Bozell: CNN Must Correct the Record and Apologize to Gov. Palin, National Review and Their Viewers.
ALEXANDRIA, VA -
Speaking today on
MSNBC's Morning Joe, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather noted
that the traditional media is largely ignoring Democratic Senator
and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden's alarming comment on
Sunday:
"...(M)ark my words,
within the next, first six months of this administration if we win,
you're gonna face a major international challenge, because they are
going to want to test him...."
Rather pointed out "... (C)ertainly if Sarah Palin had said this it would
be above the fold in most newspapers today... (I)f Sarah Palin had
said this, the newspapers would have jumped all over it and so would
have the major television outlets." Morning Joe
co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed with Rather's assessment, saying "I'm
seeing spotty media coverage."
Spotty
is an understatement. Last night, Rather's old network CBS never
mentioned Biden's assertion on his old show, the Evening News.
ABC's World News also failed to report it. NBC's Nightly
News did, but omitted the most volatile portion of his
statement, "(M)ark my words, within the next, first six months of
this administration if we win, you're gonna face a major
international challenge...."
Not
only was it not above the fold in the New York Times, it was
on Page A18 in paragraph eleven of a story headlined "Obama Briefly
Leaving Trail to See Ill Grandmother." The Washington Post
made brief mention of it on Page A4.
MRC President L. Brent Bozell, III:
"The
liberal media's silence on Sen. Biden's guarantee of a 'major
international challenge' in the 'first six months' of an Obama
administration is a crystal clear example of their horrendous
coverage throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign.
"It's
media bias so bad, even Dan Rather can see it. A Vice Presidential
candidate tells us to 'mark his words' that some enormous global
crisis will occur on their watch, and the liberal media either
intentionally omit it, skew their reporting to minimize it or bury
it deep in the inner recesses of their newspapers.
"Rather is right again about Gov. Palin. The liberal media have
gone into overdrive since Day One to smear her as a dolt, a 'Caribou
Barbie', yet here we have perpetual gaffe machine Sen. Biden
promising us an international catastrophe as a part of their
Administration's transition effort and the press reports nothing."
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