THAT OBJECTIVE MEDIA

Looking at today’s Washington Post, I couldn’t help but be slapped in the face with the ole’ “Liberal Media Bias”. Check out this story by Tina Brown filed under “Other News” in the Politics section:

“Taking the GOP Bait, Hook, Line and Stinker”

This “news” story is all about the evil Republicans picking on poor John Kerry. We get such in-depth reporting and unbiased writing as:

“The Republican attack machine -- again -- has made the right calculation: Hit 'em with trivia. Bait the hook with the absurd "issue" of whether it was medals or ribbons that Kerry hurled over the wall when he was a 27-year-old hothead. Then watch the media bite -- they'll do it every time -- and let Kerry rise to it and blow it. Presto, a thrice-wounded, decorated war hero running against a president who went missing from the National Guard is suddenly muddying up his own record on the morning talk shows. Shades of 2000, when Bush jokily bowled oranges down the aisle of his campaign plane while Gore argued about whether he did or didn't say he invented the Internet.”

Yeah, real objective. In one paragraph we hear about the "incessant Republican attack machine”, how Kerry is a decorated war hero and the President “went missing” from the National Guard.