And I’d say the double standards by Us magazine on the cover page they did for the Obamas versus the one they did for Gov. Sarah Palin speaks volumes.
This is the uphill battle we, as conservatives, face. This battle includes not only things like the differing Us magazine covers, but also the usual phoney “slashed spending!!” charges, like the WaPo does here against Gov. Palin on funding for teen moms (which is debunked here), we typically hear and read from mediot elites who know better, but who instead choose to show who they’re in the tank for with liberally biased opinion pieces disguised as “news stories.”
Maddening.
Update/Related, via Ed Morrissey: The reason for the Palin bashing in the media
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Maddening? Yes…but not unexpected. It’s totally in character. Rags like US have less journalistic integrity than, say….the National Enquirer.
The best way to fight this garbage is to do what Ronald Reagan used to do. Go over the heads of the media and talk directly to the American people. I’m looking forward to that tonight.
Comment by Great White Rat @ 9/3/2008 - 9:27 am
Today’s WSJ takes a look at exactly why the MSM lynch mob is in such a frenzy:
Comment by Great White Rat @ 9/3/2008 - 9:42 am
Great minds think alike, GWR
See the updated link to Ed Morrissey’s post. Good WSJ piece - and spot on, although I think there are other reasons as well for the media’s attacks on Gov. Palin.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 9/3/2008 - 9:49 am
I have a problem with US magazine trying to tell me the reasons Barack loves Michelle. This puts questions into my mind, such as, does he really??? If he truly loves Michelle then why does the media have to force feed us the reasons??? Look at the picture, does Barack look like he is stiff??? Like his smile is forced?? Michelle looks genuine, but Barack looks not so much so. Now Sarah Palin’s pic, it is so evident she is in love with her newborn son. And who wouldn’t be. It’s a baby boy. Boyz rule… ahhhh Girlz rule too.
- Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 9/3/2008 - 1:16 pm
Ah, the political Juggernaut that is US magazine. Cower before it Palin, because YOU have a baby scandal. FOR SHAME.
Comment by alchemist @ 9/3/2008 - 1:59 pm
I’m picking up your sarcasm! Yet I have no doubt that if the situation were reversed the Obama camp would be screaming racism along with the rabble of sheeple that follow him.
Comment by NC Cop @ 9/3/2008 - 2:14 pm
In one sense, I’m a little pleased that the mediots - I mean the supposedly serious ones, not trashy rags like US - have spent the last five days screaming about how Governor Palin is sooooo unqualified and ought to get back in the kitchen where she belongs.
By taking their cue from places like Kos and the Obama campaign, they’ve managed to set expectations very low. All she has to do tonight is come across as a common-sense woman who loves her country and can talk firmly about broad themes like energy and government reform,and the TV audience will say to itself, “She’s not so bad…what was all the fuss about?”
They’ve made it so she doesn’t have to hit a home run tonight, just a solid single. But I’m fully expecting the home run anyway.
Comment by Great White Rat @ 9/3/2008 - 3:30 pm
Comment by Neo @ 9/3/2008 - 5:06 pm
Don’t get me wrong, folks, and I realize this will not be a popular sentiment, but I think the media is doing it’s job for it’s democratic masters.
Most Americans don’t have time to research candidates, nor do they have time to track down all of the smears against a candidate. They get their news from the TV stations, newspapers, and magazines which we all know are about 90% in the tank for Obama. In the end, they will get so sick of hearing about the media generated “scandals” they will vote the other way.
I certainly hope I’m wrong, but at this point, I’m merely hoping that America can survive 4 years under Obama.
Comment by NC Cop @ 9/3/2008 - 6:48 pm
NC Cop–
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think they’ve done their job on you.
Don’t you see that this is part of the point–to demoralize us?
Don’t let them do it to you.
Comment by Trish @ 9/3/2008 - 9:57 pm
People like alchemist pretend that the feeding frenzy won’t touch them, that the treatment he and his ilk dish out to Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, Kathleen Harris, Sarah Palin, and any other protected category that gets uppity or wanders off the reservation is unconnected to what and who they are.
But radical revolutions always - always - end up feeding upon their own, from the French to the Bolshevist and Maoist ones. When the likes of alchemist get hauled up before the People’s Tribunals they are invariably astonished and convinced that a mistake has been made somewhere, and if only thre Dear Leader were aware he’d fix it right away.
It wasn’t a neocon that embedded the ice ax in Trotsky’s head, but one of his own side. The worst thing that can happen to the happy warriors on the left is that their side wins. Then the internecine bloodletting begins. “No enemies to the left” transmute to “No enemies left alive.” When you will sell out any principle you have, any one at all, for political expediency, then nobody is safe within or without the movement.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 9/3/2008 - 10:04 pm
NC COP- I was thinking of the US magazine cover last night…. it is one of my least favorite (and most commonly ridiculed) magazines.
My Joke: “Why is US magazine always focused on THEM”
Still, a number of people view that tabloid crap as reality. If it prints it, they believe it (or believe it’s worth reading). Unfortunately, some people will read these covers and choose a side based on this ridiculous “baby scandal”.
I realize it’s not my election, nor do I have any say in the dirt flung by either side, but (it if makes any difference) I’d rather not win votes based solely on a US magazine cover.
Comment by alchemist @ 9/4/2008 - 9:18 am
Agreed, however, that’s exactly where it’s trying to be won. As I said before, your average American doesn’t have the time to research and debunk every lie or smear thrown towards the Republicans. So whatever they hear or see on the news stand or the 6 o’clock news MUST be true. You can say what you want about the issues, the dems are trying to win this election on personality. They are taking a lesson from the Clinton years. Clinton spoke very little about the issues. He was on Arsenio Hall playing the sax and people thought he was cool. Hell, I almost voted for him!!
They are doing the same thing with Obama. Have you noticed you haven’t heard much about his policies? All they do is try and link McCain with Bush, that’s IT. Why? Because he is unpopular.
No, I don’t take it the wrong way, because to a certain extent, you’re right. I just get so tired of watching an obviously biased media engage in out and out propaganda for one candidate. For years all we’ve heard is “The media is the watchdog of the government”. Well who is the watchdog for the media? They have outright immunity to say whatever they want regardless of the facts.
As anyone on this blog will tell you I am an enthusiastic McCain/Palin supporter and proud to be a Republican. I just grow weary of this one sided reporting from our “unbiased” media.
Comment by NC Cop @ 9/4/2008 - 4:43 pm