This is rich. The Politico writers admit their clear and unprofessional reporting bias — against John McCain and in favor of Barack Obama — but you see, it’s all McCain’s fault!
OK, let’s just get this over with: Yes, in the closing weeks of this election, John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting hosed in the press, and at Politico.
And, yes, based on a combined 35 years in the news business we’d take an educated guess — nothing so scientific as a Pew study — that Obama will win the votes of probably 80 percent or more of journalists covering the 2008 election. Most political journalists we know are centrists — instinctually skeptical of ideological zealotry — but with at least a mild liberal tilt to their thinking, particularly on social issues… As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own.
Oh, that’s all better then. The fact that months of negative and blatant slanted press against McCain might have produced a very difficult uphill battle for him to win the presidency never occurs to the geniuses at Politico (or the alphabet soup network media for that matter).
Hey, speaking of media bias, how’s this grab ya!: “John McCain’s campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003.”
Really? The LA Times won’t even release it? Why not, if it’s not harmful to Barack? Wonder what Barack said at that party? Anything n-e-w-s-w-o-r-t-h-y there? Maybe. Maybe nothing. But we’ll never know, because the media will be too busy giving Barack Obama a lap dance for the next week.