Liberals, please defend this

[ogarbitrage]

Hide ‘D,’ Showcase ‘R’

On March 10, 2008, news broke that New York governor Eliot Spitzer had been linked to a prostitution ring. It took NBC News four nights to acknowledge Spitzer’s party affiliation. In its first two days of coverage, Matt Lauer’s Todayshow ran 18 segments on the scandal and never once identified him as a Democrat.

But what happens when a Republican elected official is linked to a prostitute? In July 2007, Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was revealed as a client in the phone records of the so-called D.C. Madam. Every broadcast network ran stories on the scandal and every story underscored that Vitter was a Republican.

On March 24, 2008, another kind of scandal struck. All three broadcast networks covered the news that Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. Somehow in the who-what-where reportage there wasn’t room for any of them to insert the word “Democrat.”

Four months after Mayor Kilpatrick was indicted, so too was Alaska senator Ted Stevens, allegedly for failing to report gifts. All three broadcast networks covered the story. Amazingly, they used identical language to describe him as “the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate.”

Compare that to Rod Blagojevich, the bizarre, loud-mouthed and foul-mouthed former governor of Illinois. He relished the klieg lights and seemingly was everywhere (until he landed at a more permanent address: prison). “Blago” was removed as governor on January 29, 2009, after being arrested and charged with corruption. ABC, CBS, and NBC gave major consideration to the story yet somehow managed not to inform their viewers that he was a Democrat. Blagojevich was convicted in June of 2011, and it happened again: major coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC, with absolutely no Democratic label in sight.

So too former U.S. representative William Jefferson of Louisiana. On August 5, 2009, he was found guilty on charges of bribery, racketeering, and wire fraud. ABC and NBC covered the story on their evening newscasts, but only ABC labeled him a Democrat. CBS Evening News ignored the story altogether. The following morning all three filed stories. ABC and CBS ignored his party affiliation.

Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin — “the face of Hurricane Katrina,” as ABC’s Diane Sawyer reminded viewers — was indicted on charges of corruption on January 18, 2013. News on all networks, no Democratic label on any. Nagin was convicted a year later, and the pattern continued: coverage by all three networks and again no party affiliation.

Last year on February 15, former U.S. representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged with embezzling three quarters of a million dollars from his campaign funds. Neither CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News bothered to identify Jackson as a Democrat. ABC World News didn’t bother to file a story at all. The next morning they all covered it. And they all omitted his identity as a Democrat.

Last November 19, it was discovered that Representative Trey Radel of Florida had been arrested the month before for possession of cocaine. “Breaking new details on the Republican congressman caught buying cocaine,” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos declared on Good Morning America. “The tea-party talk-radio host now facing prison time . . . ” There’s a trifecta: Republican, conservative, and talk-show host to boot. The other networks followed suit with the perfunctory party affiliation.

Objectivity: the antithesis of the liberal mindset.

 

[Ricter]

There is a well known liberal bias among journalists, and academicians, and the police, and the courts, and teachers, and unions (of course), and establishment rinos, and minorities, and Wall Street, and banks (ok, j/k about that last one). In short, everyone is against you.

 

[ogarbitrage]

I was hoping for better from you, of all the posters here.

 

[Ricter]

I was hoping for better from you, of all the posters here.

I'm flattered.

But why expect a different answer? Those groups have all been called "liberally biased" at one time or another right here on this board.

 

[ogarbitrage]

Do you consider them biased or is NR cherry picking?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

I was hoping for better from you, of all the posters here.

I hope this is sarcasm.

 

[ogarbitrage]

It was not.

 

[Tsing Tao]

It was not.

You should know better, my friend. Ricter will never admit to any fault on the left, even if it is glaringly staring him in the face.

 

[Scataphagos]

Liberals defend everything Liberal and everything any Liberal says and does. The Liberals have a Communist-like agenda and are doing GREAT harm to America.... and they don't care. All they care about is their agenda. Sadly, they are uncomfortably close to accomplishing their goal.

It took them 100 years... but with the parasite class now >50%, I believe they've reached "critical mass" and can't be stopped. AMERICA IS GOING "FULL COMMIE".... whether we patriots like it or not.

:>(

 

[Ricter]

Liberals defend everything Liberal and everything any Liberal says and does. The Liberals have a Communist-like agenda and are doing GREAT harm to America.... and they don't care. All they care about is their agenda. Sadly, they are uncomfortably close to accomplishing their goal.

It took them 100 years... but with the parasite class now >50%, I believe they've reached "critical mass" and can't be stopped. AMERICA IS GOING "FULL COMMIE".... whether we patriots like it or not.

:>(

Lol, nice.