http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2008/09/09/

I’d like to see something similarly as unfunny and vicious directed at Obama/Biden.

Can you imagine the widespread glee among MSM television and print “journalists” if Sarah Palin did *this* :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU

(Were either of those the famed incident when the teleprompter broke?)

If it had been Palin: What a thorough backwoods rube she would be! Clearly lacking experience and readiness to be anywhere near a national office! There wouldn’t be just a tingle running up their collective legs; their entire bodies would be vibrating with more emotion than a fan at a teeny-bopper concert.

Double standards, double standards.

THE MOST HATEFUL AD EVER?

Barack Obama’s thuggish campaign has exceeded itself with a Spanish-language ad that is dishonest at several levels. ABC’s Jake Tapper blows the whistle:

Sen. Barack Obama has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh.
As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator saying: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.”

The screen then shows these two quotes from Limbaugh:
“…stupid and unskilled Mexicans.”
–Rush Limbaugh
“You shut your mouth or you get out!”
–Rush Limbaugh

[...]
Limbaugh and McCain were opponents on the subject of immigration.

McCain’s stance on immigration, more than anything else, alienated him from his party’s conservative base, precisely because he put the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of a commitment to enforce our laws. [...]

In the mainstream media, the last week has been consumed by tut-tutting over the supposed “lies” perpetrated by two McCain ads–which, however, were inconveniently true. It will be interesting to see how liberal pundits react to what must be the most dishonest, racist and hateful campaign ad published in many years.

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Kudos to Jake Tapper at ABC! But you have to fear for him; he’s going to be marginalized the way John Stossel has been, for not toeing the required line.

It’s the double standard applied differently to McCain/Palin and Obama, that is always the most deeply troubling. There’s no possible innocent explanation.

Come’on, all you TV and print journalists, with all your so-called claims of objectivity. Prove your objectivity! Prove me wrong! Please, I’d love to be wrong.

Obama!

Media question of the day: What’s Black and white and Red all over?