Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:47:37 AM
Another letter to the editors of the Harrisburg Patriot-News:
For years, conservatives have been complaining that the main stream media (MSM), over 90% of whose reporters admit to being registered Democrats, slants the news to be favorable to liberal causes. This slant can take the form of using positive descriptions of liberal policy initiatives and negative ones to describe conservative causes, or it can be playing up positive results due to liberal policies (however few those may be) while downplaying their disasters (which are many) and vice versa for conservative initiatives.
I've seen many examples of all these, but in Thursday's Patriot-News, I saw another outstanding example of the latter phenomenon: downplaying what can at the very least be described as extremely poor judgment on the part of the nation's leading liberal, Barack Obama. Obama's beloved pastor of over 20 years, the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, was quoted as saying that Obama hasn't talked to him since their "relationship" was "severed" but that currently, "Them Jews [sic] aren't going to let him talk to me." So it seems that "Rev." Wright's affinity for Louis Farrakhan hasn't lessened any, and it appears that neither has his affinity for Barack Obama.
The Patriot-News wasn't the only MSM organ to ignore this story; I didn't see it anywhere else, either. If one of John McCain's close associates had made such a statement, you can bet at least some of the media would have given it some coverage. When the President of the U.S. exercises such poor judgment (at least, if not more than that), it's news, because who knows in what other arenas he's using poor judgment. And poor judgment on the part of the President can be extremely harmful to this nation. Come on, MSM, let's play fair.