OLD STORY, NEW WRINKLE
PART ONE: Hiding the wires

From Orcinus:

I was amused by the claims that George W. Bush wore a listening device under his jacket in the first two of his three debates with John Kerry, but recognized that, at the time, the evidence in the case was largely speculative. I was waiting to see if the press would do its job and investigate the matter thoroughly.

Turns out they did, according to a report from David Lindorff at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. Problem is, they didn't tell the public what they had uncovered: that Bush almost certainly did, in fact, use such a device.

And

The truth of the matter is that killing a story that could affect the outcome of the election simply because it could affect the outcome of the election is an abandonment of one's duties as a journalist dedicated to publishing the truth and adequately informing the public. It would be one thing if the evidence was indeed speculative; but the evidence presented by Nelson and the Times' other sources, in fact, was well past speculation. It was, in fact, highly substantive.

There's no other way of putting it: This is a gross dereliction of its Fourth Estate role as a public watchdog by the Times.

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The point isn’t just that Bush cheated in the debates: it’s that he cheated AND the “liberal” New York Times killed the story! I think it’s pretty clear at this point that:

1. The mainstream media are not at all liberal.

2. The mainstream media employ an entirely different standard for Democrats and liberals than they do for Republicans and conservatives (just compare this Bush thing, or the WMD story, or AWOL Bush, with all the lies being thrown about during the Clinton impeachment, lies that by and large have never been corrected by the news organizations that reported them in the first place).

And

3. Our President is a lying, cheating, criminal son of a bitch (everything I’ve heard about Barbara is that she is, indeed, a big huge bitch) who should be tarred and feathered, flogged, and left on the side of the highway in an orange jumpsuit wiping vomit off the gravel.

God bless America!

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