From Patterico:
Today John McCain finally began to tell the country about his own efforts to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Democrats’ incredible inaction. Yes, as many of us had urged, McCain finally talked about the economy, and the conservative blogs went nuts. Republican bloggers know that McCain has to talk about this, because the economy is the top issue concerning Americans, and McCain has a good story to tell — even if it’s one that the media has been ignoring.
Speaking of which:
How did the L.A. Times cover McCain’s stunning speech taking on this core economic concern?
By pretending McCain never said it, and by quoting Barack Obama talking about how McCain is scared to talk about the economy.
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At which point McCain launched into the amazing speech quoted by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, during which he laid out the case, at great length, for the Democrats’ responsibility for the mortgage crisis.Does the L.A. Times report one word of that? No. Instead, they cut the quote of McCain’s speech short there, right before he talks about the economy, and proceed to quote Obama as claiming that McCain is scared to talk about the economy…
And they wonder why they’re losing business and laying off employees? Proverbs 11:3 tells us that “Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people.”
Patterico updates that the LAT has drastically altered the story, and by “drastically altered”, I mean “dropped it completely down the memory hole in hopes that no one noticed.” Nope…no liberal media bias!
This is absolutely unbelievable. Hannity is right, honest journalism died in 2008.
Comment by Kanaka Girl — October 7, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
LAT didnt censor him they just ran out of room for his comments. They had to put more advertizing in the thing.
Comment by WMD_Maker — October 7, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Wow Crush, are you implying that there is in fact a liberal media bias? Say it isn;t so Joe.
Comment by jennofthejungle — October 7, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
Of course there’s no such thing as liberal media bias!
Coincidentally, I was wondering why I need to fight so hard to supress my gag reflex every time I am exposed to any form of media coverage of ‘08 election developments…
Comment by Hunter — October 7, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Nope, no media bias there. None whatsoever.
What a bunch of sonzabitches.
Comment by Braden — October 7, 2008 @ 8:20 pm