Real bias
“Barack Obama has a racial problem, but it’s not what the media thinks — it’s not rednecks, older voters, or even women offended by attacks on Hillary Clinton. Obama’s racial problem is white liberals.
“A central tenet of modern liberalism, after all, is the unshakeable conviction that white America is deeply and irredeemably racist. For three decades, America’s white liberals have invested in the belief that America is so incapable of racial fairness that society needs a panoply of laws, preferences, quotas, set-asides, and remedial programs to ensure that black people are treated fairly.
“All of those policies are fundamentally based on the belief that America is deeply racist, that their fellow Americans are personally biased and institutionally prejudiced — consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and structurally; racist in history and practice.
“It follows that many race-holding liberals will be among the last to believe that America will ever elect an African-American as president.
“White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: If they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.”
— Charles J. Sykes, writing on “Barack Obama’s Race Problem: White Liberals,” Tuesday at AmericanThinker.com
Leftist bin Laden?
“On Sunday, news outlets reported that far-left billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute provided roughly half the funding of a study that accused the United States and its allies of killing 650,000 Iraqis over the last three years. When the report first surfaced shortly before the 2006 midterm elections, tens of thousands of news organizations — including CNN, NPR, the London Telegraph and Al-Jazeera — accorded it front-page coverage. It also provided a welcome undergirding for Osama bin Laden’s anti-American propaganda.
“Osama’s increasingly leftist rhetoric came to its apex in a speech released on Sept. 7, 2007, in which he praised Noam Chomsky as ’among the most capable of those from your own side.’ ”
— Ben Johnson, writing on “Soros Underwrites Osama’s Talking Points,” Tuesday at FrontPageMagazine.com
Shilling Hillary
“When I saw Hillary Clinton at Yearly Kos she took credit for co-creating Media Matters for America … [a liberal group] that catalogs mean right-wingers and dippy pundits saying bad things about Democrats. …
“So we’re … into a new debate, and the big Democratic story has been whether the Clintons and surrogates have been playing subtle games with Barack Obama’s race and long-admitted youthful drug use, and how Obama [has] responded. The big Republican story is John McCain’s comeback, abetted by pundits and editorial pages fibbing or fudging on his record. And the big Media Matters coverage is of … people being mean to Hillary Clinton.
“My instinct is to say this is good for the Clintons, but the uptick in HRC shilling seems to correspond with a downturn in traffic. Media watchdog groups and bloggers get more oomph when they promote statements that everyone else missed … than when they blubber about cable TV hosts.”
— David Weigel, writing on “The Brilliance of the Clintons, Cont’d,” Tuesday at Reason.com
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