Congeries of cross connected concepts
What mockery can suffice for the latest Old Media epic fail on the subject of Sarah Palin? As many have noted, this is foremost The Narrative in action. One might also wonder how this story about a putatively irrelevant former politician on an obscure parody website came to the attention of the Washington Post in the first place. But hardly unexpected in an environment where the political directory for a major network news organization calls for the destruction of a major political party. Although reading any bias in to that is clearly just being hoodwinked by the right wing noise machine.
P.S. Let’s not forget the massive bias in covering the killing of an American Ambassador in Benghazi. A good quote
Yet President Obama avoided all of that [press criticism]. Indeed, it was Mitt Romney who incurred the special wrath of reporters for his criticism of a statement made by the American embassy in Egypt after the building was stormed by an angry mob (a criticism, by that way, that the Obama administration agreed with a few hours after Mr. Romney made it).
The Obama Administration lies massively about Benghazi, sends an innocent film maker to jail, and yet Old Media excoriated Romney for making an accurate statement, because that statement was critical of Obama. Yet I’m expected to believe that is not evidence of bias.
| Bret Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 10:03 |  |
I have trouble getting wound up over Benghazi. Yes, they made a mistake, or at minimum made a staffing decision that in retrospect turned out very poorly. I’m not expecting perfection. If Benghazi was the worst of the Obama administration’s fiascoes, I’d be ecstatic.
The film make wasn’t so innocent. At least I don’t consider bank fraud innocent.
| erp Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 10:53 | |
Bret, as we learned when an earlier president whom Obama very closely resembles, it wasn’t the incident which was so egregious, it was the cover-up. In the earlier case which involved no violence or loss of life, the cover-up was amateurish and involved only a few people. The press was all over it. Movies, books, etc. Made a lot of people rich and famous. The president was disgraced and resigned.
In Benghazi, four people were killed and the cover-up involved the highest level of government from the president to the SOS, to the DOJ, to the CIA and the MSM studiously ignored it until they reported the SOS said at a congressional hearing, “What difference does it make now?” and then dropped it into the dustbin of history.
