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Laugher of the day: MSM favors…McCain!

Yes, indeed.  The Big Three follow the Obamessiah to the ends of the Earth (Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan, anyway), while not a single one of them went with Juanny Mac during his overseas jaunt…but the MSM is in the tank for McCain!  Journalists at the UNITY conference are squealing like prepubescent girls at a Jonas Brothers concert, but the old dude is the one getting press love.  Just when I think I’ve heard everything.  This is rich…as in, Frank Rich of the NY Times:

…The growing Obama clout derives not from national polls, where his lead is modest. Nor is it a gift from the press, which still gives free passes to its old bus mate John McCain…

If, by “free pass”, you mean ran the “heavy on innuendo, light on facts and evidence” hit piece about McCain and his alleged affair with a lobbyist, then yeah…”free pass”!  By the way, that hit piece was written by…anyone?…the NYT!

Seriously, does Rich not even read his own employer’s work?  I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t, since with drops in revenue of 82%, it’s obvious that fewer people are reading that fishwrap.  But Rich must have been out the day his bosses ran the aforementioned tabloid smear job on McCain, prompting their own ombudsman to concede that such a story deficient of sources and facts never should have run (much less on page A-1).

(Sidebar: the NYT seems eager to run with some “less than corroborated” stories like the McCain hit piece, but not as eager to run with other similar stories, such as the John Edwards lovechild story, which actually is more corroborated than the McCain smear job!  But I digress.)

Sure, the MSM in the past has been infatuated with McCain, especially when he was a thorn in the side of the evil emperor Bu$hitler McCheneyburton.  But now that he has the temerity to challenge the Second Coming, he is Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of the MSM.  But no, Frank…no liberal media bias!

July 29, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | McCain, media bias, Obama