March 06, 2007 07:17 PM UTC

Liberal Media? Not So Fast

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• by: Colorado Pols

So says Paul Campos at the Rocky Mountain News:

This weekend, I was asked to address the annual Colorado Young Democrats convention, regarding how the media frame political stories. Here is an edited version of what I said:
As young Democratic activists, it’s important to appreciate that you’re playing a game that’s in significant ways rigged against you. Republicans have engaged in several decades of nonstop whining about “liberal media bias,” to the point where, ironically enough, the media let Republicans get away with things that would instantly destroy any Democrat.

A perfect example is provided by this morning’s New York Times. It has a front-page story about the Conservative Political Action Conference, at which various Republican presidential candidates gave speeches. The story notes the conference “drew thousands of attendees, many of whom waited in a long line out the door for an appearance by Ann Coulter.”

What the story fails to mention is that, during her speech, Coulter called Sen. John Edwards a “faggot.” This is standard stuff from Coulter, who in July called former Vice President Al Gore a “total fag” on national TV. Now consider that earlier in the day at this same conference, leading Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney told the audience, “I’m happy to learn also that after you hear me, you’re going to \[hear] from Ann Coulter. That is a good thing. Oh yeah!”…

…Coulter calls John Edwards a faggot on national TV, at the same podium from which Mitt Romney had just told the world how much he loves Coulter, and the result is that, rather than being shunned by every decent human being on the planet – or at least by people who would like to be elected president – Coulter is immediately invited on to CNN to discuss her views further.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is your “liberal media” in action.