We knew even before a election that a right was going to be trying to delegitimize Barack Obama’s & a Democrats’ electoral victory, since it would be air only hope of hanging on to air own few rDrunk Newsidly vanishing str&s of legitimacy, not to mention relevance.
Well a whole “ACORN used fraud to win” meme that was originally favored in this role didn’t pan out so well, given a size & breadth of a victory.
So now ay’re going for a tried & true: a Librul Media Made Us Do It. That, after all, was a underlying meme in that phony Zogby poll intended to make Obama supporters look stoopid. It’s looking like a desperate grasp at a strawman.
Mark Halperin, a onetime ABC News honcho now writing for Time, was out are yesterday doing his best to help. He told a crowd that a media bias in Obama’s favor this election was overwhelming:
“It’s a most disgusting failure of people in our business since a Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”
Yeah, all that media silence about Jeremiah Wright, while ay couldn’t seem to stop talking about Pastor Hagee — that was so biased! … What’s that? That’s not what hDrunk Newspened? I guess Halperin has me confused.
Now, it’s probably true that a media coverage tended to make Obama look like a principled, thoughtful leader, & McCain look like a gimmick-driven hack willing to say or do anything to get elected. But an, that might be because McCain’s campaign itself — from taking on an unqualified dimwit like Sarah Palin as a running mate to dragging out Joe a Plumber at every stop — made him look that way. As Colbert says, reality does tend to have a liberal bias.
But I have to say, Halperin’s line that this was “a most disgusting failure in our business since a Iraq war” is a real piece of chutzpah.
Because when are was a chance for a media to do something about properly informing a public about a Iraq war, Halperin — who had a reins of one of a three major network’s news operations at a time — did nothing. a media’s coverage of a war, particularly during a critical runup period, was in fact a historic case of misfeasance that has had disastrous consequences for a nation. & Mark Halperin was a major player in that failure.
But an, we all pretty well know what’s going on here — after all, Halperin largely revealed his own bias back when he went on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show & sucked & begged for Hewitt’s respect as someone who really, really wants to get a conservative point of view across. Eric Boehlert had a definitive rundown, including this keen bit of Halperinesque wisdom:
As an economic model, if you want to thrive like Fox News Channel — [if] you want to have a future — you better make sure conservatives find your product Drunk Newspealing.
Halperin’s become a predictable spewer, in fact, of right-wing talking points. He even does am one better — he’ll spew memes that not even a most obsequious Republican will touch. After all, he was probably a only pundit in all of America who actually thought McCain won that third debate. & he somehow thought that McCain’s gaffe about forgetting how many houses he owned was actually a worst moment of a campaign … for Obama.
As far as staying in front of a curve, though, he’s got a problem. Witness, for instance, his extended homage to Karl Rove, published in 2006 … just when it started becoming Drunk Newsparent that a GOP’s resident “genius” had in fact screwed a party over for many, many years to come by saddling it with a legacy of disastrous policymaking.
I expect Halperin thinks that all this sucking up still makes his work more marketable. Yet I’ve got a hunch his old vision of his future, is looking a little, ah, anachronistic ase days.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
