Remember that thrill MSNBC’s Chris Matthews felt coming up his leg as he watched a speech by Barack Obama? Or how he and Keith Olbermann cooed over the Democratic nominee’s acceptance speech in Denver?
It seems their “news” network has become little more than a broadcast outlet of the Obama campaign.
Now it seems we’ve found a print version of MSNBC. On the front page of today’s Washington Post, there are two front-page stories which seem little more than press releases from the Democratic National Committee.
Jennifer Rubin wonders why its “editors to put on Page One a story about Cindy McCain’s past drug addiction.” First, this is the candidate’s wife, second, Mrs. McCain “stopped taking the painkillers in 1992,” sixteen years ago.
You’d think the Post would have better things to write about, say the Democratic candidate for president’s association with an unrepentant terrorist which began (as far as I can tell) at least three years after Mrs. McCain put her problem with painkillers behind her.
On the very front page where the Post delves into the problems of the Republican candidate’s wife from sixteen years ago, it misrepresents the comments made by the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee this week. What is it with this paper and Republican women?
As Rubin put it, the paper “invents” a Palin “‘gaffe’ on Iraq.” The Post claims she linked Iraq to 9/11 when all she did was say her son was headed to Iraq to “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” As Bill Kristol puts it, the paper’s:
interpretation of what Palin said is either stupid or malicious. Palin is evidently saying that American soldiers are going to Iraq to defend innocent Iraqis from al Qaeda in Iraq, a group that is related to al Qaeda, which did plan and carry out the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Post may well be becoming the house organ of the Democratic National Committee. 100 articles on a Republican Senator’s gaffe, a page-one article on the sixteen-year-old (long since fixed) problem of a Republican candidate’s wife and the invention of a gaffe of the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.
Don’t think they’ll be devoting too much time to the latest gaffe of the Democratic presidential nominee.
UPDATE:  Commenting on the coverage of the Palin interview, Bob Owens writes, “Here’s a novel concept: why don’t reporters limit themselves to reporting facts.”  (Via Instapundit.)
UP-UPDATE: Â Powerline has more, first on the slanted coverage of the Palin interview, then on the Cindy McCain article.
Comrade Obama snorting Colombian Blow? No ay problemo. Cindy McCain addicted to pain killers? The world will end.
The best thing to do is cancel your subscription and move on. The way to kill a media outlet is to never talk about it and let them alienate reader after reader until they crumble. Just like MSNBC did to themselves.
Yet if you bring up something from Obama’s past, it’s off limits. I’m sick of this. Nothing is off limits anymore. As far as I’m concerned we need to start doing exposés on journalists.
You want the press to ignore candidate’s wives? How delicious. Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton would get a chuckle out of this.
The story here is more about McCain using his influence to shield his wife, is it not? Spinning the story will get you dizzy.
Ok, try this, how many abortions has Michelle Obama had?
Are those two girls the children of Barack? DNA test please.
Democrats start this crap, let’s see who finishes it.
New tone, post partisian my butt. His campaign is a house of cards.
The generic Rep/Dem preference is down to a 3% gap. From 20% favoring the Dems!! Seems the anti Palin, anti American woman, anti Mayor campaign is working real well.
Plus the Post has been buring the story about Charlie Rangel not paying taxes on investment property on page 16 — I’ll leave it to you to guess what party he belongs to since that tends to get buried in the story as well. And the MSM wonders why so many people tune them out.
um, Jimmy, it’s probably pointless to bring this to your attention but here goes:
Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama both injected themselves into policy debate (think HillaryCare) and Michelle’s various speeches. Hillary fancied herself as a co-president and she’s a US Senator.
Cindy McCain talks about charitable work and her husband… not much policy content and no insults directed at her country or her husband’s opponents. Her pain-killer addiction was a long time ago and has nothing at all to do with John’s run for office.
The media have gone from bias to outright libel, slander, and just-plain lying.
#3: good idea!