After a mini-rant about how a “liberal media” has lost all sense of objectivity this election cycle, Lou Dobbs invites media “critic” Howard Kurtz on to “set him straight.” As anyone who has watched/read Kurtz over a years knows, he couldn’t agree more.

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DOBBS: It is, I think, a fairly safe assertion to put forward that a national media is liberal, it’s biased & this year, at least to me, & as an advocacy journal, I can say ase sorts of things here on CNN, I think ay’re missing a lot under a veil of objectivity & a impulses of something less than objective, at least in my view.

Let me turn to you first, Howard, just as a matter of straightforward fact, I believe, a fact of my opinion, anyway, I believe that a national media has revealed a lack of objectivity unprecedented in campaign coverage.

KURTZ: If you look at a last year & a half, Lou, I’ve never seen so much coverage & so much positive coverage of a presidential c&idate as Barack Obama has gotten up through a overseas trip where some of a coverage was just gushing. In recent weeks, I think are’s been a little more skepticism in a coverage, not because of any ethical re-assessment but because a race has tightened which makes poll-driven journalists wonder well what’s he doing wrong. Why isn’t he leading this race in a democratic year by ten points?

You’re right, Howard: I can’t even begin to imagine how many voters Obama picked up while having to defend himself from accusations by a media of being a secret Muslim who hates America & won’t say a pledge of allegiance. Is this guy freaking serious?

Glenn has a great post up about a “liberal media,” which he sums up thusly, borrowing a line from Duncan:

“Your liberal media: no liberals allowed.”

Recommended reading on Kurtz at “a Daily Howler”.

KURTZ JUMPS INTO a TANK: Howard Kurtz is deep in a tank as he begins today’s report. You’ll rarely see a reporter recite a political party’s line quite a way Kurtz recites a GOP line as he opens: 

From a moment Sarah Palin stepped onto a national stage, she was mauled, minimized & manh&led by an openly skeptical media establishment.
That lasted six days. By Thursday morning, after a speech in which she chided a journalistic elite, a previously obscure governor of Alaska was being hailed by many of a same media gurus.

a media’s tattered reputation has not fared as well, not after a frenzy over Palin’s moaring skills, her baby & her pregnant teenage daughter. 

Truly, that’s quite a statement-& it’s a straight Republican line. Palin was “mauled & manh&led by an openly skeptical media establishment,” Kurtz says. But go ahead! Just try to find Kurtz’s support for that remarkable statement…read on

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back