Enjoyable Ass-Hattery, Courtesy The Chi Tribune

Media’s guilt plays well for Obama and McCain
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McCain is now cast as the crabby uncle who visits and shrieks there’s no gin in your house. He grabs the TV remote control, turns off the cartoons and forces the kids to watch the ancient Mesopotamia special on The History Channel.

Just hope the kids don’t dare tell uncle that Iraq doesn’t border Pakistan. He’ll nuke them.

Meanwhile, the Democrat Obama is treated quite differently. He’s the Mr. Tumnus of American politics, the gentle forest faun of Narnia, with throngs of reporters trembling to sit with him at tea and cakes, like the little girl in the C.S. Lewis story, as he plays the flute, chanting “We Are The Change We’ve Been Waiting For.” And nobody laughs.
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John Kass of the Chicago Tribune. Sure, the entire article just reiterates the old, tired “liberal media” schtick for the zillionth time. But at least Johnny boy makes it entertaining.

(Guess we had a conservative media eight years ago when McCain was the media darling.)

I flipped through the comments accompanying the article, and the first one’s a gem…

Is it really ‘Liberal’ bias, or just bias towards what they think provides the more compelling story? If the complaint is that style and a consistent Narrative are obscuring more critical analysis, perhaps the distinction doesn’t make much difference. But I don’t think it’s really a conscious attempt to push a particular poltical agenda, rather the tendency of the media to stoke up a story that they can not just report upon but help create. Ask liberal John Kerry whether he found that tendency helpful four years ago.
Ian Barton, Chicago, IL