Noted over at PJ Tatler:
…That takes us back to the Abu Ghraib scandal, the detainee abuse nightmare the Bush Administration endured at the height of the Iraq War. The press had a proverbial field day covering it, and it formed a media template that lasted for months, if not years.
The New York Times featured the scandal on its front page 50-plus times.
Earlier this month, a few news outlets broke a similar story regarding U.S. troops abusing dead Afghanistan civilians. Drudge has been there all along, linking to the various stories breaking on the subject. It’s awful stuff, no doubt. But where is the wall to wall media coverage? The damning editorials? The round the clock reports that tie the material inextricably to the war effort at large and, naturally, to the president?
Hmm. Could it be that the person in the Oval Office affects how the media covers news like this?
Of course that is the case. If McCain had won in 2008 then this story of the “kill team” in Afghanistan would have been a gigantic media story…and liberals out there would have been holding press conferences, demanding Congressional investigations and, naturally, the liberal base would be out in force demonstrating against the President and the war.
Remember this – all the stuff you hear in MSM and liberal circles about any GOP President is only for one thing: to discredit that President with a mind towards replacing him with a Democrat at the earliest opportunity. Ever since Nixon crushed the liberal/MSM favorite in 1972, that has been the goal. All through the terms of Reagan as well as the elder and younger Bushes, the only thing the MSM did was work to advantage the Democrats…to help them get back in to power because to the MSM – as to all people on the left – having a Republican President is un-natural and wrong…something to be corrected by any means necessary as soon as possible.
And, of course, once a Democrat is back in then the goal of the MSM is to keep him there or, failing that, to at least ensure he’s replaced by another Democrat. Ever since January 20th, 2009, all the MSM has done is spin, spin and spin some more to make it better for Obama. Have you noticed that bad economic news is always “unexpected”? Of course its unexpected…can’t have bad news be expected. If its expected then it tends to indicate that those running the show are running it wrong. And, so, “unexpected”…just an odd thing which in no way affects the really positive signs we’re seeing so just keep supporting Obama and for you investors out there, BTFD.
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