October 21st 2008
Media Bias #92
He Ain’t Clever, He’s My Brother
AP has a new journalistic skill: It can look into the eyes of a presidential candidate, like Bush on Putin, and see the true motivation behind his actions. Skeptical? Then analyze this:
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama is bringing several GOP-leaning states he’s aiming to win together in one place. A clever campaign trick? No.
Abracadabra! Ta da! There you have it! AP in its unbiased wisdom has looked at the ploy charade grandstanding tactic of holding a job summit “in economically precarious Florida, with participation by the governors of several states that went Republican four years ago and for which the Democratic presidential nominee is making a serious play this time around,” and decreed that NO, it is most assuredly NOT a clever campaign trick.
Such gimcrackery is beneath The One.
But in AP’s all-seeing eye, its definitely not beneath that Country First guy. On Sept. 25, when reporting on whether or not the presidential debate would go forward in light of McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign, the shazam-o-meter at AP was definitely not in favor of the candidate:
As Thursday began, McCain again portrayed his announced halt to campaign events, fundraising and advertising which he said would begin after the Clinton speech as an example of putting the country ahead of politics. But in doing so he also hoped to get political credit for a decisive step on a national crisis as polls show him trailing Obama on the economy and slipping in the presidential race. (emphasis added; via Nexis so no link)
It ain’t bias, folks. It’s being able to see into the fourth dimension.
Media Bias 2008 covers pro-Obama media bias. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.
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