Howard Kurtz, the host of the weekly CNN program Reliable
Sources, tweeted last Sunday: “I'm at CNN and about to ask whether the media
are piling on Romney.”
Well, duh. Is a school bus yellow? Of course, the media is
piling on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former
Massachusetts governor.
We are currently a witness to history. We are spectators to
a presidential election this November that still has all the hallmarks of
potentially being stolen by the media. We are witnessing a coup d’état by the
elite-progressive press, if you will.
“The weird ecstasy of the media-political complex at the
Democratic Party convention in Charlotte last month was the first sign that its
attachment to President Barack Obama, always fawning, had become morbid,” wrote
Michael Knox Beran in National Review Online on September 17.
“How
Republics Fall” – The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship
trivializes an election” – was called to my attention by political writer Steve
Berryman. It is an erudite, but scathing, review of the media’s active
participation in the presidential campaign.
“In spite of the anemic economy and a real unemployment rate
above 11 percent, the high priests of pontificating liberalism were giddy with
euphoria. The Democrats ‘put on a nearly flawless convention,’ Paul Begala
opined, and it was soon all but incontrovertibly established that, come
November, the president — beautiful, magical, and lovable as he was — would
vanquish his boring opponent.”
And then there is a story about overt media bias witnessed
by Maryland State Sen. Joe Getty (R., Carroll/Baltimore) at the Republican
National Convention in Tampa. Senator Getty communicated his first-person
witness to blatant media bias at a pre-election breakfast September 20, in
Westminster… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5361
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