It seemed a strange serendipity of circumstances that barely twenty-four hours after blogging about a journalism school honoring Katie Couric for biased coverage of Sarah Palin, I would discover the media ignoring the latest Joe Biden fabrication.
As I wrote last fall:
Joe Biden makes more gaffes the average week than Sarah Palin made in the entire campaign. Take out . . . Palin’s interview with Katie Couric, and you could say that Biden made more gaffes per speech than the Alaska Governor made in the entire campaign. And he had thirty-six years of “experience.”
While, during the campaign, the media made much of Biden’s experience, they ignored that of his rival for the Vice Presidency
Let me post a video I had posted last fall where former House Speaker Newt Gingrich comments on the biased coverage of the Alaska Governor and speculates that “to the best of [his] knowledge there has been a single question by an elite television journalist about [Palin’s] actual career in Alaska”
Just as the media ignored Sarah Palin’s accomplishments, they ignore Biden’s fabrications.
They root into every detail of Palin’s private family life, even into the peccadilloes of her daughter’s ex-fiancé’s mother. And while they not only rightfully ignore gossip about Biden’s family, they fail and fail yet again to highlight his own misunderstandings of issues and misrepresentations of fact.
The media did not cover Sarah Palin as they normally would cover an accomplished politician, but instead as an attractive celebrity. And Biden, well, Biden, they treat as a fading celebrity whose reputation they are trying to protect. They just don’t find his gaffes newsworthy. It might upset the image of the wise senior statesman.
Yet, the more they ignore his miscues, the more evidence we accumulate of their bias. They head to Wasilla to root around for dirt on Palin, yet when “dirt” on Biden emerges by the mere fact of him opening his mouth in front of a camera, they don’t even bother to check the tape.
Just by reviewing such tapes, they’d have an endless stream of stories. And they wouldn’t need pay for airfare to the Last Frontier or weather the inconvenience of a long journey clear across the continent.
UPDATE: Well Yahoo! did pick the story up (from Politico), but note how they frame it: Rove: Biden a ‘blowhard’ and ‘liar’. They make it as much about who’s calling the Vice President a liar as they do about the Democrat’s latest misrepresentation. Given how regularly Biden makes things up, you’d think such “news” outlets at Yahoo! would actually investigate this rather than report it as the contention of a conservative pundit/political strategist.
I’m still hoping one of these mucher smart libs like gillie, boob, kevin etc. will explain how Palin was not qualified but Bigot is.
They covered Palin as an usurper — someone who had no right to be there to begin with.
How DARE she! The elites have spent a long, long time, and a great deal of effort crafting the impression that you must be one of them in order to govern. You must go to their schools and belong to their circle. (Liberals have bought this hook line and sinker, because it strengthens their faith in their illusion of an all powerful government.)
But a woman who was most definately not one of them was doing a very good job of governing and threatened to show the world that the people can actually govern themselves, and worse, she threatened to show them that they could do it better.
Palin is a threat to the established order. Biden is Chester on Gun Smoke. The left is on a campaign to enshrine moral relativism. It important that the rules be malleable and transitory so their “progressive” drive to make all things possible will be a success. They work hard to contain the Judeo-Christian ethic and to avoid invoking it.
Palin stirs up the basic tenets of the Judeo-Christian ethic and that is sunlight the left fears and fights. Leftists paint her as afflicted with primitive, fundamentalist instincts as the ultimate proof that she is a drooling idiot.
Joe Biden is a lovable, consistent, useful idiot who poses no threat to the onward push to moral relativism. Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Kennedy are all Roman Catholics with theirs fingers crossed when they go mass, because they are more disciples of the worship of the state than the morality of the church. That pleases the MSM to no end.
Exactly what are her accomplishments, aside from 22 million dollar debt for Wasilla, the gas pipeline she couldn’t get built, etc?
Um, NJ Liberal: I have a better question. What exactly are Joe Biden’s accomplishments? Other than plagiarizing, lying and having particularly tacky hair plugs I mean?
Gov Palin was elected Govenor of arguably our most important energy producing state. Governor Palin stood up to those in her own party who were corrupt. She dismissed people not performing their jobs. Governor Palin has one of the highest approval ratings of any Governor in America. She performs, she isn’t one to skate by and depend on others to get a job done. She renegotiated a profit sharing deal with big oil, that she deemed unfair to the residents of Alaska. I’ll go on if you want. But there are 5 accomplishments for Gov Palin Would the leftists please list a couple accomplishments for Mr Obama prior to his campaign for President? I’d have a lot more respect for our liberal friends if they didn’t just parrot leftist talking points. Good Lord guys, try thinking for yourselves eh?
Could I mention that Gov Palins state of Alaska has NO PERSONAL INCOME TAX and NO SALES TAX. Compare that to the Peoples Republics of California and NY for example.
Oh, and as a RESIDENT OF ALASKA (and gay), I can say that Governor Palin has integrity, tenacity and is honest. Joe Biden can’t say the same.
If I recall correctly, it’s what the people voted for. It still sounds a lot nicer than the armpit you live in. NJ wishes it had a debt that small.
#5: “Exactly what are her accomplishments…”
Well, for starters, NJ Liberal, Sarah Palin doesn’t automatically accuse other people of being bigots for asking questions like, “what are her accomplishments?”
Goody. Maybe NJ Liberal can explain what Chairman Obama’s accomplishments are. I can’t find a liberal who can. Maybe we’ve hit the jackpot with NYL.
Meanwhile, maybe he can explain how raising taxes are the answer to everything, but just doesn’t seem to work in the failed states of NY, NJ, MI, CA etc.
I’m still waiting for a couple of State Sen Obamas accomplishments that make Governor Palin’s accomplishments pale in comparison…….crickets….any leftists wish to educate us…..crickets