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Washington comPost: Yeah, so a Dem Congressman assaulted a college kid with a camera…so what?

From NRO:

The Washington Post, the newspaper than mentioned “Macaca” in approximately 100 articles (13 on the front page, i.e. page A-1! – Ed.), op-eds, editorials about the 2006 Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Jim Webb, watches the video of Rep. Bob Etheridge, North Carolina Democrat, physically assaulting a questioner and concludes it warrants three paragraphs on page C3, in the Reliable Source gossip column.

The opening sentence? “So what really happened when Rep. Bob Etheridge ran into a couple of self-described ‘students’ on the streets of D.C. last week?”

David Weigel, who used the term “hug” in his initial report on the altercation and has been receiving furious e-mails since, is cited; the Post should have let him write an actual print story on this. In this news nugget, there is little or no description beyond ‘grabbing the wrist’ of one of the young men.

This is not even bias anymore; this is information management, designed to ensure those who pick up the print version of the Post never encounter what the blogosphere is buzzing about.

So, just to recap: a Dem Congressman manhandles a kid and it gets the “one run, three-paragraph, page C-3″ treatment, but a Republican Senator utters an obscure never-been-heard-before word that the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) just know is offensive gets the “100+ runs and 13 front page stories” treatment.  Nope…no liberal media bias!

Exit question, though a predictable and rhetorical one:  What would the reaction have been from the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) had a Republican done this?

June 15, 2010 Posted by crushliberalism | media bias, moonbats | 6 Comments