Wednesday, August 06, 2008
"(John) Kerry, too, was the media darling"
Lest we forget; we've been down this road before.
"It's not over, 'til it's over" - Yogi Berra...
"It's not over, 'til it's over" - Yogi Berra...
At TorontoSun.com, Salim Mansur reminds us:
"During a CNN weekly gathering of Washington-based television pundits in July 2004, Evan Thomas candidly noted in referring to biased reporting that the mainstream media wanted Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for president, to win.
Thomas discussed how the media would portray Kerry and his running-mate, John Edwards, as 'young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there's going to be this glow about them that is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them ... maybe 15 points.'
Thomas was the assistant managing editor for Newsweek magazine, owned by the Washington Post Co., and he was speaking as an epitome of a major media insider.
Less than eight weeks before the November vote, with the mainstream media firmly in Kerry's corner, Dan Rather -- then the news anchor for CBS evening news -- dished out the fraudulent story on President George W. Bush shirking his duties while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.
Despite all that, Americans gave a second-term to the sitting president."
