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Oh, That Biased Media

September 6, 2009 - 11:39 am - by Stephen Green

John Hinderaker on the New York Times:

Mark Steyn mentions Barack Obama and Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-Il in adjoining sentences: it’s news! A senior government official says America deserved to be attacked on September 11; the September 11 attacks were orchestrated by the federal government; he wants to destroy the free enterprise system; white environmentalists and polluters steer poisons into minority communities; Republicans oppose President Obama’s policies because they are “a******s;” Israel has been illicitly “occupying” Arab lands since 1948–I know, it’s only a partial list–it’s not news!

Unmentioned: Van Jones was too “controversial” to work in the White House, but not controversial enough for the NYT to mention the story until it was over. Is that setting the bar too low or too high? Or just getting rid of the bar altogether?

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3 Comments, 3 Threads

  1. 1. NukemHill

    I don’t know. It sounds like they’ve been spending entirely too much time at the bar. They get all of their news in liquid form.

    NTTAWWT….

    September 6, 2009 - 11:59 am   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. jaymaster

    Getting rid of the bar altogether?!?!?

    Now them’s fightin words!

    They can have my bar when they pry it from my cold, shaky hands….

    September 6, 2009 - 12:19 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Silicon Valley Jim

    It’s being covered now. Here’s some coverage from about forty miles from here, in Pyongyang-by-the-Bay:

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/07/MNT319JJCF.DTL&tsp=1

    September 7, 2009 - 8:20 am   Link to this Comment