Jeffrey Lord, at newsbusters.org, has written an excellent piece showing the difference between how our media – our serially fawning media – continue to kiss Hillary Clinton\’s ring.
I urge you to click here and read it all. Or, you can downsize to these two paragraphs, in which Mr. Lord compares Ms. Clinton\’s treatment to that of just about every possible opponent:
The entire field of Republican presidential candidates? A field that includes governors and former governors, U.S. senators, a former U.S. senator, a world famous surgeon (who happens to be black) and two business executives (one of the latter a woman)? A field that between all of its members have serious experience in just about every area of practical concern to a president? The liberal media hates them all. They are, to string the criticisms together: arrogant, ignorant, afraid of controversy, flub, gaffe and scandal prone, bigoted, sexist, and, but of course, racist and homophobic. And don\’t forget they have lousy poll numbers.
Compare the treatment of any one of these Republicans with Hillary and it is stunning. For that matter, compare the treatment of Republicans who once ran for president to the treatment of Hillary, who will be 68 on inauguration day. The treatment of the 68 year old Ronald Reagan, the 72 year old Bob Dole and the 71 year old John McCain was radically different. As Noah Rothman points out over at Hot Air uniformly all three Republicans were treated as wheezing old geezers whose age alone should disqualify them for the White House. Here, for just one example, is a Time magazine cover of Dole asking: Is Dole Too Old for the Job? Time insisted “the age issue won’t fade away.” Ironically, President Clinton\’s campaign agreed, as Rothman also points out, noting the New York Times reported that “A new Democratic Party television commercial takes a not-too-subtle swipe at Senator Bob Dole, age 72.” Did Mrs. Clinton agree with that commercial on behalf of her husband? We don\’t know because she (hasn\’t) been asked by reporters.
Are there breaks in the wall of protection media have put up for their annointed Goddess Of The Presidency? Yes there are. Not as many as there should be, not by a long stretch. But they do exist.
May those breaks continue to grow. May media, this time around, make a serious effort to give us honest reporting – coverage of the bad as well as the good – so that we have evenhanded information to make our decisions on, not campaign propaganda posing as information.
We have been given little reason to believe this will happen. But we can hope.
Let\’s.
