The Liberal Media coverage of the Weiner scandal.. the new "Pravda" at work?

Oops.

There is no such thing as perfection in politics.

History abounds with so-called "God fearing" Christian conservatives getting caught trolling public washrooms for gay sex, getting caught in dalliances with prostitutes, and the like.

So, my comments today should be taken in that vein.  We're all in glass houses to some extent.

However.

There is something special about watching the abject hypocrisy and rank lies of high-profile democrats like Anthony Weiner, and then the scurrying around by good "journalists" like Jeffrey Toobin and CNN (more on him, perhaps, later) seeking to make sure that we question NOT the liberal politician who has lied and mislead the public and, sadly, his wife about carrying on a childish and offensive twitter exchange where he was sending lewd pictures of himself to a young women only known by him via her twitter account.

According to Jeffrey Toobin, the crime was not the acts that we all now know Weiner was involved with - but the fact that CNN reported it, and gave face time to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart:



Why is it that the only lawyers that CNN can attract to their so-called, "most trusted name in news" are shrill stupid talking heads like Jeffrey Toobin and Nancy Grace?

The story in the Weiner case isn't what Weiner did.. it's THE STORY.

The refusal many in the mainstream media to challenge Weiner and instead challenging the messenger.

Statistics have clearly established the gross inequity in the financial political support for liberal politicians by the mainstream media in the United States.

As referenced in the L.A. Times in a review of Federal political donation records, of journalists making policital donations, 235 donated to the Democratic Party and only 20 made donations to the Republicans.  That's something in excess of 92% of journalists evidencing a financial commitment to supporting liberal policies as opposed to conservative policies.

MSNBC itself, acknoweldged darling of the progressive left, did a similar study, as also referenced in the L.A. Times article above, and they found similar numbers, with over 87% of journalists supporting liberals over conservatives.

And yet they complain when one network has supported a conservative point of view.

So then, it is no surprise when we find that the Weiner story currently dominating the news did not come from CNN, or MSNBC, or the Washington Post - it came from a blogger.

And after being broke, many talking liberal heads like Jeffrey Toobin did their best to distract the media from THE STORY, to the messenger who broke the story.

What Weiner did was stupid.  But, at it's core, it's just another stupid politician caught with his, uh... hand in the cookie jar.

The real concern should be asking ourselves to what extent the conversion of the media from the fourth estate to a bunch of liberal political shills is preventing the public from being able to make reasoned decisions respecting their politicians at election time.

Are we approaching a strange time where the so-called "independent" media while not under control of a fascist dictatorship has, nonetheless, become little more than mouthpieces of progressive propaganda?  A western equivalent of Soviet controlled Pravda?

(Note: not one "wiener" pun)