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October 21, 2008
Dan Rather points out media double standard
Had Palin made Joe Biden’s gaffe, Rather notes, the mainstream press would on it like NYT reporters on a Trig Palin diaper. Video here: In related news, Hell freezes over — and Madonna trades in her spiked nipple cups for a nice, age-appropriate Martha Stewart pant suit. (h/t STACLU; see also, the New York Post) 28 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=13485 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by Trimegistus on 10/21 @ 1:02 pm #
So: are they finally rediscovering some tattered bits of integrity stuck to their shoes? Or have they seen some internal polling which suggests the Messiah might not triumph, and are trying to un-burn their bridges?
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 10/21 @ 1:02 pm #
How blatant does it have to be, when Mr “Fake but accurate” weighs in against the MSM, re: bias?
Comment by ProfShade on 10/21 @ 1:22 pm #
Invite Dan to guest blog over at the pub, Jeff.
Comment by dicentra on 10/21 @ 1:28 pm #
So that’s what smashed into the side of the building a while ago: a flying pig, unaccustomed to his new mode of transport, soared into a wall on his first sally.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/21 @ 1:32 pm #
Gunga Dan seems to have failed to move to the left at warp speed these past four years, and thus now finds himself to the right of 90% of the rest of the MSM.
Comment by kelly on 10/21 @ 2:01 pm #
Courage.
Comment by McGehee on 10/21 @ 2:01 pm #
You’re all wrong. Dan’s doctors have finally hit upon a combination of medications that restores lucidity long enough to get through a live on-camera interview.
The only downside is, after it wears off he’s only fit to run through a maze for some cheese.
Comment by dicentra on 10/21 @ 3:35 pm #
Perhaps Mr Superscript has had a few hefty servings of humble pie and now gets the consequences for blind bias.
Or not. McGehee’s explanation is more likely.
Say, does this blog take superscript? Dan Rather?
I’ve missed that…
Comment by dicentra on 10/21 @ 3:35 pm #
Rats. No super tags…
Oh well.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/21 @ 3:40 pm #
O3?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/21 @ 4:17 pm #
Captain Courage spots the obvious.
I guess he really is a great investigative reporter when compared to the rest of them.
Comment by David on 10/21 @ 7:13 pm #
At least Biden speaks in coherent, complete sentences… Palin, off script, does not.
Shouldn’t that be a minimum requirement for a VP, to speak in coherent, complete sentences?
Comment by Sdferr on 10/21 @ 7:17 pm #
Coherent complete sentences attributed to Biden, though they be without any factual content whatsoever. Nice. That is the ticket, after all. And Obama without a telepromter filled with David Axelrod’s words, just words? A hemming and hawing mock of a stoogery, not an especially inspiring fellow, he.
So stick your vision of minimum requirements where the sun don’t shine, won’t you please?
Comment by David on 10/21 @ 7:55 pm #
Sarah can’t even do serious press interviews.
But she’s a flaming right wingnut.
Good enough, yes?
Oh wait, she was on SNL… that counts.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/21 @ 7:59 pm #
David, I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Comment by David on 10/21 @ 8:00 pm #
Guess that there is a downside for using your children as props:
AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids’ travel
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.
In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters’ 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.
But, but… she’s got great hair!
Comment by David on 10/21 @ 8:01 pm #
Sarah wants to be the Washington reformer.
BULLSHIT.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/21 @ 8:03 pm #
And David wants to be banned, I’m thinking.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/21 @ 8:05 pm #
David wants to save the world from Sarah Palin. What a noble endeavor David! Do carry on as though you are succeeding. Your light will shine before the knowing anointed.
Comment by David on 10/21 @ 8:07 pm #
RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion
By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 10/21/08 7:47 PM EDT
Sarah Palin, in a red leather jacket, waves as she steps on stage before a crowd at a baseball field in Grand Junction, Colo., on Monday.
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The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
But, but she’s one of US!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/21 @ 8:08 pm #
David is a copy-paste bot.
Comment by Sdferr on 10/21 @ 8:09 pm #
But such a noble copy-paste bot, SBP! A savior even.
Comment by Ana on 10/21 @ 8:36 pm #
But we have Trollhammer! (Yes, we do.)
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/21 @ 8:42 pm #
Oh, what for? In a few weeks, he’ll be ranting incoherently about our stubborn wingnut refusal to accept and agree with the knowledge he’s dropping, and then Jeff or someone else will boar him a new one, and he’ll sulk off to firedoglake or whatever rock he crawled from, to return periodically, like wheat rust and gout, to bother us.
Banning? Shit, he fits the decor just fine.
Comment by NewEnglandDevil on 10/21 @ 9:37 pm #
You guys all missed the best line of all from Gunga “Courage” Dan: “…but let me point out that what happens on the internet may be as important or more important than what’s happening in the newspapers…”
No, ya think? :) LMAO.
Comment by Jim Treacher on 10/21 @ 11:23 pm #
“At least Biden speaks in coherent, complete sentences…”
Well, that’s his two-letter word: j-o-b.
Comment by E.W. on 10/21 @ 11:34 pm #
Are we just now figuring out that the media is horrible skewed toward the leftist illuminati? Is this really “news” at all. Of course is the right winged Palin would have said this every paper and web site would have been all over it. i do thing the internet brings some balance to the conversation, which is what Dan was getting but in general the media is leans just as far left as the Obama campaign.
Comment by McGehee on 10/22 @ 10:12 am #
What’s going on with people suddenly discovering the word “illuminati” for their comments? I had two signups (I suspect from the same person despite different IPs) on my site resulting in multiple comments within minutes, all repeating the “I” word like a madness mantra.
I’d be really interested to know what moby group got that talking-points fax.