.

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