Media Admits Bias: Rain is Also Wet

Well, the ombudsman of the Washington Post got around to admitting, there was, you know, a kind of bias in their coverage of the race for President. And it wasn't for Senator McCain:

The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.

This mea culpa comes a little late in the day, wouldn't you say? There's so much more a principled person would have to say about that bias. For instance, take a look at how many front page photos of the criminally unqualified Mr. Obama featured backlighting, which created a halo effect (he’s Obama the angelic), as compared to the many photos of Mr. McCain which emphasized his age.

So, in this completely useless spasm of honesty, the Ombudsman is merely joining the rest of us who knew the emperor had no clothes, and who also knew that much of the press were his obedient couriers, following the time-honored Joseph Goebbels Big Lie principle, repeating only what they wanted us to know.

(Quick historical note: Joseph Goebbels was the Propoganda Minister of the Nazi Party. A concept that has been attributed to him goes like this: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Simply substitue the word "Press" for the word "State" above, and you have a perfect example of what happening during this past election.)

My goodness, how much time did that paper (and others) spend on Ms. Palin’s time in Alaska, her college efforts, her family…yet no one had the time to ask about Mr. Obama’s many gaps in his resume, including his undergraduate experience and his failed work on education with the Annaberg Foundation in Chicago.

Shame on them all for the damage they have done to our nation and our democracy.