More Double Standards: The Press Protects (?) Its Own…

Do you remember the fuss that was kicked up when George W Bush got a critic with the White House press office replaced (by a blogger, if memory serves me correctly)?

Well, Barack Obama, aka the healer of the divides, isn't even president yet, and he already got three newspapers lobbed off the Democrats' airplane.

And of course, the mainstream media which went berserk regarding the Bush decision, crying censorship and imperial presidency and so on, is hardly saying a word…

Read (merci, François) Victor Davis Hanson's The End of Journalism for Obama’s advocacy for a share-the-wealth socialism and other central issues…

Imagine the reaction of the New York Times or the Washington Post had John McCain renounced his promise to participate in public campaign financing, proceeded instead to amass $600 million and outraise the publicly financed Barack Obama four-to-one, and begun airing special 30-minute unanswered infomercials during the last week of the campaign…

Imagine the reaction of Newsweek or Time had moose-hunting mom Sarah Palin claimed FDR went on television to address the nation as President in 1929, or warned America that our enemies abroad would test John McCain and that his response would result in a radical loss of his popularity at home…

Imagine the reaction of CNN or NBC had John McCain’s pastor and spiritual advisor of 20 years been revealed as a white supremacist who damned a multiracial United States, or had he been a close acquaintance until 2005 of an unrepentant terrorist bomber of abortion clinics, or had McCain himself sued to eliminate congressional opponents by challenging the validity of African-American voters who signed petitions, or had both his primary and general election senatorial rivals imploded once their sealed divorce records were mysteriously leaked…