The pro-Democratic filter of the major media is now so blatant that the smart set at ABC News' The Note can just lay it out for all to see, and no one is naive enough to think it will change before election day. Here's just part of their list:
How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election:1. Glowingly profile Speaker-Inevitable Nancy Pelosi, with loving mentions of her grandmotherly steel (see last night's 60 Minutes), and fail to describe her as "ultra liberal" or "an extreme liberal," which would mirror the way Gingrich was painted twelve years ago.
2. Look at every attempt by the President to define the race on his terms as deluded and desperate; increasingly quote Republican strategists saying that the President is hurting the party whenever he enters the fray.
3. Refuse to join the daily morning Ken Mehlman-Rush Limbaugh conference calls, despite repeated invitations.
4. Imbue every Democratic candidate for whom Bill Clinton campaigns with a golden halo.
5. Paint groups that run ads or do turnout for Republican candidates as shadowy, extreme, corrupt, and illegitimate; describe their analogues on the left as valiant underdogs, part of a People's Army (with homage to Rich Lowry).
6. Care more about voter disenfranchisement than voter fraud.
7. Take every Republican quote expressing some trepidation about the outcome and banner it.
8. Drop any pretense of covering good news from Iraq (uhm&.) or good news about the economy, including some upcoming positive macro numbers (Quick, Note readers: name the current Secretary of the Treasury.).
9. Amplify Obama-mania as a metaphor for the Democratic Party being the party of excitement and the future.
No arguments here. Can the strategies by Mehlman and Rove succeed to beat the overwhelming bias by the media?
Posted by Alan at October 23, 2006 09:27 AM