Media dishonesty worse than the bias

Roger L. Simon:

I am not one of those who thinks unlawful donations like those from Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunt Zeituni Onyango (now being returned) constitute a a significant proportion of the candidate’s immense money pile. But what is significant is that we are learning about this - and other examples of donation malfeasance like credit card fraud - so late in the game. Add to this the LAT is still pocketing the Khalidi tape, not even publishing, as yet, a transcript and we have a pattern we have all known about for some time: extreme media bias in favor of Obama. It’s even been the subject of Saturday Night Live skits.

But bias, bad as it may be, is not the real problem. Everybody has a bias. We all know that. It’s when bias creates dishonesty that the dry rot sets in. The media has been essentially dishonest in its non-investigation of Obama for what now is several years. With all their vast resources, they have given us virtually no reportage on his years at Harvard and Columbia and he is about to become President of the United States.

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The media has been consistently incurious about Obama while at the same time voraciously looking for materiel for their dismissive paragraphs about Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Certainly its fair to look into Palin's record, but it is not fair to distort that record the way the AP has with its story about the natural gas pipeline. It was grossly unfair to invade Joe the Plumbers privacy simply because Obama blew an answer to his question.

Their lack of curiosity about Obama is going to comeback to haunt them if he is elected.

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